by Rhett Smith | Jun 2, 2015 | Podcast
I have struggled with anxiety most of my life. The story of anxiety in my life begins probably somewhere between 1981 and 1986. Those were the years my mother battled breast cancer, eventually dying in 1986 when I was 11 years old. As best as I can remember, the onset...
by Rhett Smith | May 13, 2015 | Podcast
In the Summer of 2008 I was sitting in my inlaw’s home office working on their computer. My wife, 1 year old daughter and I had just moved from Los Angeles to Dallas to live a more compelling story, but we knew very few people except for some family we had in...
by Rhett Smith | Jun 6, 2013 | Faith
“Dictionaries are wonderful tools and we would be the poorer without them, but in Gospel matters they are among the lesser helps. The reason is that everything in the Gospel is personal, relational, and embodied in particulars. There are no generalities. Every...
by Rhett Smith | Mar 26, 2010 | Intentional Living
Wednesday night I had the awesome opportunity to share about my trip to Haiti with a couple of hundred students at Epic Student Ministries of Hope Fellowship. It was an amazing experience. Not only did I get to share about the hope that I witnessed in Haiti, I got to...
by Rhett Smith | Nov 5, 2009 | Intentional Living
[image by Maria Keay] For those who choose to take the journey, it is lifelong. The longer the journey, the more nuances it takes on and the more it opens up to broader experiences. Yet, a journey must progress step by step. So it is with our spiritual journey. (pp....
by Rhett Smith | Sep 30, 2009 | Leadership
The only time you might possibly see me up before 5am is if my baby daughter is sick and can’t sleep, or if I’m interviewing Jon Acuff, the writer of the uber popular blog, Stuff Christians Like. As luck would have it, I was up at 3:30am with my daughter...
by Rhett Smith | Apr 6, 2009 | Leadership
I’m pretty much stating the obvious when I talk about the amazing ministry impact that LifeChurch.tv is having all around the world. So go ahead and say “Duh, Rhett!” But the reason I bring them up is not specifically the impact that they are having,...
by Rhett Smith | Dec 12, 2008 | Faith
Will Smith was on Good Morning Texas talking about his new movie Seven Pounds yesterday and he began to talk about his value on the idea of “story” as in relation to his movie choices. I then sent out this Tweet: listening to Will Smith talk about the...
by Rhett Smith | Nov 11, 2008 | Leadership
Chris Brogan has a fascinating post, Communications in a Post Media World. He begins by saying, When Google is the front door, the side door, the hidden key under the mat, the cash register, the finder of everything we ever lost, and everything we wished we’d lost,...
by Rhett Smith | Dec 19, 2007 | Leadership
RO Smith over at Collection of Crumbs just finished his second post on our new youth ministry blog. It is titled, The State of the Postmodern Family (Part 2). Please check out his first post, The State of the Postmodern Family (Part 1). We look forward to having you...
by Rhett Smith | Dec 17, 2007 | Leadership
Check out Drews Sams over at our new youth ministry blog, Collection of Crumbs, as he starts his first post of six, on The Power of Story in Youth Ministry. Stay tuned for more writing on Junior High, High School and College Ministry.
