Category: Newsletter

Missons, Newsletter

Pentecost

Recently, Tommy Hood and I had the blessing of making our first pandemic-era international trip. We spent four days in Costa Rica and then three in the mountains of…

Newsletter, Perspective

Thinking with God

Thinking with God Several PI Family Camps ago, I came downstairs early to find Papa Jack (Taylor) sitting at a table with his Bible, notebook, and coffee. I opened…

Discipleship, Newsletter

Fighting for the Great Commission

Testemony A few days ago the Holy Spirit and I un-demonized a young man. We were meeting in my living room processing the challenge he faces to maintain his…

Newsletter, Perspective

Certainty is a Sin

Certainty is a Sin A few years back, Peter Enns published a remarkable book entitled, The Sin of Certainty. His big idea is that the Father never intended us…

Newsletter, Perspective, Transitioning

Getting into Position

Propper Positions Years ago, I coached football at the High School level. One of the most important things we did was to get them into the proper positions. Often,…

Newsletter, Perspective

The Until

In The Until Some days it feels like we are living In the UNTIL UNTIL things change UNTIL this ends UNTIL He returns We were never meant to be…

Newsletter, Perspective

Transformational Thinking

Behavior Our theology shapes our behavior. Did you know that? Every day, you and I make decisions based on what we believe to be true. At the heart of…

Newsletter, Perspective

Hindered

Christmas As Christmas draws nigh in this tumultuous 2020, it’s time to remember Him. It’s been a crazy year, to say the least: COVID-19, economic disruptions, travel bans, sicknesses,…

Discipleship, Newsletter

The Breakfast Club

Breakfast Club At six o’clock in the morning every first Tuesday of the month, a gathering of 12 coffee-drinking, blurry-eyed, hungry-for-God young ladies, along with Dawn Brown and myself,…

Newsletter, Perspective

Rewrite Our Script

One of the greatest contrasts between a traditional understanding of the gospel of salvation and what Jesus referred to as the gospel of the kingdom is God’s desire to…

Newsletter, Transitioning

The Big Shift

Molting I’m re-reading James Michener’s historical novel, Chesapeake. In it, Michener describes the male blue hard-shell crab’s molting process that takes place three times per year. The little guy…

Kindgom, Newsletter, Perspective, Transitioning

Golden Calf: Holy Cow!

The Israelites Recently, I was preaching in the Texas Rio Grande Valley, where Boone and Beth (our kids) are pastoring and God empowered the message concerning Moses and Joshua…