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In 2005 a handful of pastors in the central Ohio area began meeting informally at the Panera Bread at Easton. The purpose of these monthly meetings was simply to spend time together in fellowship and share ministry blessings and burdens.
Over time the meetings grew more structured in that discussion topics or texts were chosen and [...]

I was concerned the other day upon finding a sexually explicit app in the iPhone app store.  These things are fairly easy for me to avoid, but I was thinking about my 14 year old son who owns an iTouch and has the same accessibility to the app store that I do.  Perhaps the temptation [...]

As a follow-up to yesterday’s post, here’s a good word from John Piper, who writes that God must never be served as though He needed anything.
What is the greatness of our God? What is His uniqueness in the world? Isaiah says, “From of old no one has heard or perceived by ear, no God has [...]

George Herbert (1593-1632), in his poem, Love, reminds us that ultimately Christians do not serve God. We are people served by God, especially at the cross. As someone has said, “All the world’s religions are about doing. Christianity is about done.” “In this is love, not that we have loved God but that he loved [...]

Tabiti Anyabwile, a pastor in the Grand Caymans, wouldn’t mind spending a couple days in the DC area to enjoy the snow, but just a couple.  He is receiving a number of emails from people ready to hop on a flight to any point south, but notes that God arranges most divine appointments right where [...]

When snow is piling up outside in drifts serious enough for us to leave our vehicles at the end of the driveway to avoid being stuck, and as church meetings are rescheduled and school classes canceled, it is time to do some make-up reading as there is not much else to do.  Yesterday, I found [...]

Statistics are stubborn.  The changing demographics in Europe and beyond, especially relating to the growing tide of Islam, bespeak a transformed world (YouTube vid contrasting declining western birthrates with exponential Muslim familial growth) within our children’s lifetime.  The ideological struggle is fierce. It is worth following the trial of Geert Wilders, a Dutch politician currently [...]

Just a couple quickies this evening.  First, according to a recent survey here are the pastors/theologians/leaders most influencing this generation of pastors:
- Rounding out the top 10, after Billy Graham and Chuck Swindoll, are:
- Charles Stanley, senior pastor of First Baptist Church, Atlanta, and founder of In Touch Ministries.
- Rick Warren, senior pastor of Saddleback [...]

New church website is up.  There are changes and additions yet to be made, but the ComGroup has done a great job of getting this launched.  The goal of this site is to communicate more to the “outside” audience than inside the New Hope community.  There is an invisible, members-only side of the site we [...]