Posts Tagged ‘Leadership’

*This post was originally published on 1 April 2013. No Man Can Serve Two Masters: Trustee Oversight, Financial Influence & a Seminary’s Resolve. No man can serve two masters. This is true, and never truer than in theological education. Individuals and groups compete for institutional influence, adding their voice and, if permitted, interjecting their hand, Read more

Last week Dick and Rich Bott invited me onto their radio program, “The Complete Story,” to elaborate on my recent article, “Seven Questions Every Donor Should Ask.” In that conversation, the Botts and I were able to tease out some of the implications of Christian stewardship, including the role of Midwestern Seminary in serving the Read more

I was recently honored to have a conversation with Daniel Darling of the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission about my role as a father. We spoke to issues such as the role that family plays in my identity, what it means to raise a gospel-centered family, and how we at Midwestern Seminary are training students Read more

Last week, I returned from my second Council of Seminary Presidents retreat, an annual event when the six SBC seminary presidents and their spouses gather for prayer, fellowship, and planning. My wife and I returned to Kansas City on a high note, and not just because we were thrilled to see our children and celebrate Read more

When published in 1971, Fred Craddock’s As One without Authority landed like “a bombshell on the playground of preachers.” In it, Craddock called for a new homiletic, for preaching to start with the hearer, not the text, and for preaching to be inductive, not deductive. Craddock argued preaching was in hopeless decline and the church Read more