Wednesday, December 4, 2024

Radically on mission

This is the final column that I will write as national director. Thinking about what to write, I keep coming back to what has...

Appreciate your pastor

While pastoring at Pine Acres Church in Weatherford, Oklahoma, from 1991 to 2004, my wife, Janna, and I experienced a congregation that wonderfully supported...

The value of life

Although I have written about abortion and the sanctity of life in the past, I have been asked by several people to clearly address...

Prepared for Christ’s return

In the book of Ecclesiastes, we read that there is a time for this and a time for that. At the beginning of a...

Wanted: young pastors

As we continue to explore the crucial need for developing more ministry leaders, I am calling for a vision summit to be held in...

Hungering after God

In July I asked our USMB family to join me in a dedicated 24-hour time of prayer and fasting. We collectively petitioned God to...

Let’s talk about ChatGPT

The church, specifically pastors and others preparing sermons or resources, faces a new dilemma. Artificial Intelligence (AI) is now capable of quickly creating these...

What defines my identity?

In recent columns I’ve written about the influence today of secularism in the American church and that only a small percentage of Christians in...