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I’m at Dad’s Place working with Dean Cirelli, the world-famous author of Riding with the King. He had a fantastic post the other day that you’ve got to check out. If any of you are interested in receiving your own…
Update: The $5 sale has been extended through noon, June 29! Every book in the Desiring God store will be $5 THROUGH JUNE 29. Since John Piper is probably one of my all-time favorite Christian writers and theologians, you know…
The Fearsome Pirate has a great post about why your community may not be involved in your church… It’s just, well, boring. And trite. And everything you touch is mediocre. If you say you believe in a glorious God, then…
The Power of Team Leadership: Achieving Success Through Shared Responsibility (Barna Reports) by George Barna All I can really say is… “Yawn.” Barna simply writes too many books. This is probably way too unfair, but anyone who writes as many…
Derek over at Waiting in Athens has a powerfully short blog entry related to what excuses we offer to God for not following him. Here they are: God hasn’t spoken to me directly. This dangerous excuse has many forms, including:…
Stardust by Neil Gaiman I had high hopes for Stardust after Mark Wegley recommended it to me. I don’t know if it was my mood or just my expectations that caused this book to simply fall flat. I’ll give it…
Justin Taylor said this at the recent Na Conference in response to why it’s important to read and study perspectives from before our own time: I think if we try to–to use Na’s term–“reinvent the wheel”, if we try to…
We got back this afternoon around 4:00 from our weekend at Beech Springs Baptist Camp near El Dorado. It was a fantastically relaxing weekend spent with some of our dearest friends – our Journey Church family. This was our second…
Ouch, ouch, and ha! That was my reaction to reading a recent diatribe about church growth from one website. His initial thought was: If church sucks, people don’t invite others. They don’t think “Man, my friends have got to be…
