Today Shepherd’s Staff launches a PODCAST. The first series will be one that was unearthed from audio archives of Pastor Jeff Jackson teaching a Church Planting class at Calvary Chapel Bible College. Pastor Jeff is one of the best teachers I’ve ever had the privilege of learning from. I’ve been listening to this course for [...]
I found this helpful document while reviewing some training materials I have on my shelves in my office. I hope you find it helpful. Philippians was Paul’s letter to a church in partnership with him. Here are a dozen principles Paul used in his letter which we can use also. I urge you to make [...]
Due to financial difficulties the Spiritual Freedom offices have been closed since July. We are confident that God will provide the needed resources to continue this 15 years fruitful ministry to 1,000′s of Russian prisoners. The letters, requests for new courses and completed courses have been coming in each week. Alexy the director of SFM [...]
Urban Youth Impact’s annual Back2School Blast is August 8th and we need backpacks. We will be collecting new backpacks until August 4th. You can bring your donation to the Dream Center at 2823 N. Australian Ave. in West Palm Beach or the following locations: Boynton Beach Chick-fil-A 1560 W. Boynton Beach Blvd. Lake Park Chick-fil-A1262 [...]
UYI Founder & President Bill Hobbs’ favorite Christmas gift arrived at the office on December 23rd — five boxes of his first book, My Longest Drive: One Man’s Passion for the Urban Poor. “I decided to write this book to tell my story of what I consider my longest drive, which for me was leaving [...]
I listened to this amazing interview with theologian N. Thomas Wright and author Anne Rice. I was intrigued to see Anne Rice’s name. I’m aware of her books about vampires and witches. I saw the movie based on her book Interview with a Vampire and, I gotta admit, loved it. Rice is a prolific author. [...]
I met Ed in Sudan. We were both there working with Far Reaching Ministries on different projects. Ed was taking pictures for an article about the ministry and it’s leader, Wes Bentley, for Calvary Chapel Magazine. Compean photographed and wrote about the work FRM was doing in Kenya, Uganda, and Sudan. I was teaching at [...]
I just finished one of he best books I’ve read in awhile. Too Small To Ignore – Why Children Are the Next Big Thing by Wess Stafford is interesting and made me pretty emotional. Stafford is the director and CEO of Compassion International. His book is the story of his life from growing up as [...]
TTR is a pretty cool web site featuring the missionary travels of Tim Scott, Will Decker, and Michael Scott. They’ve posted bio’s of several missionary innovators and heroes. I’ll re-post the biographies from their site here over the next few weeks. William Carey, born in 1761 and known as, “The Father of Modern Missions” stirred [...]
The influence of the senior pastor of Calvary Chapel Spring Valley on the lives so many men and women in ministry today is tremendous yet mostly unknown. I learned from him, while in Bible College, how to study the Bible using no commentaries – just the Bible. In the nineties, multitudes of Bible College students [...]