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5 Essentials for High Impact Preaching (things most preachers don’t do)
What do you want from your sermon at the end of the day? Vertical Church preaching is all about the expectation that God blesses the unapologetic, Spirit-dependent heralding of His Word—but is there...
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Elder Rule Church Government is From Satan, Too
Back in the spring of 2011, I made the regrettable decision to publish a blog post entitled, “Congregational Government is From Satan.” Initially the post was inflammatory to get attention, but in the...
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Face to Face with False Religions
Hey friends: It’s starting to become a very long trip. We are missing family and deeply grateful for your prayers. My health recovered quickly as well as my voice, and I am back to preaching, for which...
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Tea, Laborers, and Fields That Are Ripe
Hey friends: Did you know that some of the highest quality tea in the world is grown in Kenya? To make such quality tea, they harvest only the bud and top leaf from each tea plant. For that reason the...
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Changed Forever
Hey Friends: We’re in the last week of our Risen for the Nations tour . . . and your prayers have meant so much to us. We are changed forever by what we have experienced and seen. We’ve spent our final...
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5 Bruce Jenner Facts
“With respect to this they are surprised when you do not join them in the same flood of debauchery, and they malign you; but they will give account to him who is ready to judge the living and the...
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The Gospel Changes Everything
Love, love, love the stories of how God continues to be glorified through people who build on the foundation of unconditional forgiveness in Christ and let the Lord truly transform them… If you need a...
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Here We Stand on Marriage
With the recent Supreme Court decision regarding marriage, various people have been asking where we stand in response. Our position is expressed in the following statement from Dr. Russell Moore of the...
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God Will Not Forget—Don’t Forget It!
Hebrews 6:10: For God is not unjust so as to forget your work and the love which you have shown toward His name, in having ministered and in still ministering to the saints. It’s summer, and vacation...
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Matt Redman and the Privilege of Serving Jesus
Take a few minutes and work through this post. I am praying it will stir fresh affection for Jesus and for serving Him with your whole heart. “Do not withhold good, from whom it is due, when it is in...
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Is Kim Davis right about her rights? Are we right about Kim Davis?
I think it great sin to fire public shots at members of Christ’s family and pray for increased faithfulness among us to “love one another earnestly from a pure heart, since you have been born again” (1...
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A Shot in the Arm (and 5 Other Things)
Time to freshen up the blog, as we bring our busy fall ministry launch season to a close. Here are just a few touch points, to connect my heart with yours and get current . . . • HARVEST TRAINING...
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Unapologetic Preaching and Raising Your Voice
“And my speech and my preaching were not with persuasive words of human wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power…” (1 Corinthians 2:4). Preaching—true biblical preaching, heralding the...
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Happy Birthday, Luke
Today our oldest son, Luke, turns 30 years old. Happy Birthday! Dear Luke: I remember the first time I heard you sing — of course, we had sung kids’ songs together many times, but you were really...
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A Compelling State of Affairs
Leaders don’t spend a lot of time on things that are going well. Leaders look for underutilized resources, for new talent. They are constantly on the search for what could improve—and into that, they...
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Preachers, a President, and the Damage Done By Equivocation
For if the trumpet makes an uncertain sound, who will prepare for battle? (NKJV) Again, if the trumpet does not sound a clear call, who will get ready for battle? (NIV) The context of this wonderful...
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Jerry Falwell, Jr., Donald Trump, and the Crisis at Liberty University*
*Note: title may be designed to ignite people’s fondness for negativity /controversy. JERRY FALWELL I was hosted this past Wednesday by the incredible David Nasser at Liberty University for what he...
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Days of Preparation
DAY 5: HOW BEAUTIFUL Different style of music—same message. Different vocalists—same message. Watch Eddie and Ben take an operatic form and stoke the fires of our worship all the more in this memorable...
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The Tension in the Truth
During the time allotted for sermon prep, pastors frequently feel a growing dissonance about a tension created by the biblical text from which they are working. To illustrate, if I were planning to...
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Treating God’s Glory as a By-Product
One of the most educational days I ever spent was in Bakersfield, California, with a man named Bill Bolthouse. A deeply committed Christian originally from Michigan, Bill developed and refined the...
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