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Discipleship
Never Allow Your Staff to Attack a Leader
Another US presidential election is over. Unlike post-election reality in many nations, the opposition is not dead and not in jail. I am grateful...
Rubber Band Shooters & 5 Ministry Tension Points
Last week I spoke to 250 female pastors and pastor’s wives at the New Zealand Assembly of God national conference. My previous blog is my...
REMEMBERING 911: Crashing Planes & Crushing Myths
This was originally written for Evangelicals Today magazine. I re-post it every year on September 11.———————– September 11, 2001. As always, I...
Leadership
Great Leaders Put Family First
CANTON, MISSISSIPPI—While visiting our Mississippi friends and relatives during the holidays, we stopped by the Murrell family farm/lake house. Has...
The 20-Hour Workweek: Is Hard Work Compatible with God’s Grace?
MANILA, PHILIPPINES—A while back I posted a blog that included a rant about hard work that was inspired by my observation that some ministers and...
5 Tips for Preachers
NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE—My home church, Victory Manila, has over 125 weekly worship services in fifteen Metro Manila locations. Unlike many multi-site...
Family
Tuesday Top 10 List – Thanksgiving
American Thanksgiving. Turkey Day. National Day of Gluttony. Here’s my ’08 THX list: 10. My stuff. Shallow, yes. Nevertheless, I’m thankful for my...
He Was Too Young to Die
For the past five years, Jess Puertollano came to our Manila apartment every Friday and turned our sixteenth-floor kitchen into an art studio. In...
Thx Dad, See You in Heaven
Here’s my annual Father’s Day post. It was originally published in Evangelicals Today magazine. I am also posting it on my ‘accidental missionary‘...
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