Conference Report

Just returned from Christ Covenant Church in Charlotte, NC where Judy and I conducted a parenting conference. Christ Covenant is a large PCA congregration. The church campus is on about ten acres. The city even named the street “Christ Covenant Street.”...

Top Twelve books I read this year

My (Dave Farley) goal  in 2010 (along with Troy Evans) was to read 52 books. This may seem like a lot but I know of some people who read 300 books a year. I fell short of my goal by 1.5 book. As the year went on the books got shorter.  Thankfully we are not justified...

Do We Deceive Ourselves?

In his true story on WWII espionage, Operation Mincemeat: How a Dead Man and a Bizarre Plan Fooled the Nazis and Assured an Allied Victory,  the author notes a crucial ingredient that needs to be present in order to deceive a foreign power’s secret service. “...

Do We Need Church Plants?

Some complain when they hear of a new church plant. “We don’t need more churches.” However, in his book Breakout Churches: Discover How to Make the Leap Thom Ranier notes that “eighty percent of the churches in North America have either...

True Humility

In yesterday’s sermon Dave Nelson exhorted us to true humility. Here is how Spurgeon it. “What is humility? The best definition I have ever met with is, ‘to think rightly of ourselves.’ Humility is to make a right estimate of one’s-self. It is no humility for a...