Brian Proffit's thoughts along the way
If you get the free Smart Ministry newsletter you saw the first part of my interview with Jud Wilhite yesterday. He and Mike Foster are building a movement around the concepts of radical integrity and radical grace. You and I have needed second chances, and so does everyone else. Then today in Chuck Swindoll’s free [...]
I’m going to be interviewing Chuck Swindoll for an upcoming issue of Smart Ministry and…
When starting his new ministry, Noah was ridiculed far and wide. David had to fight a giant. When starting his, Isaiah had his lips blistered with a hot coal. Jesus was nearly starved in the wilderness while being supernaturally tempted. Paul was struck blind.
Today, I am starting a new ministry.
If you’re a member of Church Volunteer Central, you received the December issue of The Inside Track Tuesday and read in my editorial that it was my last issue. And today, all members of Preaching Plus were sent this announcement from Group Publishing. So now you know why I haven’t had as much time to [...]
“All you need is love… Ya-da-da-da-da… All you need is love…” Some of us are old enough to remember the Beatles song All You Need Is Love. Great song, great lyrics, great sentiment, poor theology. “Wait a minute, Brian! Didn’t Jesus say all the Scripture could be summarized as love God with all your heart [...]
When you’re in the doldrums, you might need a kick in the butt.
Some are still wondering if social media actually works. Jonathan Acuff doesn’t have any doubts. Last Monday he mentioned in the Stuff Christians Like blog that his 6 year old daughter’s genuine concern for other kids around the world had led him to contact Samaritan’s Purse and offer to raise $30,000 to build a kindergarten [...]
First, let me apologize to those who moved their subscriptions already and are getting two copies of this. This is the only message for which that will happen—I’m just trying to make sure we bring everyone along with us during this transition. How many times do you include the words “if it be your will” [...]
The Vatican just concluded a five-day conference to study the possibility of life on other worlds and its implication for the church. The Rev. Jose Gabriel Funes, an astronomer and director of the Vatican Observatory, presented the results of the gathering today. “The questions of life’s origins and of whether life exists elsewhere in the [...]
The free Tuesday’s Tip emails come from a variety of sources, but I just wrote the one for next week and I thought I would share it with my followers here: We just concluded a fascinating three-part interview with Tony & Felicity Dale (co-authors of The Rabbit & the Elephant) in the free Smart Ministry [...]
