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“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God…In him was life, and the life was the light of men” (John 1:1 & 4). “Unless one is born again he cannot see the Kingdom of God” (John 3:3).  “…if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation” (2 Corinthians 5:17). “And you were dead…But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us, even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ” (Ephesians 2:1-5; cf Colossians 2:13). “I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly” (John 10:10). Life! Christianity is all about life!  Jesus most provocative miracle was giving life back to people like Lazarus and His most...

Today we announce the newest webinar offered by The Jenkins Institute. This one will focus on church leadership. It would be helpful to ministers, elders, deacons or those with potential church leadership.  Any minister who has two elders register for the webinar can come for free.  Click on the image below to register OR go HERE.  Ministers, if you register and then have two leaders register we will refund your registration fee. One more thing: Any minister who sends us his elders email addresses can receive a $5 discount on their...

I love “Undercover Boss.”  It’s neat to see the boss step out of the board room, the penthouse office of prestige and step down to clean the toilets, to stock the shelves to, to log in long hours.  We know at any time he can call it quits!!! We know at any time someone might “find him out.” In his book Epic, John Eldredge says that in those moments, movies, books, works of music or art that move us it is because we see something of the Savior in them. Maybe that’s why I love “Undercover Boss.”  Jesus is sort of an “Undercover Savior.” “For ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that ye through his poverty might be rich” (2 Corinthians 8:9). He stepped out of the ultimate...

It’s graduation time and my friend Jeff asked me what I’d tell a graduate – feel free to add to my start - …love, don’t give up on people, avoid bitterness-it makes you ugly in every way, expect failure, plan for success, know there are many people who want the best for you, love, work-don’t expect everyone else to pay your way, get to know some people older than you and love them till they die, get to know some people younger than you and love them till you die, don’t blame your failures on others, do you best to only have sex with one person in your whole life-it will be great, love, have faith, be faithful, live your faith in faith, read the Bible a little every day, think about the kind of person you want to be and try...

Recently I asked 10 guys who know and/or use tech tools to give me their Top favorites in Five areas.  I thank them…and you will too: Adam Faughn, minister of the Lebanon Road congregation in Nashville. My co-host on iPreach, one of the most consistently excellent bloggers around and a good friend:  1. My favorite blog:  This changes every so often, but right now Chuck Webster’s blog is my favorite. The articles are short, but very thought-provoking. http://www.chuckwebster.org/   2. My favorite site: I would have to say that blueletterbible.org is my go-to site overall. I find myself on that site studying for nearly every lesson at least once. It is a great “starter” site for word studies.   3.  My favorite gadget: My...

I read something last week that has stayed with me: “By 2015 there will be more people in America over age 60 than under 15.”  The scholarly article went on explain that with advances in medicine (not necessarily in health) and with relative peace (In the roughly 70 years before the Vietnam war over 1 million U.S.Soldiers died, in the nearly 70 years since roughly 100,000 have died in war, only 7,000 since 1975.) So people are living longer in general and we have more older people than ever.  But what will it be like? There could be more wisdom to teach the oncoming generation. There could be less drama as the older we get the more we understand what is worth getting upset about. And the drama could be decreased even more as younger people “with drama”...