Jon Sampson

I wouldn’t wear it, but that’s just because I’ve never looked good in brown and pink women’s shirts … Via: Ben Arment

Today I learned my high school teacher had it wrong. I’ve always pronounced the Greek letter pi as “pie”. That’s how my math teachers taught me to say it. Today, I learned it’s pronounced “pee”. I don’t know why. It just is. Now I’ve got to figure out why it’s different (for my own curiosity’s…

Seth Godin has a great post on why culture gets ‘stuck’. He shows how it works with music, french food and schools, but you can also easily apply it to churches, community groups and any organization that includes people (yeah…what doesn’t?). You may already read his blog. I know a lot of people do. But…

Here are a few interesting links – just in time for a little weekend reading. + Tim Keller on what it takes for a church to become a reproducing church. (You’ve got to give up something) + Chris Elrod tells how totals don’t tell the whole picture in the life of a church. He also…

From J.R. Woodward’s blog: “The Missionary Heart: Cares more than some think is wise.Risks more than some think is safe.Dreams more than some think is practical.Expects more than some think is possible.”

“Until you master yourself, you have no business trying to master the world. Gordon MacDonald has written: ‘Many years ago I learned their dirtiest, most crabbed secret. That their passion to change the world derived from the fact that they could not change themselves.’” – Bob Roberts Jr. in Transformation: How Glocal Churches Transform Lives…

Yesterday was the first day of orientation at Fuller Seminary. It’s refreshing and exciting to see things ramping up. Hearing from Richard Mouw, the seminary’s president, and some of the School of Theology faculty really has me ready to jump into the classes. It’s exciting to have the opportunity to learn more about Christ and…

I was catching up on some email today when I landed on these verses in a devotional sent by a friend: “Dear friends do you think you’ll get anywhere in this if you learn all the right words but never do anything? Does merely talking about faith indicate that a person really has it? For…

Don’t you just hate it when you’re trying to show the world how nice and strong a sword is and it breaks and stabs you? I know I do.

Just found a creative post at LiveClever (via Lifehacker) about how to dress like a Mac. Want to fit in with the cool, trendy, slightly smug Mac user of today? Now you’ll know exactly how to fit the part. For me, I’m still mainly shopping at Gap and Old Navy and avoiding $90 jeans. Hopefully…

“The time for getting people to come to church is over. It is time to get people to come to Christ … Replace centripetal evangelism that tries to draw outsiders in with centrifugal evangelism that drives insiders out.”– Leonard Sweet

“I made a distinction today between packaged truth and experienced truth. I think we’re real good at packaging truth in the church. We have our systematic theologies and three-point sermons with alliterations. But maybe what people respond to is truth that is more unplugged and more unpackaged. People respond to stories and stories are experienced…

I’m on a roll.Here are Bob Franquiz’s thoughts six years after planting Calvary Fellowship in Miami Lakes, FL.

I’ve decided to start collecting rejection letters. No, it’s not an odd, self-depreciating hobby. In truth, I don’t have enough of them. God has opened doors in amazing ways since I graduated from college. Jobs have come where I needed them and He’s allowed me to be in some pretty awesome places. But as Grete…

Wanna feel a little more intelligent in your spare time? I just found a new website through lifehacker. Daily Lit will email you daily with small pieces of classic novels that are now part of the public domain. Every day (or weekday if you choose) you’ll receive a small chunk of the story. Over time,…