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3 Ways to Respond to a Controlling Leader

Ron Edmondson offers insight for dealing with difficult leaders.

10 Reasons Why Churches Are Broke

Tony Morgan offers insights to help pinpoint church giving obstacles.

Defending Mideast Christians: Who Will Do It?

An editorial in the USA Today calls for the U.S. government to intervene in the protection of minority Christians in Muslim countries.

When You Think You Can’t Make It One More Day

Are there moments in your life when you think “I simply cannot make it another day?”  When those times of fear and frustration set in,...

The Attractional Basis of Neo-Reformed Church Plants YES OR NO?: or Don’t Try This at Home if You Live in the Secularized North

In a recent post on this blog I made the statement: “I have no doubt that the success of many of the New Reformed ...

30 Ways to Stay Alive to Missions

by Tyler Kenney In their 2010 year-end report, the Barna Group identified six major patterns emerging among Christians in America: The Christian Church is becoming less theologically literate. Christians...

7 Top Issues Church Planters Face, Issue #4: Systems, Processes and Cultures

Todd Wilson, Director of Exponential, and I partnered together on a research project to determine the most important issues facing church planters...

Who is Your “And”?

Around ten years ago, I picked up two prostitutes at a gas station. Reading that, I’m sure you have certain expectations about my...

Thank you – Erwin McManus

What we read shapes us, often more than we realize at the time. Sometimes that book we pick up from the shelf has a...

Get More People to Back Your Vision

When you’re presenting and casting your vision, always put your best foot forward.

How I'm Learning

A few months ago, we announced that we’re moving to New York to start a new church. And since we’re not moving...

Why People Don't Give and What the Church Can Do About It

I've learned a lot from Ron Blue over the last 10 years. Ron has a way of taking complex ideas and simplifying...

What If…Part Two

Last Thursday I wrote this post that hopefully got us thinking…let’s continue that line of thought with this… What if there was a cancer center...

It’s Time to Stop Pretending Abortion Is Anything Other Than the Ruthless Killing of an Innocent Human Being

I have some similar feelings about the following news story as I did about the abortionist in Washington who received mild discipline (“ethics” training)...

You Are Going to Be Just Like Your Parents = LIE

We are doing a series called LIES… You can read about it HERE. Here’s my message from Sunday.  One lie we believe, or at least...

Fake Havingitalltogetherness

I am a broken man. Tired of hiding it. My body is broken. Life has been hard on it. I try to not to...

Solitude. It’s Not Just About Being Quiet.

I wish I could live my life in solitude. No I don’t mean in a cabin out in the woods somewhere. I’m learning...

The Church…Not an Institution, but a Movement

It seems like every day I read another note written to one of our pastors about the new vision. Here is a portion...

Establishing a Mentoring Culture

Something amazing is happening at the Oak Leaf campus of West Ridge Church. For those of you who may be unaware, Oak Leaf and...

6 Extremely Powerful Questions for Simple Ministry Design

This is the second post related to a forthcoming ebook. The first post was titled the Tyranny of More, (6 Common Myths that Drive...

Sean Feucht, Eric Metaxas, and Russell Johnson Set To Lead ‘United...

On Thursday (April 25), political activist Sean Feucht will lead a “United for Israel March” at Columbia University alongside author Eric Metaxas and Pastor Russell Johnson of The Pursuit Church in Seattle, Washington.

Steve Robinson: How To Create a Culture of Service in Your...

Steve Robinson joins “The Stetzer ChurchLeaders Podcast” to talk about how church leaders can foster a culture of serving in their churches, raise up new leaders, and help people discover their giftings.

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