Church Planting for the Rest of Us

Friends, I am excited to announce two forthcoming lines of resources that are a result of a brand-new partnership between Cruciform Press (the publishing company Tim Challies co-founded) and myself.  I believe they can be a great help to you, your teams, your churches, and other church planters and missional planters. The Takeaway Series   The [...]

There is a reason why you hear pastors say that want to resign every Monday morning – because it is often true. In some ways, this is even more true for church planters. In addition to the inherent stresses and struggles of ministry, most planters also have the additional burdens of tight finances, a lean [...]

Click HERE to read it if you haven’t yesterday’s post. If you have, keep reading. This post is primarily for 2 groups of people: 1. Those of you who may have been leaning toward planting and you are now concerned that maybe you shouldn’t be. 2. Those who may be already a short distance into [...]

Like many of you, I love Twitter. Making new friends… Encouraging and being encouraged… Finding and sharing new ministry resources… Chances are, I don’t have to convince you of the value of its usefulness as a ministry resource. At the same time, I also don’t have to spill too much ink warning you of the [...]

So, as we continue to steam ahead here at CP4US, we have some REALLY, REALLY exciting things in the works–one in particular that we will let you know about in the next 2-3 weeks. (Drum roll…suspense building…love it!) Until then, let me tell you where we are going to be going. We hope to do [...]

Like many of you, I am working away at my Easter message. Here are some really helpful resources I have run across this week that I want to pass on to you. Feel free to pass them along. You’ve probably seen a couple of them already, but I wanted to send them on anyway. Driscoll’s [...]

As some of you already know, last week was hard. A good friend of mine disqualified himself from ministry due to an inappropriate relationship with a woman in his church. With the need for vigilance in this area is fresh on my mind, I want to try to redeem this tragedy by offering the following [...]