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Leadership
Grace or Truth?
NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE—In one of my all-time favorite movie scenes, Cuba Gooding Jr. plays a mentally challenged young man nicknamed “Radio” who is...
Healthy Church Growth: Measuring What Matters
TOKYO, JAPAN—Earlier this week I was in Kuala Lumpur speaking to Asian megachurch pastors at the 2015 Asia Leaders Summit. With all due respect to...
Asia Leaders Summit: Asians Reaching Asia
KUALA LUMPUR, MALAYSIA—I was surprised and honored to be invited to speak at the 2015 Asia Pastors Summit. Unfortunately, I was given the dreaded...
Family
Pastor’s Priorities
A young pastor recently asked me to help him with his sermon prep skills. We met at Panera Bread, across the street from my office. The more we...
My Day in the ER
Slept like a baby last night—woke up every ninety minutes screaming. In case you missed my “accidental missionary” blog yesterday, here’s the story....
Top 10 Christmas Movie List (version 3.0)
I post something like this every December—the Murrell family Christmas movie favorites. Since there have not been many good Christmas movies in the...
Books
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