The Next Old, New Church Movement
For nearly two millennia, Christianity has followed a congregational model of church growth, sparked in large part by Emperor Constantine, who in 313 AD,...
Accessing Your Spiritual Wealth
This is a three part post on spiritual investments: Knowing Your Spiritual Budget, Accessing Your Spiritual Wealth, and Making Spiritual Investments. Here is part two: Accessing...
Knowing Your Spiritual Budget
This is a three part post on spiritual investments: Knowing Your Spiritual Budget, Accessing Your Spiritual Wealth, and Making Spiritual Investments. Here is part one: Knowing...
Does your ministry suffer from bottle-vision?
It’s easy to set off on a vision to build great bicycles only to end up manufacturing water bottles. To clarify this seemingly...
An Apology for Christians on Social Media
What I am about to do might be deemed blasphemous by many Christians. It might even be regarded as absurd by the blogosphere, which...
The Evangelism Cure
I don’t like the word evangelism because of what it represents to my non-Christian friends. To them, evangelism has the connotation of having a...
Is it Time to Say Goodbye to Your Small Group?
It’s hard enough to maintain lifelong friendships. How can we expect to sustain a small group for the long haul? You may find this...
Faith is Like Child’s Play
I’ve just returned from taking a few weeks off to visit Germany. There, I did something I’ve never really done before as an adult—served...
True Humility Gives and Receives Appreciation
Our small group had what I’ll call a Kumbaya pow-wow last week. We went around in a circle speaking words of encouragement to each...
Stuck on the Parking Lot Tram of Life?
You may have memorized Ephesians 2:10 or know it in one form or another. Church leaders and those in ministry know it all too...