We recently had the opportunity to have David Plant as guest speaker for our high school students at re:generate.  He did an amazing job!  Since then though he had the following article published on Gospel Coalition Blog. In the story of the transfiguration, Jesus takes his friends high atop a mountain to share with them…

The church of England has been in decline for a very long time and I am not sure most of the leadership gets it.  Oh, they see the decline in the reports but the general response has been less than inspiring. The evangelical churches are the only ones actually growing (sweeping generalization) and they face…

regenerate 2013 Slideshow from Dave Wright on Vimeo.

I hate to say that I was glad to read this!  What I really wish to read is that more churches are moving away from the stage and lights and rock concert approach to worship.  At least this is a step in that direction. Why Rock Star Worship Leaders Are Getting Fired Some megachurches have…

I have been since May, distributing a little book on the Sufficiency of Scripture by Rob Rienow.  It’s a great little book that argues that we need to look not only to the Bible for what we teach but for how we do ministry.  My convictions exactly! But some folks have taken the idea of…

I was reminded recently of a decision I made years ago that I think had more impact than I realized at the time. Reading an article about growing churches, I remembered a conscious decision I made in my twenties in my first church.  I was working in a 5000+ member church where the high school…

How we interpret the Bible shapes what we teach students.  What and how we teach students shapes how they read the bible.  I know this because my bible study skills are largely attributable to listening to great bible expositors on the radio when I was a college student and young adult.  So, when I read…

Are they aware of this…? In recent days, people around the world have been appalled by images of attacks on churches in Pakistan, where 85 people died when two suicide bombers rushed the Anglican All Saints Church in Peshawar, and in Kenya, where an assault on a Catholic church in Wajir left one dead and…

Kendall Harmon posted this recently…Several years ago, as I watched our diocese and our church head towards the inevitable break with the national church and as I watched churches struggle with hard decisions on the uniqueness of Christ, the authority of scripture, or any other number of issues I went on a journey to see…

I’ve several times posted articles about the benefit and down sides to short term missions projects that are common amongst youth groups.  I never really thought about it until my senior pastor nixed a request to take a group to Russia because it was more cost efficient to send money and hire locals to work…