A lot of interesting characters show up in the Bible, and the book of Judges is filled with them. One man kills a bunch of his enemies with an ox-goad (is that like a cattle-prod?) A woman takes out the General with a stake through the eyeball. Yes, Judges is not the book for the…
From the autostrada to my house, there is one stoplight and there are eleven round-abouts. Most people are familiar with the round-about way of negotiating intersections, but unless you face them each day, the negotiating can be tricky. Some are simply the “glance left and go” types of round-abouts. Others have three roads and six…
As a way of helping churches and ministry who long to see effective and multiplying Small Groups launched and led in their ministries, this blog offers Small Group Leader Training, Unit One of a six unit training course we are developing. The Student Guide goes with the Small Group Leader Trainer’s Guide from the previous…
7:07 p.m. Sunday, November 30, 2008 We are in Torre Pellice in the Alps of Italy looking for an “appartemente” to move into near the end of December and we worshiped at Chiesa Cristiana Evangelica here in Torre this morning. Our plans were to return to the office kitchen after worship and stir up some…
I live in Italy with my wife and youngest daughter, and I serve as Discipleship Coordinator and International Leadership Trainer for an International non-profit missions group. We have worked with or visited a dozen or so evangelical churches since our first step into the world of missions. Each has indicated, either through actions or conversation,…
