imarriage seminar

  Beginning on Wednesday, Feb 25, 2015, Lucy & I will be leading couples through a new marriage seminar entitled imarriage. I am excited to teach this all important study by Andy Stanley. Here is a small description: Standing at the altar, we all had a picture of what our marriage would look like. The

Churches less evangelistic today than ever before

This post comes from Thom Rainer: By almost any metric, the churches in our nation are much less evangelistic today than they were in the recent past. In my own denomination, we are reaching non-Christians only half as effectively as we were 50 years ago (we measure membership to annual baptisms). The trend is disturbing.

100 Blog Post

  Today marks the 100 blog post since moving to Del Rio, Texas in October of 2013. The time has gone by rather quickly. Our family has adjusted from our first days of indoctrination to the area. We had become quite acquainted with our Weatherford, Texas surroundings, after more than a 10 year church staff

Advancing the Gospel

  Yesterday, I preached a second sermon of a 10 sermon series through the book of Philippians entitled “Advancing The Gospel.” As I was preparing the sermon last week, I came across an interesting article by a man I highly respect, Ed Stetzer from Lifeway. You can click HERE to view the article. The article was

Nine Concerns about Church Members Who Withhold Their Financial Gifts

Here is an excellent post by Thom Rainer author of Simple Church: Nine Concerns about Church Members Who Withhold Their Financial Gifts. Stay in the Light, 1 John 1:7, Pastor Larry

Pastors eager to find preaching’s place in modern church

I am posting a very good article about today’s preaching and young adults. I have been amazed at the zeal that young adults of today have to follow hard after God. We have had an influx of young adults, families, and collage age attending church, here at FBC Del Rio. So, sometimes when I hear