Jason who is a pastor on staff at a church in Minnesota received an e-mail from a young man he called “Eric.” In the spring of 2017. He lost job of 15 years. He turned to pain killers, Jim Beam, and Jack Daniels. On way to a job interview he stopped for gas even though […]
A Lifetime Supply of Stories
People, knowing that I am a great lover of stories and Jesus, the Master Storyteller often ask me; “What if you run out of stories.” I like to tell them, “As long as I live there will be new stories, mine yours and the whole wide world of stories. After I die we will have […]
Billy Graham; My “Grandfather”
This morning I got word my grandfather in the faith died. He never knew me. The man who led me to the Lord (my Dad) was saved after reading Billy Graham’s book “Peace with God.” So, you see, there is a sense in which my grandfather in the faith died today. He was 99 and […]
Operation Evangel (video)
Every morning I try to remember that I am here to follow Jesus and help other people follow Jesus. That is it. But how? Here is a little description of what I call Operation Evangel and why it works…
Be Nice
Here is a classic re-post. Last weekend I was in a bookstore to pick up book for my wife. It was a fairly pricey book, something she would use for her photography. When the young lady told me the price I winced. I started to write the check and mentioned that I had a discount […]
Evangelism and Discipleship through Storytelling
If we are going to have a great harvest we are going to have to sow much seed. Little seed is being sown. This coming year in the church I pastor I am going to try to train and inspire the people of Evangel to sow more seed. I am going to help them have […]
One Willing Heart At A Time
One of my duties this time of the year is to do program and concert “wrap-ups” …devotional messages at the conclusion of the Christmas events at Evangel. Last night was our annual Christmas concert. For the second year in a row I joined the Christmas Choir. When it was time for my little message I […]
Operation Evangel; The First Element–Pray
I am a simple parson—storyteller. It is my goal in life to tell the story of the gospel and the stories that surround the gospel. When I do that people’s lives are transformed and then I train them to embed the same life-transforming stories in the hearts of others. I’m out to change my world—through […]
Fewer Meetings-More Ministry
I have a profound stirring in my heart to have fewer meetings at church and more ministry away from church. I’m not against the big assembly—I just think that weekly assembly is going to be much more dynamic if it is filled with new believers who were mined like diamonds out of the community around […]
Storytelling Adventures
The first inclination of my life calling was my childhood eagerness to participate in “Show and Tell.” Saturday, after watching our grandbuddie Kyle (K2) Pierpont play basketball in Howell, I drove up the state through Flint, Saginaw, Zilwaukee, Bay City and Pinconning on Interstate 75 and then followed 23 tracing Lake Huron’s great Saginaw Bay […]