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Leadership: Prophets, Priests, and Kings in the Church Today?

8th October 2018

This post on prophets, priests, and kings as leadership typology is excerpted from my book The God Who Goes Before You. You can purchase the book here. Does my personality as a leader land me in the category of prophet, priest, or king? And, if it does, what does that mean for my leadership in the […]

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Filed Under: Blog, featured, Lead, Uncategorized Tagged With: church discipline, Deuteronomy, judge, justice, king, kingdom, kingship, leader, leadership, Moses, munus triplex, priest, prophet, threefold office

Leadership: Priestly Leadership in the New Covenant

8th October 2018

What does priesthood in the Old Testament have to do with church leadership today? Quite a lot, as it turns out—though perhaps not in the way you would assume! Priestly leadership isn’t about becoming a priest; it isn’t even about becoming a caregiver or counselor for the people of God. To understand the implications of […]

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Filed Under: Blog, Books, featured, Lead, Learn, Serve, Uncategorized Tagged With: Moses, old covenant, Old Testament, priest, priesthood, priestly, teach, teacher, teaching

Leadership: The God Who Goes Before You

1st October 2018

Today, The God Who Goes Before You is finally available in bookstores! This book on leadership develops a fresh definition of pastoral leadership that is thoroughly grounded in the storyline and canon of Scripture. As the book unfolds, what Michael Wilder and I have developed together is a vision for the leadership of God’s people […]

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Filed Under: Blog, Book reviews, Books, featured, Lead, Serve Tagged With: followership, leadership, shepherd, The God Who Goes Before You

Leadership: Kingly Leadership in the New Covenant

24th September 2018

This post is excerpted from my book The God Who Goes Before You: Pastoral Leadership as Christ-Centered Followership.You can order the book here. What does kingship in the Old Testament have to do with church leadership today? Quite a lot, as it turns out—though perhaps not in the way you would assume.

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Filed Under: Blog, Books, featured, Lead, Serve, Uncategorized Tagged With: church, church discipline, Corinthians, Deuteronomy, Isaiah, Israel, Judah, king, kingdom, kingly, kings, kingship, leadership, monarchy, Paul

Leadership: Leadership as Followership in the Life of Moses

17th September 2018

This post was written with Michael Wilder and is excerpted from our book The God Who Goes Before You. You can order the book here. Incompetent Leaders, Omnicompetent God The opening verses of Exodus invite readers into a story that stretches backward through Abraham to the very beginning of time. Moses wrote that “the Israelites were […]

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Filed Under: Blog, Books, featured, Lead, Uncategorized Tagged With: Exodus, followership, I AM, Israel, leadership, Moses, Old Testament, Old Testament leadership

Leadership: Leadership as Followership in the Life of Moses

17th September 2018

This post was written with Michael Wilder and is excerpted from our book The God Who Goes Before You. You can order the book here. Incompetent Leaders, Omnicompetent God The opening verses of Exodus invite readers into a story that stretches backward through Abraham to the very beginning of time. Moses wrote that “the Israelites were […]

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Filed Under: Blog, Books, featured, Lead, Uncategorized Tagged With: Exodus, followership, I AM, Israel, leadership, Moses, Old Testament, Old Testament leadership

Leadership: Shepherd Leadership as God-Centered Followership

10th September 2018

This post on shepherd leadership is excerpted from my book The God Who Goes Before You. You can order the book here. The Failure of Israel’s Shepherds Have you ever faced a situation where someone did such a poor job on a project that you declared, “I’ll just do it myself”? That’s not too different from […]

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Filed Under: Blog, Books, featured, Lead, Uncategorized Tagged With: Ezekiel, Israel, Jeremiah, Judah, leader, leadership, sheep, shepherd, shepherd leader

Leadership: Priestly Leadership in the New Covenant

4th September 2018

What does priesthood in the Old Testament have to do with church leadership today? Quite a lot, as it turns out—though perhaps not in the way you would assume! Priestly leadership isn’t about becoming a priest; it isn’t even about becoming a caregiver or counselor for the people of God. To understand the implications of […]

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Filed Under: Blog, Books, featured, Lead, Learn, Serve, Uncategorized Tagged With: Moses, old covenant, Old Testament, priest, priesthood, priestly, teach, teacher, teaching

Apologetics: How Aristides Spoke Truth to Power in the Second Century

27th August 2018

Imagine yourself as a follower of Jesus in the opening decades of the second century. Nearly a century has passed since the first followers of Jesus claimed they saw their leader alive three days after they watched him die. Now, the Christian faith has reached nearly every urban center in the Roman Empire. And yet, […]

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Filed Under: Apologetics, Blog, featured, Uncategorized Tagged With: apologetics, apologia, Aristides, Aristides of Athens, Christian philosopher, Christian philosophy, cosmological, cosmological argument, defense, Emperor Hadrian, Hadrian, Hadrian’s Wall, philosopher, philosophy, teleological, teleological argument

Sermon: The Wisdom that Comes from Peace

20th August 2018

“Peace be with you.” Christians all around the world repeat these words every week—but what would our lives look like if peace really was woven into every part of our lives? The book of James provides us with a clue: “The fruit of righteousness is sown in peace,” James writes, “by those who cultivate peace” […]

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Filed Under: Audio, Blog, featured, Lead, Uncategorized Tagged With: Bible, James, James 3, leadership, message, New Testament, pastoral ministry, peace, preaching, sermon, wisdom

Sermon: Learning to Live in Awe

23rd July 2018

“For this reason,” Paul declared in his letter to the Ephesians, “I fall to my knees before the Father” (3:14). When people fall to their knees in the Bible, we tend to assume that the primary purpose of their prostration is prayer—and that was indeed part of what Paul was expressing here. But that’s not […]

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Filed Under: Audio, Blog, featured, Lead Tagged With: adoption, awe, church, church as family, church growth, circumcision, ecclesiology, Ephesians, Ephesians 3, family, Gentile, Jewish, Jews, leadership, message, Paul, prayer, sermon, Sojourn Community Church, wonder

Church History: The Centrality of Scripture in the Ministry of Macrina

16th July 2018

Two years after the Council of Nicaea in the year 325, Macrina the Younger was born. She—as Coleman Michael Ford has pointed out— lived between two worlds. One world was the age of Christian persecution by the likes of emperor Diocletian and others. For many Christians in the three centuries before Macrina’s birth, persecution leading […]

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Filed Under: Blog, featured, History, Lead Tagged With: Basil, bibliology, Cappadocians, church history, Eastern Orthodox Church, Great Cappadocians, Gregory, Gregory Nazianzen, Gregory Nazianzus, Gregory of Nyssa, history, inerrancy, Macrina, Orthodox Church, patristics, Scripture

Meditation: Worship as Remembering Our Place

10th April 2018

“The captain has turned off the seat belt sign.” My wife and children are at home, but I am not. The conference has been long, the flight has been delayed, it is late, and I am longing to see the lights of Louisville. Sparkling crystals of light unfurl beneath me, not evenly scattered across the […]

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Filed Under: Blog, Family Ministry, featured, Uncategorized Tagged With: liturgy, love of place, place, sense of place, worship

Writing: If You Want to Remember It, Write It By Hand

7th January 2018

Words and writing matter. In the opening chapter of the Scriptures, God speaks, and a cosmos bursts into being (Genesis 1:3). When he constitutes Israel as his  people, God speaks and writes, and a covenant is born (Exodus 31:18). John described the incarnation of God in Christ by declaring, “the Word became flesh” (John 1:14).

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Filed Under: Blog, featured, Lead, Learn Tagged With: fountain pen, fountain pens, handwriting, learning, notebook, paper, pedagogy, pen, pens, preaching, teaching, writing

Apologetics: How Can the Bible be Inerrant if Copyists Made Mistakes?

7th January 2018

How can the Bible be inerrant if there are variations among the manuscripts and even between different accounts of the same events? That’s the question we’ll explore together in this post. How Can We Have the Word of God If Some of the Words Are Different? I slumped in an unpadded pew, half-listening to the morning […]

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Filed Under: Apologetics, Blog, featured Tagged With: apologetics, Bart Ehrman, Bible, New Testament, Scripture

Family Ministry: When and Why Did Weekly Children’s Classes Begin in Churches? (Part Three)

29th November 2017

This research into the history of age-organized catechetical classes in the church is based on an academic paper that I presented to the practical theology section of the annual meeting of the Evangelical Theological Society in Providence, Rhode Island, on November 16, 2017. This post is the third in a three-part series. Click here for […]

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Filed Under: Blog, Family Ministry, featured, History, Lead

Family Ministry: When and Why Did Weekly Children’s Classes Begin in Churches? (Part Two)

28th November 2017

This research into the history of age-organized ministries in the church is based on an academic paper that I presented to the practical theology section of the annual meeting of the Evangelical Theological Society in Providence, Rhode Island, on November 16, 2017. This post is the second in a three-part series. Click here for Part […]

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Filed Under: Blog, Family Ministry, featured, History, Lead Tagged With: A Weed in the Church, children, children's ministry, church history, church leadership, family integrated, family integrated church, family integrated ministry, family ministry, history, John Calvin, leadership, Reformation, Reformed, Reformed theology, Scott Brown, youth, youth ministry

Family Ministry: When and Why Did Weekly Children’s Classes Begin in Churches? (Part One)

27th November 2017

When did age-organized ministries for children begin? If you thought children’s classes didn’t begin until the introduction of Sunday School, you have a lot to learn!

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Filed Under: Blog, Family Ministry, featured, History, Lead, Learn, Uncategorized Tagged With: A Weed in the Church, children, children's ministry, church history, church leadership, family integrated, family integrated church, family integrated ministry, family ministry, history, John Calvin, leadership, Reformation, Reformed, Reformed theology, Scott Brown, youth, youth ministry

Apologetics: New Heresies Are Rarely New

6th November 2017

At least once or twice every year—usually around Christmas and Easter—popular magazines and blogs seem to go out of their way to locate some shocking fact that supposedly debunks what Christians believe about Jesus. In most cases, these supposedly-shocking data are recycled from one of the many failed quests for the historical Jesus that have ebbed and […]

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Filed Under: Apologetics, Blog, featured, History Tagged With: Gnosticism, Gospels, heresies, heresy, Marcionism

Sermon: The Cycle That Only A Cross Could End

5th September 2017

“If only I could see God do something amazing, then it would be easier to follow him.” Has that thought ever occurred to you? It’s certainly crossed my mind from time to time! And yet, what we learn throughout the Scriptures is that, even when people did see God do something amazing, faithfulness wasn’t any […]

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Filed Under: Audio, Blog, featured, Lead Tagged With: Barak, Deborah, Jael, Judges, Judges 4, Judges 5, sermon, Sisera, Sojourn, Song of Deborah

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