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This is an actual recording of D. L. Moody reading the Beattitudes.  Wish we had Spurgeon preaching!  SID0268.mp3 Read More

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Don't plant a church.  Don't plant a service.  Plant the gospel.  What's the difference between planting services and planting the gospel?  What kind of churches do we want to plant?  Hope you'll watch this interview of Jeff Vanderstelt (Pastor, Soma Communities, Tacoma) by Scott Thomas (Director, Acts 29)   http://theresurgence.com/Scott-Thomas-Interview-Jeff-Vanderstelt-video Read More

 

“Pragmatism \ˈprag-mə-ˌti-zəm\  – a practical approach to problems and affairs.”  What’s so bad about pragmatism in the church?  Pragmatism means “doing things that work.”  The alternative is “doing things that don’t work.”  It sounds pretty stupid to say “we’re against pragmatism in the church. … Read More

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I need to listen to people.  Really.  Deeply.  I need to listen to what is said, and I need to listen for what isn't being said.  So do you.  Have you ever been talking with somebody, and when they finally pause for air and give you a teeny-tiny chance to talk too, they don't seem to be paying the slightest bit of attention to what you're saying anyway; they just seem to be holding their next thought 'till you're done so they can fill the earth with more of their wisdom (hot air)?  Annoying, isn't it?  Kinda makes you not want to talk with them anymore.  Don't be like them.  Instead, listen!  Really listen.  Earn a reputation for being… Read More

 

Here's a killer quote from the Prince of Preachers and grand daddy of Reformed Baptists (thanks to my church-planter buddy Matt Troupe for sending this) "...they maintain their churches by converts from other systems. I have even heard them say, 'Oh, yes, the Methodists and Revivalists are beating the hedges, but we shall catch… Read More

"I confess to you, that if I can but live and die serving the Lord Jesus, it will make no difference to me whether I am eaten by Cannibals or by worms. And in the Great Day my Resurrection body will rise as fair as yours in the likeness of our risen Redeemer." - John Paton Read More

This look like your life?  Yeah, mine too.  But God says "be still and know that I am God."  So don't forget to park it, read scripture, meditate and pray. Read More

"Contextualization is not giving people what they want. It is giving God’s answers (which they probably do not want) to the questions they are asking and in forms they can comprehend.  Contextualization is adapting my communication of the gospel without changing its essential character.  Missionary strategy then consists of two parts: a) On the one hand,… Read More