An excellent time together… I hope to be able to post the messages Iain gave which I attempted to record on my computer. They were titled: Rightly Handling the Word of TruthFeasting Your Soul at the Banquet of God’s WordDigging for Priceless Pearls

Found the source of this… HERE (credited at the bottom of the list) 35 Reasons Not To Sin Because a little sin leads to more sin.Because my sin invites the discipline of God.Because the time spent in sin is forever wasted.Because my sin never pleases but always grieves God who loves me.Because my sin places…

Steve Wood posted this on his blog Treading Grain Alyssa, one of the young women in our high school youth group, sent me this list she’d compiled of “reasons not to sin.” I was quite impressed by her list and by her thoughtfulness – I know most certianly that my mind was not on this…

The Essential 100 for youth ministry… http://www.ministryplanet.net/sites/e100/youthministry

Hat tip to Todd Simonis for pointing this one out…

“Let us be very careful that we never exalt any minister, or sermon, or book, or tract, or friend above the Word. Cursed be that book, or tract, or human counsel, which creeps in between us and the Bible, and hides the Bible from our eyes!” ~ J.C. Ryle Practical Religion, p. 137

Some messages from a conference I had wanted to attend in May… Next 2009

I preached today in Bluffton (Church of the Cross Buckwalter Campus) and then had lunch afterwards with Josh and Cali Cooke who are the new part time youth pastors for the church. Josh runs a coffee shop near the church and Cali runs a music therapy studio next door to it. Great folks! Anyway, I…

How many mission trips have you led or been on where you did not attend a local worship service with the people you were serving? We tend to figure that we are worshipping every night with our students, so we don’t need to go find a church. Yet if you have gone to serve the…

Some time ago, I began noticing a growing passion in me (which is actually be a restored passion because it has been there before) to proclaim the gospel through preaching, teaching, speaking, etc. It has drawn me to reading books on preaching and articles on gospel centered ministry. I read at one point and author’s…