I can remember waking in fear nearly every Sunday morning. I served as a staff pastor in a small San Fernando Valley (California) church. My job was to oversee the operation of a cradle to grave...
Had an interesting email exchange about integrity in ministry. This is one of the most integrous people I’ve known—yet he’s concerned about “phoniness” in his own life and in churches he’s...
Bumped into an interesting experience on a trip to Sydney, Australia that points toward the role of one generation supporting the next as we plant churches and take the gospel to the nations. Had a...
This morning I awoke to two emails regarding two very different pastors. One positive and the other negative. One rejoices that 12 people showed up for the first meeting of the church he is planting...
Our first church planting venture was a near disaster. There was no sending church. The church we came from took an offering to help us, but that was all they could afford. They sent no people...
The church in America is in stasis. Growth is offset by churches (and people) dying. We need to ramp things up if we intend to live as salt in the earth. A look at the earliest Christ-followers is...
Paul had a bad day in Lystra when he was stoned and left for dead, “Jews came from Antioch and Iconium, and having persuaded the crowds, they stoned Paul and dragged him out of the city, supposing...
