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Discipleship
Accidental Missionary Travel Tips: Jet Lag Recovery
I travel. A lot. During a ten-day stretch earlier this summer, I was in Dubai, Cairo, Alexandria, Manila, and Nashville. Right now I am in...
While You Were Eating: the Power of Lifestyle Discipleship
Jesus said some of his most important theological statements, not in a classroom or from a pulpit, but over lunch. Acts 1:4 says: “WHILE HE WAS...
The Lausanne Movement & My Church Planting Presentation
Earlier this year I was invited to participate on The Lausanne Movement‘s Strategy Working Group. Not sure why they picked me, or what I have to...
Leadership
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...
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...
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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