Holiness and Identity

Holiness and Identity

What is the connection between holiness and Christian conduct? Where is holiness rooted? In today’s Think Like a Leader, my son William (Academic Dean of Every Nation Seminary and Lead Pastor of All Saints Church) preaches from 1 Peter 2, where Peter talks about...
Finish What You Start

Finish What You Start

Happy New Year. I hope you had a great time of consecration during our annual week of prayer and fasting.As we start a new year, I’ve been thinking about how we finish. The creation account in Genesis includes an important aspect of how God finishes something: he...
Christmas Messages

Christmas Messages

As we continue into this Advent season, I want to reshare a couple of videos about the Christmas mission and the blessing of giving.From the very beginning, the Christmas message is “good news of great joy” and “for all the people” (Luke 2:10–11). Jesus died for all...
The Word of Faith

The Word of Faith

In Romans 10, Paul writes about the “word of faith.”That biblical phrase causes some people to react violently as if the mere utterance of “word of faith” is a damnable heresy. Others so abuse the phrase that it seems they think of God as their personal genie or...
Preach Like Jesus

Preach Like Jesus

In today’s message, I want to talk about how to preach like a leader. To do that, we want to look at the greatest leader and preacher ever: Jesus.We can see how Jesus preached in Luke 4, which gives us a three-part pattern. If we want to preach like Jesus, we need to:...
The Cry of the Poor

The Cry of the Poor

I recently had dinner with David and Caroline Webb, American missionaries in South Africa and founders of Baby Haven. As I listened to their stories, something stirred in me that was later confirmed when I read Proverbs 21, and it made me think about how important it...