As a congregant you have a significant role to play in helping your preacher preach better. In the last post, we talked a little about time and the effect lack of time can have on sermon preparation. Think about this: After Seinfeld went off television, Jerry Seinfeld decided to retire all his old stand-up material [...]
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Help Your Preacher Preach Better #2
Posted: August 5, 2010 in change, church, family, friends, leadership, life, ministry, Missional Church, prayer, preaching, productivity, speakingTiger’s Big Swing
Posted: December 8, 2009 in family, fatherhood, friends, golf, humility, life, priorities, sportsTiger Woods may have attended Stanford, but the past two weeks have proven how stupid he really is. I like Tiger Woods and believe him to be the greatest golfer of all time, whether he tracks down Jack Nicklaus’ record of 18 professional Majors or not. Tiger is the best at what he does, but [...]
Why I Twitter (and you should too).
Posted: August 12, 2009 in blogs, church, friends, leadership, ministry, news, reading, Twitter, updates, writingI’ve had a hard time convincing my wife and others like her why I Twitter. “Why do you use twitter? What’s the point? Isn’t Twitter just another in long line of mouthpieces for self-obsessed people with delusions of grandeur? Don’t people just post inane information about themselves in the vacant hope that someone will care?” [...]
Loving Is Coming
Posted: May 21, 2009 in advocacy, authentically black, church, equality, family, friends, history, kids, life, Missional Church, politics, race relationsWe’re in a season of celebrating at my house. The reason? Rochelle and I decided a few weeks ago that life was too short not to live with great joy! Plus, we realized that there is much to celebrate in life (and my mom bought me a sweet grill). One of our upcoming celebrations will [...]
Hebrews: Ancient Encouragement for Believers Today, by Edward Fudge (Leafwood Publishers, 262 pages, Expected Release: April/May 2009). Mention the Book of Hebrews and many Christians start to yawn or even to nod. Mention commentaries, and they practically begin to snore. One would think, therefore, that a commentary on Hebrews would leave them out cold on [...]
Vote for my friend Tquan’s song here: http://www.conversantlife.com/ucontent/dont-stop-praising. Tquan is a great, emerging Christian recording artist and an even better person. So, go and vote for his song, “Don’t Stop Praising” Go ahead, you know you want to.





