For something so simple, we make our time with God one of the most complicated things we do. Just as we don’t fret about how much time to talk to our spouse, children, or friends, we make spending time with our Lord so much more complicated than is it. Is it best to have a…
Discipleship-first Friends, The United States is the midst of big change. First, it was COVID-19 and all the changes around which everyone had to adopt. Then, it was economic shock. And now it has moved to public protests, demonstrations, and civil unrest. Now, it has moved even further with changes in police departments, sponsorships, corporations,…
Have you heard “Who’s your one?” This popular phrase is being used quite a bit these days in churches, mostly by pastors to help motivate their church members to reach people for Christ. “Who’s your one?” is an effective way to emphasize the importance of personal evangelism and connecting with people who are still far…
There is a lot happening under the surface in our culture. “I do not understand what is happening in our world . . . I do not know what to think . . . or who to trust?” I have heard those words repeated to me in private conversations too many times to count. Who…
Spiritual maturity is revealed more by our relating than by our knowing or by our going. That’s an uncommon belief. Churches throughout the world pursue maturity through teaching and preaching that’s aimed at the head and feet, not the deepest parts of a person’s heart. For me the result was a faith that understood what…
Kevin and his team spent a lot of time and money to host a large group leader training at the church. As the event started, he sat in the back and looked across a half-empty room and was disheartened by the light attendance. As the night finished, despite maximizing every minute of the event, there…
In J. Oswald Sanders classic work “Spiritual Leadership”, he called servanthood “the Master’s master principle.” He says, “Jesus was a revolutionary, not in the guerrilla warfare sense, but in His teaching on leadership. The term servant speaks everywhere of low prestige, low respect, low honor. Most people are not attracted to such a low-value role….
Let me ask you two important questions: Do you make time for private worship in your daily life? If not, I can relate. For the first couple of decades of my Christian life, I did not know what a time of private worship was or why it was necessary for my walk with Christ. Thankfully,…
Regardless of whether you’ve been a Christian for multiple decades or are a new Christian, you maybe be struggling with how to understand the Bible. The Bible is a long book full of different types of literature across 66 books. It includes narrative, poetry, wisdom, prophecy, personal accounts, and more. If you open the Bible…
We live in a broken, fallen world. Painful things happen to all of us that we can’t control. No one can control disaster. No can control disease. No one can stop death. No one can avoid disappointment and discouragement. These things and a host of other broken-world problems will attack you from the day you…
I was nervous about this 3rd and last mainstage session … but it ended up as strong as any session. We had two great speakers and thinkers – but they are very different. Mark Moore is a teaching pastor at Christ Church of the Valley in Phoenix, Arizona which has had an average attendance of…
In our second main stage session, we focused on what it means to follow King Jesus in obedience. Here are the five things we noted from the 2nd main stage speaker sessions: 1. North American’s Have a Problem with Obedience. We value freedom as a culture, and we have theologies that make obedience optional. These…
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