A number of years ago, I was having a conversation with a friend who has a fairly substantial public ministry. We were discussing the issue of... Read More

Pastoral ministry is unrelenting spiritual warfare. There was a time in Protestant history when an emphasis on spiritual warfare in the Christian life and in... Read More

The Scriptures are full of typological recapitulations to help us better grasp the Person and work of Christ. The principle of theological recapitulation occurs by a series of creation-fall-redemption... Read More

  If you have spent any amount of time reading books or articles, or listening to lectures, about the ministry of the great Jonathan Edwards,... Read More

A friend recently said to me, “I don’t deserve the life I have. Years ago I was wandering from God out in the far country... Read More

The term “small group” (or its many variations) carries almost as much baggage as the word “missional.” It means many different things to different people. Some... Read More

If you had told me 8 years ago that I would parachute plant a church in a small waterfront peninsula in Savannah, GA with a 40-70% military... Read More

When we think of the humiliation and exaltation of Christ we tend to do so in terms of the two stages of His incarnate existence–namely,... Read More