The Dating Dilemma
Thursday, May 22nd, 2008 Posted in Family, Tony Sisk | 63 Comments »Today's post is in honor of my oldest daughter's birthday. She turns eleven today and is maturing into a bee-yoo-tee-ful young lady. I want to have her best interests at heart and my wife and I have spent much time ...
Thoughts on Breakthroughs in the SBC
Monday, May 12th, 2008 Posted in Baptist Life, Church Life, Tony Sisk | 6 Comments »My seven year old daughter is playing AYSO soccer. Calling it soccer is a tad unfair, because actually it is something more akin to what I call “ball herd”. A flurry of little arms and legs chases a small black ...
Ichabod?
Tuesday, April 29th, 2008 Posted in Church Life, Tony Sisk | 11 Comments »I am going to step out on a limb here. I may get pushed off; if so, I hope you will bandage my wounds and be gentle with your rebukes. There always seems to be a plethora of diagnoses for apparent ...
Holy Competition?
Thursday, April 17th, 2008 Posted in Church Life, Tony Sisk | 36 Comments »Several years ago, I bought a Saturn sedan. The primary reason I bought it was because of Saturn’s “no-haggle” approach. GM’s tag line, “A different kind of company, a different kind of car,” worked. Having been duped at another time ...
A Book Post
Friday, April 4th, 2008 Posted in Books, Tony Sisk | 9 Comments »Like most other pastors I know, I love to read, that is when I have time. I typically split my reading between fiction, theology, classics, devotional, and the occasional middle school level adventure book (some of my favorite books are ...
Confession and Community
Tuesday, March 25th, 2008 Posted in Church Life, Discipleship, Tony Sisk | 4 Comments »An angry church member caught the pastor at the door after the worship service. “Why is it you always preach on sin? Can’t you find something else to preach about? It seems all I ever here from the pulpit anymore ...
On Black Sheep and Lost Sheep
Wednesday, March 12th, 2008 Posted in Evangelism, Family, Tony Sisk | 8 Comments »I want in this post to pose to our readers a question that is a devilishly hard one to answer. I believe it is one that, were we each to search our hearts, it is one we have asked of ...
Mrs. Francisco’s Hands
Thursday, February 28th, 2008 Posted in Church Life, Ministry, Tony Sisk | 5 Comments »This past Friday, I had the blessing yet arduous task of officiating at yet another funeral. This funeral was especially strenuous for me because I had to drive a 600 mile round trip to get there. I just recently have ...
The Teeth of Our Exertions
Tuesday, February 19th, 2008 Posted in Evangelism, Tony Sisk | 12 Comments »I am not an evangelist. I do try to do the work of an evangelist, though regrettably I am not very consistent. Complacency is an easy affliction to succumb to and I myself suffer somewhat from it. Many spiritual disciplines ...
Character Formation in Children: Not a By-product
Tuesday, January 22nd, 2008 Posted in Discipleship, Family, Tony Sisk | 16 Comments »I wrote this post over a year ago at my personal blog after attending a homeschooling conference. Schooling issues are something we have not discussed much here at Impact if at all and after Roger's stellar post a few days ...
