Each week I receive an email entitled “Pastors Weekly Briefing” (affiliated with Focus on the Family). Yesterday’s feature article was titled, “DO YOUR PEOPLE SHARE THEIR FAITH?” Following are some excerpts from the article, along with my own editorial comments and observations. A report from Lifeway Research (March 26, 2009) notes that the SBC (Southern Baptist Convention) is …
Category Archives: Evangelism
“Back in the Saddle”
After almost two weeks in Ecuador, it is good to be back in the office and able to resume a more normal schedule. The last week has been one of intense travel–seven consecutive nights in a different bed each night, but also a week of intense beauty and encouragement. The opportunity to see what God …
Keeping On Keeping On
Most ministers at some time wonder if what they do matters. Most projects and programs begun fade. Some of those brought to Christ fall away. The success of ministry is hard to measure. A couple of years ago, I was sharing some of these thoughts with an elder in a congregation where I served 20+ years ago. …
The Ministry of Recycling
I admit I wasn’t excited several years when our trash service started a recycling program. After years of throwing all the garbage into the same container, I had to be retrained. Now at our house we recycle newspaper and cardboard, aluminum cans, tin cans, and plastic bottles. I am a little amazed when I travel to places …
Eating for Two
“The Sovereign Lord has given me an instructed tongue, to know the word that sustains the weary.” (Isa. 50:4) My wife and I will be grandparents again in August. We just returned from visiting our son and daughter-in-law. It seems the words and the advice are timeless: “Remember, you’re eating for two.” I admit that I …