Into All The World | Travis & Teri Snode

I recently read this post on Thom Rainer’s blog and wanted to repost it here.  I really thought it was very insightful.  I don’t want to look back and have the same regrets in the future. I recently interviewed more than twenty pastors who had been in ministry for at least 25 years. All of [...]

I thought this post by David Murray on his HeadHeartHand Blog was excellent.  I agree with everything he says, and I am very convicted about this area of my life. There’s one characteristic that separates the successful from the unsuccessful in every walk of life: teachability. Those who are teachable, and remain so, usually succeed. The [...]

source Every person that considers church planting asks the question, Am I a Church Planter? It is the question I asked myself before planting a church. It is the question assessors ask every candidate who submits himself to an assessment process to be a lead planter in a network or denomination. Churches that have a desire to [...]

Recently, a friend of mine emailed me asking for ideas about discipling and training young men with a heart for God.  I jotted down a few ideas for him that you might find helpful.  Here are my thoughts: Be passionate and eat up with serving the Lord, and who you are will influence those around [...]

Exodus 18:25 And Moses chose able men out of all Israel, and made them heads over the people, rulers of thousands, rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens. 26 And they judged the people at all seasons: the hard causes they brought unto Moses, but every small matter they judged themselves. In this passage, Moses’s father-in-law Jethro [...]

My pastor, Austin Gardner, has started a brand new podcast called “Leadership With Vision.”  In this podcast, he shares some very helpful truths about leadership, missions, evangelism, discipleship, church-planting, and training others.  The first three episodes are about: Cross Cultural Relations, Training Leaders, and Leading Softly. All of these have been a great help to me, and [...]

source‎ 3 Characteristics of a Servant Leader: Serving Is the Highest Profession by Paul Chappell The highest model of leadership is cloaked in the lowest forms of humility. Specifically, servant leadership was set and demonstrated by Christ Himself when He left Heaven’s glory and “took upon him the form of a servant” (Philippians 2:7). What does “the [...]

In Psalm 42-43, we find this verse repeated three times: “Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted in me? hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him for the help of his countenance.” (Psalm 42:5).  Psalm 42:11 and 43:5 rephrases the end of the verse like this, [...]

Recently, I was emailed by a young man asking me to give him some advice on how to find the will of God for his life.  Below are a few thoughts that I wrote down and emailed to him: Read the revealed will of God in the Word of God every day and seek to [...]

Ezra 7:10 “For Ezra had prepared his heart to seek the law of the LORD, and to do it, and to teach in Israel statutes and judgments.” Ezra 7:25 “And thou, Ezra, after the wisdom of thy God, that is in thine hand, set magistrates and judges, which may judge all the people that are [...]