
Church Plant Chronicles 1 – Of Good Courage
Church planting is gutsy. I’m not trying to pat myself on the back here, but church planting is not for the faint of heart. But what’s interesting is how easily the heart of a church

Church planting is gutsy. I’m not trying to pat myself on the back here, but church planting is not for the faint of heart. But what’s interesting is how easily the heart of a church

All failure lands hard. But there’s an exceptional type of failure – of the Ashley Madison variety – that publicly exposes one’s worst moments and secret sins. The path into the future is instantaneously rerouted

Light changed the way I live my life. Now, I’m probably not saying what you think I am. When my wife and I moved to Chattanooga, TN roughly three years ago to plant a church,

A Majestic Vision Charles Spurgeon was crazy-busy on steroids. In addition to his duties as pastor of the massive Metropolitan Tabernacle Church, Spurgeon worked unrelentingly on behalf of his beloved Pastors’ College. Here’s just some

(Click Here for the Spanish Translation) The phone call just ended. It was a wonderful hour spent talking with the Lead Pastor of a thriving metropolitan church. His next few days included a sermon to

In this episode of the “Am I Called?” podcast, Dave talks to Don Whitney. Don has been Professor of Biblical Spirituality and Associate Dean at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, KY since 2005. In this episode, Dave

I spent several years acquainting myself with the myriad sleeping positions my 2006 Honda Accord afforded me. After graduating college I set out to become a vagabond musician. As my travels crested past 100,000 miles,
In this episode of “Calling Questions”, Dave seeks to answer this difficult question: What should a guy do if he wants to go into ministry but his elders don’t like him? You can listen to

The great 19th century pastor, Charles Spurgeon, was committed to training young men for pastoral ministry. One of the ways he did this was by giving regular lectures to the young men attending his Pastors’

Dude, there are a lot of books. As I turn around and gaze at the plethora of titles tucked tightly into my living room shelves, it feels overwhelming to think of how many I still
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