Seven Ways Your Church Must Deal with Rapid Change
Though it is cliché, change is the constant in our culture. Even before COVID, the world was changing steadily and constantly. When the pandemic...
Planting Gospel Hope In the Hardest Places
Most of us can’t imagine trying to raise a family on just 50 cents a day. Yet deep poverty is the reality for one...
Advancing the Gospel In a Post-covid World, Part 2
Previously, I shared with you that technological platforms now exist that allow us to reach the same audience time and time again and be...
How the Stand and Greet Time Disappeared In Churches (and How to Replace It)
You don’t hear much about it today, but it was a topic of amusing debate a few years ago.
Its most common name was “stand...
5 Truths to Rehearse In Loneliness
If you’ve been in ministry for any length of time, you’ve experienced people walking away despite your prayers, tears, love, energy, and time. You...
Joe’s Interview About Spiritual Maturity
Let him who thinks he stands take heed, lest he fall. (I Corinthians 10:12)
When a friend texted to ask if he could interview me...
7 Benefits of an Often Overlooked Planning Tool: the Pre-mortem
Jesus recognized the role good planning plays in life and ministry. He said, Suppose one of you wants to build a tower. Will he not first sit...
3 Things Church Planters Need to Know About Fundraising
The past three years of church planting have revealed some areas where I lack gifting. But the work has also revealed other areas of...
Your Work for God Will Never Be In Vain
Is what I am doing really making a difference? Does it even matter? Individuals often ask these questions—individuals who find themselves in the throes of life,...
5 Faulty Assumptions About the Future Church
As you know, it’s been a tough time to lead in the church over the last few years.
What makes it even harder, though, is...