In leadership & in ministry, WHO you have influence you is a very key ingredient. It seems very wise & prudent to carefully select which voices you are going to allow to penetrate into your outlook, attitude, worldview, decision making and direction.

Over the last 8 months I have been refining which voices to have speak into my personal development, professional insights and ministry direction. I don’t have all of this work done yet, but I want to pass along two new voices that are making the cut.

the first is a pastor out in S.C. — for those of you in ministry you won’t find the revelatory — named Perry Noble. He pastors a church called NewSpring. Read his blog… it is worth the price of the subscription (FREE). The best take aways are spiritual leadership and then church leadership, in that order.

the second is a pastor in New York named Tim Keller. What he has been doing as a pastor of the local church is very good, but what he is contributing to the intellectual dialogue in the world on behalf of Christ and the gospel is outstanding. His lectures and sermons would be termed ‘boring’ by the average evangelical church attender on the west coast, but if you can hang with the deliver the content will leave you thinking for a very long time. Be sure to check out his lecture at Google.