I thought our Resurrection members might enjoy getting a sneak peak at the sermon plan we’ve been working on for the next 18 months. Keep in mind the titles to the series will change, and you’re missing the ideas and sermon detail that help make these sermons compelling. That information is part of […]
Every summer the church allows me to take a week away from the office in order to develop sermon series outlines for the next 18 - 24 months. I thought those of you who are pastors or lay leaders of other churches might find it helpful to know how this process works.
I’m reading an excellent book this week entitled, unChristian, by Kinnaman and Lyons. It looks at why so many young adults have turned away from Christianity. More on the answer to that question later. For now I’d like to pick up one of the few comments in the book with which I […]
Yesterday the news was abuzz with Dr. James Dobson’s comments, broadcast on his daily radio show Focus on the Family, concerning Barack Obama. Dobson was commenting on a 2006 speech Obama made regarding his own faith and the role of faith in politics. Last night I went back and listened to the entire […]
At the end of May I started a project that will not be completed for six or seven years. Over the next six or seven years we hope to provide a leadership, preaching and evangelism training program for all 16,000 United Methodist clergy and at least one layperson from all 32,000+ United Methodist churches. […]
My apologies for taking leave of blogging for several weeks. I know that’s bad form in the blogosphere but I came to a point where I was out of gas and running on empty. It’s been a crazy few weeks - exciting, exhilarating and exhausting. I’ll give you a thumbnail and then […]
“Love is patient, love is kind…” Which of us has not heard these lofty words read at weddings? But these words were written to guide a community in crisis. The Christians in first century Corinth struggled with conflict and lawsuits. They were tempted by promiscuity in a society where sex was big […]
