Archive for September, 2009
The Elderly Billy Graham to his grandson
“By God’s grace, I’ve weathered many storms just like this, and if you submit to what God is trying to teach you, he will make you wise and humble and useful.”
Leadership is exceedingly difficult… Tchividjian (Graham’s grandson) has a congregation that is huge… and a small group of 200 (!) don’t like what he’s doing. [...]
Daydreaming as leadership
Here’s an old quote from the president of Yale addressing the board of the great institution:
Ladies and Gentlemen, if I don’t spend time every day with my feet propped up on the desk, dreaming about what Yale ought to be, you need to fire me because I am no longer the leader of Yale – [...]
3 Myths about Preaching Today | Out of Ur | Conversations for Ministry Leaders
If anything then, far from trying to make the Scriptures relevant, the goal of preaching is to make everything else irrelevant. It is the re-narrating of ourselves corporately into God.
via 3 Myths about Preaching Today | Out of Ur | Conversations for Ministry Leaders.
Our Posture Before the Bible
Martyn Lloyd-Jones: “You have a very small brain and you have a very poor spirit within you; do not be surprised that you cannot understand.”
What wise words! If we don’t understand something in the Bible (or in many other places) we should seek to become learners rather than judging from our perspective that which we [...]
