Staying Connected in a Wireless World
by Sarah J. Bracey Recently, my husband and I retreated for a weekend and rented a cabin a few hours away. We also invited some of our family, including my two youngest sisters (seventeen and fifteen years old) to join us, thinking this would be an opportunity for us all to spend some time together in the great outdoors. When my sister arrived, her first words were “What’s the Wi-Fi password?” Perhaps the amenity of free Wi-Fi and her...
Transformational Leadership, Books, and Politics: An Interview with Allison Ball
by Frank Thornsbury You’ve probably heard the proverb, “Good leaders are also good readers.” Well, look no further for evidence of this truth than the life and career of Allison Ball, Kentucky’s state treasurer and the youngest female constitutional officer in the United States. She’s no stranger to the pages of an inspiring biography or a tangled spy yarn or the Book that matters the most. Indeed, Treasurer Ball herself seems to...
Church Music and Insomnia
by Daniel Webster Weekly since I was sixteen years old, I have stood before Christ’s church and led music within the worship service. Needless to say, while in this position, I have been learning throughout the process as much as I have been leading. I have said lately that many of the decisions I’ve made through the years in the area of music have caused me to lose sleep. While such a statement may actually be an overstatement, there...
What Makes a Sermon ‘Good’? An Interview With Jeff Jones and Jeff Manning (Part II of II)
by Jacob Riggs “The preacher . . . is the only one who is in a position to deal with the greatest need of the world” (Martyn Lloyd-Jones, Preaching and Preachers, 40). In this post, we continue our interview with Jeff Jones and Jeff Manning. To see Part I, click here. Can and does God use “preaching” that neglects or misinterprets the text? If so, why is it still important to proclaim what the original author meant? Jones: In Numbers...
What Makes a Sermon ‘Good’? An Interview With Jeff Jones and Jeff Manning (Part I of II)
by Jacob Riggs “The preacher . . . is the only one who is in a position to deal with the greatest need of the world” (Martyn Lloyd-Jones, Preaching and Preachers, 40). Preaching is the pastor’s primary task, but often viewed subjectively. Two people of similar backgrounds could listen to the same sermon and be impacted in different ways. One might believe the sermon to have been excellent, and the other may have slept through it or...
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