Church Planting for the Rest of Us

In yesterday’s post I suggested that one way to get some much needed admin. help could be to bring on some college students and trade them mentoring for helping out around the office. Today, I want to offer just a few suggestions to help you get the right person in the right place to make [...]

My aim in all of my blogging is to serve my audience as best I can. Normally, this includes sharing videos, interviews and other posts, but I also like take time periodically to make folks aware of tech tips that help me do life and ministry that I believe can help you as well. In [...]

Roommates Meet Tim and Ted, brand new, computer-selected freshman roommates at the local Christian college. Tim became a Calvinist about six months ago. He reads Reformed books, listens to Reformed podcasts, talks incessantly about Reformed theology, and just got a “Soli Deo Gloria” tattoo. Tim is obnoxious. Ted, his roommate, is not Reformed. In fact, he actually doesn’t like Reformed [...]

A few months ago, I, like many of you, saw the promo’s for Sovereign Grace’s PLANT! conference. And I have got to say that I always love events where guys from slightly different tribes work “together for the Gospel” (pun intended.) Such is the case with PLANT! as well. Since then, I have been in [...]

Friends, As many of you already know, our family is responding to God’s call to adopt internationally. So far, we have linked up with a local agency and started the process. Only a few weeks and few bucks in with them, moving toward Ethiopia. In the past 24 hours, an adoptive family in our church [...]

Friends, Let me begin by saying this past year of keeping this blog has been a true blessing to me and my team. All of the shooting and editing videos, writing entries, training future planters and hearing from the growing number of you around the world has really been an encouragement to us and we [...]

It is a widely known fact that the work of ministry is never done. Too often as leaders, we find ourselves understaffed, overworked, and overwhelmed and on the brink of exhaustion. But what if there were a few healthy habits that we could develop that could help minimize our stress and maximize our effectiveness ? [...]

As many of you know, Leadership Network is sponsoring an upcoming online conference called “The Nines.” This year, they solicited videos from anyone who would like to record a 6-minute video about some kind of “game changer” truth (this year’s theme) that they had learned in life or ministry. This is my submission. Hope it [...]

I was raised in the mountains. If you weren’t, let me inform you that this is very different than being raised in the city. NASCAR. Pork rinds. Different. Life was hard there. Most of the men mined coal underground. People had to be tough to survive. For example, if you had a dog and it [...]

So, I’m not much of a sports fan. Between pastoring growing and multiplying church, 4 little kids, and writing, I just can’t keep up. But I know a good shot when I see it. Watch it and then we’ll talk. That was the gutsy three-pointer by junior guard Ali Farokhmanesh (how’s that for a name [...]