Monthly Archives for January 2010
Wayne Cordeiro, Leading on Empty
Pastoral leadership can be draining work. Burnout is a real danger. I’m only a few chapters into Wayne Cordeiro’s new book, Leading On Empty: Refilling Your Tank and Renewing Your Passion, and I already commend this book to any church … Continue reading
99 Balloons
99 Balloons from Igniter Media on Vimeo. Eliot was born with an undeveloped lung, a heart with a hole in it and DNA that placed faulty information into each and every cell of his body. However, that could not stop … Continue reading
We Never Outgrow Scripture
Nobody ever outgrows Scripture; the Book widens and deepens with our years. -Charles Spurgeon
Discerning Your Vocation
Poet W.H. Auden reminds us that discerning your vocation is simpler than you think. Chase what gives you “that eye-on-the-object look.” You need not see what someone is doing to know if it is his vocation, you have only to … Continue reading
Five Dangerous Things You Should Let Your Children Do
Watch Gever Tulley’s 2007 TED Talk: Five Dangerous Things You Should Let Your Children Do. I’ve haven’t read it yet, but I will soon read Tulley’s new book, Fifty Dangerous Things (You Should Let Your Children Do). Fathers, join me. … Continue reading
Much Higher Learning
Each time I receive a new issue of World magazine, the first thing I do is flip to the back to read Andree Seu’s column. I appreciate many of the thoughts in her most recent piece, Much Higher Learning: A … Continue reading
Mark Driscoll on Learning from the Past
Mark Driscoll reflects on 14 years of leading Mars Hill Church, and what he would’ve done differently.
Perspective on Haiti
The best biblical analysis I’ve read on Haiti comes from Al Mohler: A faithful Christian cannot accept the claim that God is a bystander in world events. The Bible clearly claims the sovereign rule of God over all his creation, … Continue reading
Four Years of Hell on Earth; Breakthrough
Oswald Chambers’ biography is continuing to minister to me. (Todd, thanks for encouraging me to read it). When Chambers was in his mid-twenties he went through a season he described as “four years of hell on earth.” Chambers wrote, “for … Continue reading
CPC Men’s Retreat: Tullian
As always, I’m looking forward to our church Men’s Retreat. This year we have Tullian Tchividjian as our speaker. Good times will be had by all.