Posted by Mike McDaniel on Oct 12th, 2010 | 2 comments
I have been in Singapore less than 24 hours. I will not attempt to be an expert on the people, culture, or worldview. I put that disclaimer up front. I have, however, formed some first impressions that lead me to pray for this nation like never before. I have names, faces, and experiences to shape my prayers.
In the past 20 hours (I arrived at 1:30AM and I am writing at 9:15 PM), I have...
Posted by Mike McDaniel on Sep 29th, 2010 | 0 comments
My first exposure to David Platt was in hearing a message that he shared at the 2009 SBC Pastors Conference. He is a young pastor, passionate in his call, with a clear voice to a radical new future for the believers and churches who want to take the message of Christ serious and personal.
GPC is in the midst of a series of messages called Radical. We bought a copy of David’s book...
Posted by Mike McDaniel on Jun 10th, 2010 | 0 comments
How you comin’ on your 6 month emergency plan? Yeah, us too. Lori and I have learned a lot from Dave and still tune in. However, when we lived and worked in Africa we had the hardest time getting our brothers and sisters to understand some of the biblical truths on financial management, particularly saving money for the future needs they might have.
Gallup recently released a study on...
Posted by Mike McDaniel on May 26th, 2010 | 0 comments
I was interviewed for an article that ran in Arkansas largest paper last week. It has resulted in some interesting conversations and phone calls. I thought I would copy the article and put it in my blog so all 5 people who read my blog can see it.:) I am going to spend the next couple of weeks expounding on my thoughts as it relates to denominations life and future. There will be a lot of...
Posted by Mike McDaniel on Mar 27th, 2010 | 0 comments
I am so excited! My wife left me on March 16th with a group of 7 other women. This isn’t the first time she has left me. She’s gone to Amazon without me, bungied with a team of volunteers off the Vic Falls bridge in Zambia without me (while would anybody jump off a perfectly good bridge), she discovered, with 3 other ladies from GPC, a little village in just south of Timbuktu,...