Apostolic Instructions for Modern Church Leaders

Getting back to the original sources is an academic research principle I stress to my students over and over. Christian leadership has been refined and developed for 2000 years. We would be foolish to ignore all of that collective wisdom.Read more…

MISSIONS IN PUBLIC ARENA/MARKET PLACE

Mission has been defined by Collins English Dictionary as a group of people sent by a religious body, especially a Christian Church, to a foreign country to do religious and social work.  The defective part of this definition is thatRead more…

Truth – The Measure of Life and Relationships

Biblical Truth measures all aspects of life and relationships. Basic to this evaluation is an accurate definition of truth that is applicable to every in every culture. Ultimate truth has its source in God the Father, Son, and Spirit andRead more…

4 Questions for John Piper

John Piper was interviewed this week about his decision to pre-record his sermons and then show them instead of having a live preacher. Piper explained that because his church had grown so much they now had 3 campuses – spreadRead more…

Know Yourself Know Your Sermon? – Part 3

This article continues to address some of the questions that Krish Kandiah was highlighting in his article entitled ’Re-imaginging Biblical  Preaching’.    Does preaching still have a role to play in the emerging church? In fact does preaching still haveRead more…

Preaching and the Communication Revolution –

Re-imagining Preaching as a Process Part 2 All of us are living through what can only be described as the greatest communication revolution in the history of the human race. Technology allows us to communicate in ways that were onlyRead more…

Re – Imaginging Preaching as Process Part 1

Reading Krish Kandiah thoughtful article relating to effective preaching under the title “Reimagining Biblical Preaching” got me thinking that perhaps effective preaching needs to be “re-imagined” in our minds as less of an event at which the preacher performs andRead more…

Re-imagining Preaching as a Process Part 1

Reading Krish Kandiah  thoughtful article relating to effective preaching  under the title “Reimaging Biblical Preaching” got me thinking that perhaps effective  preaching  needs to be “re-imagined” in our minds  as less of an event at which the preacher performs andRead more…

Re-imagining Preaching as a Process Part 1

Reading Krish Kandiah  thoughtful article relating to effective preaching  under the title “Reimaging Biblical Preaching” got me thinking that perhaps effective  preaching  needs to be “re-imagined” in our minds  as less of an event at which the preacher performs andRead more…