800 Million People
Admiral William H. McRaven, ninth commander of U.S. Special Operations Command, gave a commencement speech at the University of Texas at Austin on May 17. It’s definitely worth reading or watching.
Christian Living
You Can’t Quit This
I told someone the other day that I’m discouraged as a church planter less than 10% of the time, which, it turns out, isn’t a bad ratio. But sometimes in that
The Tenets of Post-Christian Spirituality
Derek L. Worthington describes the three tenets of post-Christian spirituality in his book The Call of Jesus:
* a distant God — remote, detached, and uninvolved with our lives;
* “me” as a functional god,
The Slow, Hard Work of Making Disciples
I’ve been thinking a lot about what Paul wrote in 2 Timothy 2:1-7:
You then, my child, be strengthened by the grace that is in Christ Jesus, and what you
Fall to the Ground
I attended a conference years ago that changed my life, just not the way that it was supposed to. The conference was on creating a turnaround church. Shortly afterwards, I attended another conference