Life

Retreat Day

I’ve been doing a lot of reading, thinking, and talking about church planting. Today, though, I’m getting away for a day to a retreat center. On the agenda: to pray, think,

Shrove Tuesday Challenge

Today is Shrove Tuesday. Traditionally, it’s the day to consume all the eggs and fat prohibited during Lent. Tomorrow is Ash Wednesday, which marks the beginning of Lent. Charles Simeon, one of

Wait for the Lord

When I began to sense last year that we were about to make a transition in our lives and ministries, but the details weren’t clear, I set Psalm 27:14 as the

Vision Delayed

Vision delayed? Things not going as well as you’d expected? In Amazing Grace in the Life of William Wilberforce , John Piper writes of the perseverance of William Wilberforce: His adversaries complained that

Thank You

I received this note at our send-off from Richview a couple of weeks ago. It has to be one of the nicest notes I’ve received as a pastor.