What we can learn from The Suits
February 6, 2010No Comments
Sometimes both Christians and pastors of my generation think they can’t learn much from a man in a suit. This video, a sermon excerpt from Mark Beeson of Granger Community Church, shows just how much we can learn and be inspired by those who’ve gone before us. Please please please take the 6 minutes to …
A Million Miles in a Thousand Years
February 4, 20101 Comment
Yesterday I plowed through Donald Miller’s latest book, A Million Miles in a Thousand Years. I love the subtitle- “What I learned when editing my life.” We all would like a chance to back and make edits, improvements, change characters and scenes in our life, wouldn’t we?
While we can’t go back and change past experiences, …
Debt even Dave Ramsey would love
February 2, 2010No Comments
“Let no debt remain outstanding, except the continuing debt to love one another, for he who loves his fellowman has fulfilled the law.”
- Romans 13:8
Let’s make sure we’re putting something down on this debt today!
Ed Stetzer laying the HAMMER down
February 1, 2010No Comments
“So, my Reformed friends, let’s not only read 1st, 2nd, and 3rd John (that is, John Calvin, John MacArthur, and John Piper), let’s go plant some more churches. My emerging church friends, let’s take a pause from the theological rethink and head into the neighborhood and to tell someone about Jesus. …
New book feature on the blog
January 29, 2010No Comments
Wanted to let you know I’ve added a new page on the blog called Recommended Books. I’m trying to get through 30 books in 2010, so each time I finish one I’ll add it to the page with my comments.
Two up (one link is having problems, which is a Barnes and Noble problem), and hopefully …
How white pastors can honor MLK Day
January 18, 2010No Comments
Today we remember the life and passion of the great Martin Luther King, Jr., who for a brief and all-too-short period of time was the mouthpiece of God to breakdown sinful and wretched beliefs, mindsets and practices along racial lines.
As a white pastor, I would like to take a moment to encourage other white pastors …
YouVersion is the new AT&T
January 14, 20104 Comments
Well, kinda.
See, both have products people really love. YouVersion has these awesome new reading plans, AT&T has the iPhone. Both are so popular that they are causing their respective networks admitted problems and outages. We’re crucifying AT&T for this…so why aren’t we doing the same for YouVersion? Googling “I Hate AT&T” returns 1.24 million results. …
Death to RSS!!!
January 13, 20106 Comments
I know we were all excited about RSS when it came out year ago, but I think it’s turned into a bad thing for the web.
Ok, maybe not ALL of you. Some are still wondering what RSS even is.
Either way, getting our news and updates from RSS readers and Facebook notes (I’m sure some of …
These go to 11!
January 12, 20104 Comments
This doesn’t quite qualify as a goal for 2010; it’s really more of lifestyle change my wife and I are committed to making.
Kelly and I’ve been at the same base level of giving (with various offerings on top of it) for years now, but we’re upping our baseline monthly giving by 1% in 2010. I …
Hi. I’m Clayton Bell.
I'm husband to Kelly, father to Caroline, and lead pastor Trinity New Life Church, located in Trinity, Florida. I love Jesus, my family, and my church.
The ideas expressed here are totally my own and do not reflect the official positions of TNLC.