Ed Stetzer

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Fifteen Minutes that Changed the World Forever — Rev. Paul T. McCain

It's the first day of October and Reformation Day is coming soon. Lutheran uberblogger Paul McCain reminds us of why that matters.

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Iran is all over the news. President Obama and President Hassan Rouhani talked last week—the first time the presidents of the two nations have spoken since 1979. This is being hailed as good news, and I tend to think that starting conversations is a good first step. Yet, ...

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Experiment that convinced me online porn is the most pernicious threat facing children today — Martin Daubney

This is a stunning article, but also contains explicit language. I post it because I think it is simply tragic. And, note that the man who pens it was involved ...

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In just a couple of weeks I will be headed to Lynchburg, VA to speak at Refuel 2013. Refuel is a conference held annually for pastors and other church leaders who need to take a couple of days to recharge, learn, and fellowship with other pastors and church leaders.

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In spring of next year, The Gospel Project team will release the seventh volume of our new curriculum. You may have heard that the Gospel Project recently passed half a million weekly users.

It's a crazy thing—God is using The Gospel Project around the world, ...

Watch out for that pesky peanut butter!

I don't think it was meant to be, but this is just creepy.

Dunkin' Donuts is late to the dunkin' party, as far as this church is concerned.

Thanks to @RevJLancaster, Scott Hanberry, and Ryan Gafton for sending these ...

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During a recent trip to Brazil to work on our research partnership with the Cidade Viva Foundation, I had the opportunity to meet with Ebenezer Bittencourt, Director of the Haggai Institute in Brazil. The Haggai Institute is doing some great work in leadership and evangelistic ...

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Christians work to rescue world's orphans, but obstacles stand in way — Bob Smietana

Bob Smietana, formerly of The Tennessean, and now writing for our flagship magazine Facts & Trends, reported a story on orphans that just ran in the paper. It presents a good ...

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Tell me about some unique things your church is doing in outreach.

I don't know if we do anything that's really "unique." I would describe our outreach as "simple." I think Jesus' was too. He simply told his disciples, to "Go, make disciples." ...

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If you are not reading Anthony Bradley, you really should be. In this article, he pushes a bit about our view of the creation narrative. Interesting stuff…

A Conflict of Christian Visions: Gen. 1-2 vs. Gen. 3 Christianity — Anthony Bradley

Christine was recently ...

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Outreach Magazine just released their Outreach 100 issue for 2013. LifeWay Research does the research for this issue. I was particularly encouraged to see the list focus especially on fastest growing churches. You can subscribe to the magazine here. Here is my article with a ...

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Amy Simpson responds to our research on mental health that has been reported at CNN (here and here), The Huffington Post, the Blaze, and lots of other places.

Evangelicals, You're Wrong about Mental Illness — Amy Simpson

I appreciated Ronnie Floyd's words here. ...

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Denominations and networks of churches were and still are created for the purpose of partnership in mission. At times, these organizations have successfully unified churches around their common goals and accomplished much. But sometimes the very institutions meant to unify ...

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Moody's change to its alcohol policy has hit the news. As I see it, changes like this point to ongoing discussion (and in some places shifting views) on alcohol in conservative evangelical circles.

I've recently had conversations about alcohol with Wesleyans (you ...

On Tuesday, October 29th, Micah Fries and I will be in south Florida, hosting an important regional conference dealing with Transformation; specifically what it looks like to lead a church that is a place of consistent transformation. We'll be joining with pastors, staff ...