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Essential Elements: God’s Grace

At Gateway Church in Austin we concluded a series called “Essential Elements: Building Your Core Faith.” This week John Burke shared at the...

How Do You Define Winning?

I was having lunch with some pastor friends of mine last week and we were discussing how the word “winning” has been taken...

There is Something More Important in Your Life Than Serving Jesus

Matt Carter is pastor and planter of The Austin Stone Community Church in Texas, and we are grateful to have him in the Acts...

The Benefit Of The Doubt

The Old English Idiom – The Benefit Of The Doubt is an important life principle.  It simply means: to believe something good or positive...

He is Risen. Risen indeed!

Following Jesus’ trial and execution the disciples were a defeated rabble. If it had been left to them to take up the mission...

Everything Matters: A Post-Nihilistic Perspective of Easter

Nihilism says that nothing matters. Easter says that everything matters. Nihilism is the atheistic philosophy that recognizes the lack of an objective basis...

The Sharing Economy

I read a fascinating article the other day in Fast Company entitled “The Sharing Economy.” The article defined the “Sharing Economy” as a… “global trend to...

Can You Really Be Trusted With More?

This was one of my first posts ever… So many people we know are always looking for the next big thing, the increased responsibility,...

All That Died, All That Lives

“Easter is not a time for groping through dusty, musty tomes or tombs to disprove spontaneous generation or even to prove life eternal....

The Popularity Of The House Church (Nearly 4,000 In The U.S.)

The number of house churches in the U.S. is reaching over 4,000.

5 Outreach Methods & Practices

Author and speaker Tony Campolo weighs in on outreach methods and practices.

What Would the Prophet Do?

I took a break from writing last week to listen to an interview with Mark Durie, an Anglican minister who is also a brave...

Essential Elements: Humanity

At Gateway Church in Austin we continued a series called “Essential Elements: Building Your Core Faith.” This week Ted Beasley shared via video....

Don't Preach Jesus

Don’t preach Jesus as a means to moralism or materialism. If your preaching is not grounded in the gospel you will end up preaching...

Never Give Up

Yesterday I wasn’t teaching at Cross Point so I got the opportunity to go around and visit several of our other campuses. All of our...

The Power of Words

Words. You may not think yours are that important, that helpful. They are. Maybe you are have a small blog with 5 readers. Maybe...

The Cross vs. The Ladder

I can do all things… I can do all things… I have whispered these words to myself. I have held them close and allowed them to...

Remains of Pastor’s Wife and Friend Identified; OK County GOP Chair...

News surfaced this week that Tifany Machel Adams is the GOP chair for Cimarron County, Oklahoma. Adams is one of four suspects charged with kidnapping and murdering pastor's wife Jilian Kelley and Kelley's friend Veronica Butler.

Rebecca McLaughlin on Whether Christians Can Agree To Disagree About Same-Sex...

Dr. Rebecca McLaughlin joins “The Stetzer ChurchLeaders Podcast” to talk about how church leaders can respond to common arguments that use the Bible to affirm same-sex relationships, the “why” behind God’s design for marriage, and the “beautiful and glorious vision” Christianity has for friendship.

Outreach Leaders