Unwrap Your Spiritual Gift

Unwrap Your Spiritual Gift

Our family started a new Christmas tradition. For our family gift exchange, we all get a $25 gift card and randomly pick one. We can keep or trade it. At the end, most everyone gets a gift card they like. Gift cards make wonderful gifts. Unless you forget you have...
Communication and Communicator

Communication and Communicator

Attending a national meeting of pastors can be rewarding and difficult. Most of the pastors of a movement cannot attend a national meeting. So, a few years ago I began to blog at the meetings I could attend so others could get at least a sense of what was going on. It...
Science & Simplicity

Science & Simplicity

Have you ever heard something that was really smart but made practical sense? Or have you heard something really simple but knew that it was profound. Wednesday morning at the national meeting of the Baptist Bible Fellowship in Tyler, Texas I heard a mash of both of...
Communication and Communicator

Look Out & Within

I love being part of something bigger than I am. The Baptist Bible Fellowship International is a movement of pastors that began in 1950 and has reached around the world. The 2017 Winter meeting at Central Baptist in Tyler, Texas is an opportunity to motivate continued...
Communication and Communicator

Defeat and Discouragement

The theme of the 2017 meeting of the Baptist Bible Fellowship is MOVE. On Tuesday morning we heard two great messages about when movement stops. Two reasons movement stops is sin and discouragement. These were great insights into why God’s work stalls in our...
Communication and Communicator

Are we a Movement or a Monument?

Whenever you get a group of people together you are going to have different opinions. That was evident today. I spent this afternoon in a pastor’s meeting that had many opinions. Yet, at the end of our time, we agreed to leave united. That’s what makes the...