A note from Joe: I first met Billy Mitchell a couple weeks before Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans when he was leading a group of NOBTS students to survey the French Quarter for a church restart. I didn’t meet him again until this past January in New Orleans at a Reproducing Churches Network gathering. After...
Today Justin Woulard and I went to Pensacola to meet with a couple church planters in the Reproducing Churches Network. In late January I drove over to New Orleans to a gathering of the RCN guys, including Jason Dukes and Billy Mitchell. That same day they were in New Orleans, Jason and Billy also spent...
Rick Warren, pastor of Saddleback Church, tweeted that tonight. We’ve all heard the same basic idea: our churches should be as mighty as the oak tree: large, majestic, long-living, life-giving. On the surface this is a wonderful analogy for the church. But it’s not the best analogy, and I dare say that Warren’s choice of...
I’m packing again for the second time in less than a year. It’s really not big news, since most of you had figured out a long time ago that I’m moving back to Mobile, Alabama in a couple weeks. May 10th is my last day in Fort Worth. Mobile isn’t an easy place for me...
Brothers, join in imitating me, and keep your eyes on those who walk according to the example you have in us. For many, of whom I have often told you and now tell you even with tears, walk as enemies of the cross of Christ. [Philippians 3:17-18, ESV] Until you can stand up in front...
