I just received an email from the Valley View Casino Center in San Diego inviting me to purchase tickets for “A Night of Hope” with Pastors Joel and Victoria Osteen. “A Night of Hope” with Joel and Victoria Osteen is an outreach of Joel Osteen Ministries and is an exciting time of praise and worship where attendees will hear…
NAMB’s New Church Planting Bus: Who’s Off?
In his best-selling book, “From Good to Great,” author Jim Collins explains the leadership principle known as “First Who, Then What,” “Those who build great organizations make sure they have the right people on the bus, the wrong people off the bus, and the right people in the key seats before they figure out where…
Sarah Palin, Crude Language & Crass Culture
Definition of CRASS a : gross ; especially : having or indicating such grossness of mind as precludes delicacy and discrimination b : being beneath one’s dignity <crass concerns of daily life> Synonyms: common, coarse, crude, gross, ill-bred, illiberal [archaic], incult, insensible, low, lowbred, lowbrow, raffish, rough, rough-hewn, roughneck, rude, rugged, tasteless, uncouth, uncultivated, uncultured, unpolished,…
SWBTS vs. TBA: Silence Is Deafening & Defining
What’s that you hear? Crickets. As in, no sound at all. As in “no comment.” The sounds of silence — emanating from the normally loquacious, but apparently public relations challenged leaders at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Ft. Worth, Texas — are positively deafening. And, perhaps defining. Since the news of Southwestern’s legal “threat” to take back property that…
Brazilian Grills & My Sunday Night Conversion
When it comes to food, I know what I like. Or, at least I thought I did until this past Sunday night. Driving to Albuquerque to attend a quarterly meeting of the Executive Board of the Baptist Convention of New Mexico, I got a call on my cell phone from one of my church members…