Letters To A Young Poet: Letter One by Rainer Maria Rilke Dear Sir, . . . You ask whether your verses are any good. You ask me. You have asked others before this. You send them to magazines. You compare them with other poems, and you are upset when certain editors reject your work. Now [...][...]
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Should You Write? Excerpts From “Letters to a Young Poet”
Mistake #7: Not Understanding Product Living VS Process Living
“If I must boast, I will boast of the things that show my weakness.” 2 Corinthians 11:30 (ESV) This is the seventh in a series of blog posts called, “My Top Ten Mistakes in Ministry (That I Can Share Publicly.)” After many years of ministry experience as a church planter, pastor and seminary[...]
Calvin Rejects Privatized Faith and Promotes Vulnerability in Church Planting Networks :)
“In the church, as Calvin conceived it, every man helped every other man. If in Christ Jesus all believers are united, then a private believer is a contradiction in terms. Not only are the blessings and the virtues given for the common good, but the faults and the weaknesses concern the other memb[...]
My Top Ten Mistakes In Ministry–That I Can Share Publicly: Mistake # 2
“If I must boast, I will boast of the things that show my weakness.” 2 Corinthians 11:30 (ESV) This is the third in a series of blog posts called, “My Top Ten Mistakes in Ministry (That I Can Share Publicly)” After many years of ministry experience as a church planter, pastor and seminary p[...]
GCA Conference – I
I arrived in Orlando, FL a few hours ago to live-blog the Global Church Advancement Conference. Since there are a number of parallel sessions throughout the week, the conference organizers have asked me to post on specific sessions. Tomorrow I’ll be posting on the opening session by Steve[...]