by bradhuebert | Dec 15, 2011 | church, Faith, Ministry, theology
Yanked from Yahoo this morning: “When the time came for Merriam-Webster to pick its top word of 2011, its editors decided they needed to be pragmatic. So they chose … pragmatic. The word, an adjective that means practical and logical, was looked up so...
by bradhuebert | Nov 22, 2011 | church, evaluation, Faith, Leadership, spiritual growth, vision
This fall a whole lot more people have been hanging around our church on Sunday mornings. It’s been amazing to watch the excitement build around what God is doing here. On paper, our average weekly attendance has grown about twenty percent in the last fifteen...
by bradhuebert | Nov 16, 2011 | church, Holy Spirit, Leadership, worship
What are you trying to do? This morning God niggled me as I mused about the sermon I’m prepping for Sunday. Honestly, I feel like I’ve been on a roll—preaching on the book of John has been a delight, and some pretty epic sermons have sprung from this...
by bradhuebert | Nov 3, 2011 | church, Faith, Ministry, spiritual growth
I’m a preacher. Believe it or not, when I’m up there at the pulpit, spilling my guts for the glory of God, there’s nowhere I’d rather be, nothing I’d rather be doing, no one I’d rather be. In the whole world. And much of what...
by bradhuebert | Oct 30, 2011 | church, Holy Spirit, Presence of God
This past week a Life Group leader in our church called me, bubbling over with excitement as she related “what happened last Thursday.” The study went… fine. The discussion was… good. The prayer time… began normally, but then…...
by bradhuebert | Oct 14, 2011 | church, evangelism, Faith, Jesus Christ
A couple of weeks ago I preached a passionate call to become living witnesses, to share our faith with a broken world. Jesus calls us to “go and make disciples,” and he’s got “all authority in heaven and on earth,” so we’d better...
