“The pastors of high-growth churches spent most of their time in prayer, study, and teaching.” Recently, Lifeway Research asked 200 pastors to provide an hour-by-hour calendar of what they do each week. The study included 101 pastors whose churches were in the top 5 percent in conversion rates. The rest were pastors of churches that […]
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John Piper's Upcoming Leave of Absence
As you may have already heard in the sermon from March 27–28, the elders graciously approved on March 22 a leave of absence that will take me away from Bethlehem from May 1 through December 31, 2010. We thought it might be helpful to put an explanation in a letter to go along with the […]
John Piper's Leave of Absence and What God Taught Him
I wrote this report for Bethlehem and have adapted it for this first day of 2011 on the DG Blog. It’s longer than a blog should be. My only excuse is that I did cut 263 pages. For eight months of this year (May–December), I was on a leave of absence. That meant I was […]
Britt Merrick: When My Heart Is Overwhelmed
Where is Francis Chan? India (December 2010)
Update #5 from Francis Chan Beyond Expectations It has been an amazing couple of months as you probably saw from Lisa’s updates. I don’t even know where to start. Once again, God far exceeded my expectations. He has a way of doing that… Now to Him who is able to do far more abundantly than […]
Where is Francis Chan now? (Dec 2010)
Update #4 from Lisa Chan Obviously…I am not meant to blog. I allow far too much time to pass, and too many things happen in the space of that time! I cannot believe December is here and we have been gone for six weeks now. Our time with the children at Life Impact and in […]