For a couple of hours every Thursday morning over the last eight months, fifteen or so of our staff and lay leaders have gathered to study Wayne Grudem’s Systematic Theology together. It’s really a glorified book club where we discuss our reading assignments each week (okay, there’s a little teaching here and there. I’m sorry, [...]
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This past weekend I attended a conference in Austin. Like most evangelical events, the speakers were popular authors or pastors (or both) who shared with the masses their stories, learnings and convictions. And like most evangelical conferences, there were those who were somewhat star-struck by the speakers. And why shouldn’t they be? Many of them [...]
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Dustin Neeley is a pastor from Louisville, Kentucky, and the brains behind the blog Church Planting for the Rest of Us. He also writes for The Resurgence, a well-known blog that intersects with the ministry of Mark Driscoll and other pastors in the Acts 29 Network. Dustin was kind enough to interview Bruce Wesley and [...]
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“When Christ who is your life appears…” – Colossians 3:4 I have a Facebook page, Twitter account and a blog. As a pastor, that doesn’t just make me connected or simply in touch with the tech-savvy culture around me, it also makes me dangerous. “To whom?” you might ask. Me. For one reason or another, [...]
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Lord, keep me from pastors; who want their ministries to be about themselves, who focus on numerical growth at the expense of spiritual growth, who consult from ego not experience, who let other pastors do their thinking (and believing) for them, who equate leadership with attending conferences instead of…leading, who stay at churches with the [...]
