Welcome to the Blog page! I will use this page to share brief messages, which I hope will be informative, inspirational, and challenging. I will post several messages a month on this page. I also will share some experiences in my ministry opportunities. I would invite any responses to the things posted here. That response could be sent by e-mail at johned@johnedmathison.org. For more information about John Ed Mathison Leadership Ministries, visit our website at www.johnedmathison.org.
A few years ago Dr. Bill Bright founder of Campus Crusade, called me and invited me to a meeting of about 200 pastors and laymen in Atlanta. He then asked if I could come a day early to meet with a smaller group to do some planning. I immediately accepted the invitation. The smaller group [...]
One of the biggest challenges of a church today is to be up-to-date in doing ministry. The temptation is to keep doing things the way we have always done them—even though they may be much out of date. I preached a sermon entitled “A Dirt Road Church in a Interstate World.” It is so easy [...]
One door God has opened for me is participating with global church leaders to win one billion converts to Jesus Christ in the next ten years! This was part of a vision of Dr. Bill Bright, founder and chairman of Campus Crusade. The goal is also to start five million new churches! We have over [...]
One of the problems most of us have is making excuses for our mistakes. There is a very popular line that says, “It is easier to ask forgiveness than it is to ask for permission.” That is really a cheap view of forgiveness. It communicates that you can keep on doing the same thing over [...]