Music & Ministry
This past July (11th-19th), I had the joy of leading 24 people from four Sovereign Grace Churches* in an E-team to our sister church in Nassau, Bahamas. This was a glorious gospel partnership with...
View ArticleEvery Tribe, Tongue, and Nation: The Isaan Thai
In Every Tribe, Tongue, and Nation, a new monthly series, we meet one unreached people group from somewhere around the world. Unreached people groups have no access to the gospel, people who live in a...
View ArticleCheck Your Pride at the Door
This blog is one in a series that is intended to draw our attention to hope in the midst of the challenges and brokenness in marriage. Marriage in the Real World is a conference being hosted at...
View ArticleIntroducing the Neighborhoods & Nations Conference
God is doing something big and breathtaking among the neighborhoods & nations and you have a part to play. We want to help you do your part. And we especially want to help leaders equip their...
View ArticlePreparing for Another Pastors Conference
I have a love/hate relationship with travel. In some ways, I am ideal for trips. I am built for planes—can stretch my legs comfortably in puddle-jumper planes without a problem. I can sleep anywhere...
View ArticleThe Pastors Conference and Thanksgiving Dinner
Picture two different scenes. One, a solitary diner enjoying a fine meal at a local restaurant. Two, the affectionate chaos of a family Thanksgiving dinner. There's nothing wrong with the first--I've...
View ArticleStriving Together at the Council of Elders
Why should our family of churches care deeply about the Council of Elders meeting each year? Because it’s one thing to applaud the interdependence of churches we see in the New Testament, it’s another...
View ArticleEvery Tribe, Tongue, and Nation: The Kinnaura People
Winter comes early at 20,000 feet above sea level. Spring, summer, and fall jostle one another to fit into a cramped six-month span, but for the remaining half of the year, October through May, ice and...
View ArticleThe Pastors Conference Check-up
I’m a little over a week back from the annual Sovereign Grace Pastors Conference and have been reflecting on it a bit. There are features of the conference that I’ve come to expect and appreciate over...
View ArticleDivine Jealousy
I came home from the Sovereign Grace Pastors conference with a fresh surge of divine jealousy. Let me explain what I mean by the term. I want the Lord to receive glory and many echoes of thanksgiving...
View ArticleD.A. Carson & Sam Storms To Teach in the Pastors College
As I announced at our recent Pastors Conference, each year the Pastors College offers special courses in addition to our regular curricula, that strengthen our program and provide ongoing training for...
View ArticleEveryone As Sent
As you’ve heard, Sovereign Grace is hosting a church planting and missions conference in March 2016 called Neighborhoods & Nations. My friends Ian McConnell and Rich Richardson are leading this...
View ArticleA Light for the Nations
Isaiah 49:6 says, “It’s too light a thing that you should be my servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob and to bring back the preserved of Israel; I will make you as a light for the nations, that my...
View ArticleDifferent Language, Same Gospel
A couple of weeks ago at the Sovereign Grace Churches Pastors Conference, Songhwan Kang, Sr. Pastor of Lord’s Grace Church in Seoul, South Korea, gave an update on his church and their efforts to...
View Article2015 Mission Video #4: Latin America and Mexico
2017 marks the 500th anniversary of the beginning of the Protestant Reformation. When Martin Luther lit the match at Wittenberg and the conflagration covered much of the Western world. Stephen Nichols...
View ArticleSeeing Our Cities the Way Jesus Does
Over the past couple of weeks, we have been telling you about a Sovereign Grace missions and church planting conference entitled “Neighborhoods & Nations” that will be held March 8-10, 2016. If you...
View ArticlePrepare Him Room Album Tour
Prepare Him Room – Celebrating the Birth of Jesus in Song is my favorite Christmas Album. I can still remember clicking play on the first promotional video of the song “Who Would Have Dreamed.” The...
View ArticleOur DNA: Rooted and Defined
You see them in annual reports, or on an organization's website under the heading “Our Values.” Words like integrity, honesty, innovation, and collaboration. Those words are intended to capture the way...
View ArticleGathering the Choir
I love to sing, but I’m not much of a singer. I really cannot carry a tune, and apart from singing during worship or in the shower, it’s better for me to just not sing for others. Maybe you’re like me....
View ArticleWhen Love Surpasses Fairness
This blog is one in a series that is intended to draw our attention to hope in the midst of the challenges and brokenness in marriage. Marriage in the Real World is a conference being hosted at...
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