by Rhett Smith | Apr 15, 2015 | Podcast
As I say in the introduction of this podcast, Wess Daniels is one of the smartest guys that I know. I first met Wess about ten years ago or more when I was a student at Fuller Theological Seminary and pastoring at Bel Air Presbyterian Church. I started hanging out...
by Rhett Smith | Mar 26, 2009 | Technology
As I continue to use and get more acquainted with Logos Bible Software, I will post and bring some of these things to your attention, as I hope you too may find them useful. I’m currently using the Scholar’s Library and I’m amazed at how convenient...
by Rhett Smith | Feb 24, 2009 | Leadership
I hate being captive in an audience when the people on stage don’t have a feedback loop going with the audience. We’re used to living a two-way life online and expect it when in an audience too. Our expectations of speakers and people on stage have changed, for better...
by Rhett Smith | Oct 28, 2008 | Leadership
The Context Last week I posted a blog, Becoming A Heretic on Church Ministry. I was playing off what Seth Godin says in his new book Tribes: We Need You To Lead Us. You can find my review of the book at Leadership Network. Godin says: Challenging the status quo...
by Rhett Smith | Oct 6, 2008 | Leadership
I found this link to Tim Keller’s preaching notes here, thanks to a link from DJ Chuang’s site who compared them to something belonging to Jason Bourne. It’s just fascinating to me to see the many different ways preachers, speakers, teachers, etc....
by Rhett Smith | May 31, 2008 | Leadership
Of all the topics I’m going to address in this series, this seems to be the no-brainer to me. I started blogging about 4 years ago at the encouragement of one of my students at the time, Jared Kleier. He set up a blog for me on our college website and away we...
by Rhett Smith | Feb 20, 2008 | Leadership
Jon Sampson has a good post on what he is learning from other pastors. This particular topic is about what David Fitch says he wish he had done over the last several years of church planting. It’s a good read. I’m curious what you all think of...
by Rhett Smith | Jan 28, 2008 | Leadership
I believe that the time of long lectures, when someone spoke for an hour and the audience was condemned to sit and listen to whatever they were given, is…perhaps over–not just for me but for everyone. What we need in theology and in the church is–Oh, I don’t want to...
by Rhett Smith | Jan 24, 2008 | Leadership
Brian Kiley, who was a former student in our college ministry, and is currently a student at Fuller, has a great new blog. Live Generously. I especially love his latest post on “speaching.” Check it out. Brian, I’m wrestling with this right...