Rescued and Renewed
Allow the Light of My healing Presence to shine into the deepest recesses of your being—cleansing, healing, refreshing, and renewing you. Jesus Calling
The year 2020 proved...
Pastor, Make Peace with Lowliness
Every church planter expects to begin from a place of lowliness. But rare is the church planter who makes peace with lowliness. I’m not talking about...
The Sin of Informality
Perhaps the most common form of misusing the name of the Lord in our time is the one I have saved for last: speaking...
5 Questions to Assess Your Maturity
Maturity is one of the eleven competencies that Acts 29 considers essential when assessing church planters. You can explore the Competencies further on the Acts 29...
Fighting for Moments of Joy and Hope
On the Jesus Calling® Podcast, author Dawn Barton shared how she’d lost a child, survived rape, beaten Stage 3 breast cancer but lost her sister to...
Faith Strengthening Our Biggest Spiritual Muscle
On some days, your circumstances and your physical conditionfeel out of balance: The demands on you seem far greater than your strength. Days like...
Choosing Your Open Door
It’s often been said that when God closes one door, He opens another. We see this as people lose jobs, get demoted, or choose...
Four Ways to Lead Your Children Into a Church Plant
Planting a church meant pulling our children out of a network of relationships they loved into a church with few children of their age....
The Danger of Diversity
I’m not really a fan of clickbait. So before you read any further, you need to know that I think diverse churches are a...
How Do I Trust God When It Seems He Didn’t Come Through?
Trust is like a staff you can lean on as you journey uphill with Me.If you are trusting in Me consistently,the staff will bear...
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Course Corrections to Church Growth – by Jason Swann
We took over a 36-year-old church rebounding from the moral failure of their Senior Pastor on the other side of COVID. We came in...
Ai and Church Answers: Full Disclosure
Note: This article is original. None of it is AI-generated. (You will understand why I led with this disclaimer later in the article.)
Adding to...
4 Things to Consider When Using Ai for Business
Artificial Intelligence is all the rage right now. It feels like everybody is using it. That’s because many people are utilizing the new tool of the...
