Many of you have contacted us concerning the Fall and Christmas Outreach Special. After hearing some outstanding spreading efforts, we decided to post a few of them in order to prime your creativity and perhaps help you think of new ways to share Christ this Christmas.

“We’ll be renewing our wedding vows and going to be giving away a book to everyone who attends our ceremony.” (The Griffins in St. Clair Shores, MI)

“After every basketball game, we will be giving every person on the opposing team a copy of Seeing and Savoring Jesus Christ along with a Bible. Afterward, the student body will be getting together on the court to pray for them.” (The Moody Bible Inst…

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This is the prayer I prayed over and over again this past weekend, walking from the back of the conference hall to the front:

Lord, please kill my pride and the desire I have to make a name for myself.

I was one of the speaker hosts for the Desiring God National Conference this past weekend. It was a tremendous privilege to be involved in the conference in this way. But like every good gift, it had its vice.

The Holy Spirit was constantly reminding me throughout the weekend how in-love with myself I am. This was particularly evident in how self-aware I was while escorting our guests from the back of the auditorium to the front.

It’s amazing how such a small …

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In our preaching class at The Bethlehem Institute some time back we came across wonderful counsel by C. H. Spurgeon. When stepping into a new congregation that is laced with backbiting and gossip, he says:

It is the extreme of unwisdom for a young man fresh from college, or from another charge, to suffer himself to be earwigged by a clique, and to be bribed by kindness and flattery to become a partisan, and so to ruin himself with one-half of his people. Know nothing of parties and cliques, but be the pastor of all the flock, and care for all alike. Blessed are the peacemakers, and one sure way of peacemaking is to let the fire of contention alone. Neither fan it, nor stir …

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