On this episode, I sit down with my friend and co-worker, Ginger Chestnut, to talk about Lies Young Women Believe, parenting, and mentoring the next generation. Through the course of the conversation we discuss ice cream and popcorn for dinner, burned meals, and living room campouts. If you are a woman or young woman, you …
I have just celebrated my sixteenth anniversary as the pastor of Malvern Hill Baptist Church. Often, as I reflect on my time at Malvern Hill, I offer advice or suggestions to pastors who desire a long tenure. Today, however, I am writing to churches who might desire to keep a good pastor. For a man …
Pastors have a biblical expectation and responsibility to welcome guests into their homes. There is not a biblical expectation that they become extravagant hosts or live in a particular kind or size of home. There is not a biblical expectation that pastors always have people in their home. But, there is a biblical expectation that the homes …
Most people do not care how much I bench press or what my most recent squat was. Very few people know or care how much time I spend in my home gym or how much I enjoy my Rogue barbells. Truthfully, I talk so much about weightlifting from the pulpit that it has become a …
For this important subject, I have decided to post a blog and to record a podcast which you can find here. Unintentionally, people say some pretty dumb and insensitive things to grieving friends and loved ones. We don’t say wrong things to be offensive, often we say wrong things because we just don’t know what …
Grieving people need the comfort of community. But, in times of grief, we can often say things we don’t mean or attempt to comfort people with words that hit wrong. Todd Warnock joins me on the podcast today to talk about the things that were helpful for him when he lost his son and to …
There is a buffet drawer in our foyer filled with tablecloths. I don’t know how many there are, but I’m sure there are more than five. There are all different sizes and shapes of tablecloths. I know we have a green one, one has snowflakes. One isn’t even a tablecloth at all, it is a …
Have you ever found yourself longing for more than an online experience? Have you ever missed a payphone or a real textbook? Maybe you remember the smell of your elementary school or the relationship with your high school youth leader. If any of these describe you, you know something about the desire for analog experiences. …
As I prepared a recent sermon from Acts 17, my outline included the following point: Be broken, not angry. There was one problem. In Acts 17:16, the Bible says Paul was provoked. Acts 17:16 does not say Paul was broken, it says he was angry. He was irritated or maybe exasperated, but the Bible does …
Social media likely shapes the people you love and disciple more than you do. With that Sentence, Chris Martin begins his book, The Wolf in Their Pockets. On this episode of the podcast, Chris shares about the premise behind his book, the positive aspects of social media and the dangers that it presents. Chris encourages …