One of the truths in ministry I’ve been reminding myself lately is that I need to be about the business of converting the converted. Granted, I can’t give life to anyone’s heart and enable them to turn to the living Christ. Only God’s Spirit can accomplish that endeavor. But when I speak of converting of [...]
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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A good pastor may or may not:
Know all the best new music from the hippest indie bands
Forward wonderful quotes about God written by other pastors
Have a great grasp of the latest buzzwords like “gospel-centered”, “missional”, etc.
Look like he just exited Urban Outfitters and know how to handle a man-purse
Buy only Apple computers instead of [...]
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My message and my preaching were not with wise and persuasive words,
but with a demonstration of the Spirit’s power,
so that your faith might not rest on men’s wisdom,
but on God’s power.
- The First Epistle to the Corinthians 2:4-5 (ESV)
Preaching may be easy for some but it’s not for me. In fact, there are days scattered [...]
The following is a sketch drawn during my message last night on “God and Covenant” as we seek to understand the major concepts of the Old Testament. I know people take notes during my messages but taking sketches??? Truth be told, we have an artist or two in our church who do this regularly, and [...]
