How we Live
“Humans are alive for the purpose of journey, a kind of three-act structure. They are born and spend several years discovering themselves and the world, then plod through a long middle in which they...
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Unbelievable night tonight Revolution to church to the city tonight and served our city through HalloWiin Revolution 2009 at Lincoln Park We had over 600 people come through Awesome I am blown away...
View ArticleA Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing my Life
Just finished A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing my Life by Donald Miller and I have to say right off the bat. This might be the best book I have read all year....
View ArticleWhat Story is Your Family Writing
In his book A Million Miles in a Thousand Years, Donald Miller talks about the idea that all of us are writing a story with our lives and that families write a story as a family. It got me to think...
View ArticleLinks to Kick off the Week
Audio from the main sessions of Acts 29 recent boot camp in Louisville. The theme was centered around Ambition. Winfield Bevins on Letting God speak to you. For many of us, the reason we don’t hear...
View ArticleTop Posts of November ’09
In case you missed them, here are the top posts of November 2009: Things I’m Excited about this Holiday Season A Million Miles in a Thousand Years 90 Day Tithing Challenge “I Don’t Have Enough Money”...
View ArticleAn Inciting Incident (The Thing that Kicked Your Life into Gear)
Last night was our Christmas Eve service. One of the things I talked about came from the book A Million Miles in a Thousand Years by Donald Miller where talks about what he calls “An inciting...
View ArticleSaturday Night Mind Dump…
Been a great week Hectic, but great Great Revolutionary Christmas on Christmas Eve Finished up our series on the sermon on the mount tonight It was really great spending the fall in those 3 important...
View ArticleFavorite Books of 2009
I’m a reader. Period. I always have 3 – 5 books going at a time. Everything from sermon prep, leadership, parenting, marriage, church history, spirituality, novels and anything else I’m interested in....
View ArticleLinks of the Week
Stop hatin’ on other pastors & ministries. This is right on (for the most part). The only discrepency I have with Scott is when a pastor is leading people into heresy. You need to call that out,...
View ArticleFrustrating (or Sad)
Every pastor has one message that flows through every sermon. It does not matter what passage they are preaching, at some point, they will get around to their core message. In every sermon. For me, it...
View ArticleLots of Cheap Kindle Books 4.18.12
There are a ton of great kindle books for cheap today: $2.99 It: How Churches & Leaders Get It and Keep It by Craig Groeschel Barefoot Church: Serving the Least in a Consumer Culture by Brandon...
View ArticleLinks I Like
Links I Like is a collection of blogs, articles and books I’ve come across recently and thought they were worth sharing. Click here for past Links I Like. What John Maxwell is reading. If you want to...
View ArticlePreach Better Sermons || Donald Miller
I’m watching the online conference Preach Better Sermons today and wanted to share some of the learnings I picked up. One of the speakers is Donald Miller. Donald is the founder of Storyline, an...
View ArticleMy Notes from Preach Better Sermons
In case you missed them today, here are all my notes from today’s online preaching conference, Preach Better Sermons: Steven Furtick The whole worship service is one thing, not separate parts, it is...
View ArticleTuesday Morning Book Review || The In-Between
Every Tuesday morning, I review a book that I read recently. If you missed any, you can read past reviews here. This week’s book is The In-Between: Embracing the Tension Between Now and the Next Big...
View ArticleLinks I Like
Links I Like is a collection of blogs, articles and books I’ve come across recently and thought they were worth sharing. Click here for past Links I Like. Ed Stetzer on Has Dr. King’s dream come true?...
View ArticleCheap Kindle Books [12.9.13]
Here are some cheap kindle books. Not sure how long they’ll stay that way: The Explicit Gospel by Matt Chandler ($2.99) Creature of the Word: The Jesus-Centered Church by Matt Chandler ($3.71) Rhythms...
View ArticleLinks for Your Weekend Reading
Links I Like is a collection of blogs, articles and books I’ve come across recently and thought they were worth sharing. Click here for past Links I Like. Thom Rainer on 4 times when you should not...
View ArticleLinks for Your Weekend Reading
Kevin DeYoung on The importance of simplicity in preaching. If the choice is preaching in such a way as to be thought intellectually and rhetorically impressive or preaching in a manner as to be...
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