Last night, The Third Lausanne Congress on World Evangelization came to a triumphant conclusion. The plenary hall of the Cape Town International Convention Center was packed with the 4,500+ participants and more than 1000 staff. Stan (my broadcast team mate) and I determined that we would be in this final session, but as it started,…
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I spend a ton of time traveling, both in the air and driving (when can I please start sailing again?!) and most of the time I have my iPod on. Only rarely am I listening to music, although I have a nice collection ranging from Eva Cassidy to the Rolling Stones, from James Taylor to…
“We’re not trying to grow a church here.” That’s not exactly what you expect to hear right before the pastor says that we must expand to three services because of our rapid growth. It’s not normal, but that’s what Rod Van Solkema told us this Sunday at Crossroads Bible Church outside of Grand Rapids, Michigan.…
I’m spending a lot of time right now in Central Ohio, helping a huge television ministry as executive producer. It’s demanding, hard and rewarding but tonight it ramped up to a whole new level. After dinner with my buddy and Avid editor extrodinaire Mark, I went back to the office to finish writing a script.…
I like Father Michael Pfleger, or at least I liked him back when I was executive producer at WCFC-TV in Chicago and he was a frequent guest on the talk show “Among Friends”. Back then, he was a white priest ministering in a predominantly black part of Chicago and seeing many lives changed. His words…
Somebody done somebody wrong… again. Scott McClellan was one of President George W. Bush’s posse that moved with him from Austin to the West Wing. He was a trusted insider but left the White House in 2006 after serving as press secretary to the President. His kiss-and-tell book What Happened: Inside the Bush White House and Washington’s Culture of…
Uber-Designer, Michael Buckingham, wrote a great post on his blog today in which he talks about the risk of promoting what you cannot deliver. It’s a good reminder. As I was writing a response, I said to myself, “self” (I said) “this would be a great post on your blog, ergon agathon.” So here it…
Every now and then a deal comes around that you can’t pass up (like buying oil futures when crude was $50 a barrel). My friend Cory at 616 Productions has priced his upcoming Defender’s Conference at an incredible rate that I recommend jumping on. Get this… Mark Mittelberg, Dr. Norm Geisler, Dr. Alex McFarland, Dr. Jason Reed,…
In a recent discussion with my resident curator of cultural conformity (my 16 year old daughter) (and yes, we do have discussions, where we both actually talk) we chatted about what she thought were the vital characteristics of a church that she would like to attend. It all came down to two basic components: a…
Anna Jarvis worked nine years to establish a national day celebrating mothers. She gave up her job and put her entire time and energy into this quest. She was successful. Then she spent the next 14 years complaining about how people had taken what she had worked so hard for and twisted it, creating a…
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