Looking back on my life, I realize now that I grew up in South Africa in the environment of an on-going revival. The revival had begun in my father's heart, and then in the church he was pastoring at the…
Sounds academic. Maybe too academic for you to bother with. But, before you tune me out, or click out of this blog, you may want to think twice. The enemy is using the absence of dialogical tension in our world…
We tend to despise small things in our culture...except maybe diamonds. We think small things are less exciting than the big things. Less impacting. Less effective. Less worthwhile. Until we run into stories like this. The young man was nineteen…
I can depend on it like the rain in Seattle: that evaluative question that will predictably be asked in the first five minutes of any introductory conversation with another pastor: “How many are in your church?” Though the phraseology may…
The well-worn story goes something like this: Over morning coffee a man looks at his wife and states emphatically: “I don’t care if it’s Sunday morning, I’m not going back to that church. It’s a waste of time. No one…
There are many voices today, speaking into the hearts of pastors about what they perceive as the Church’s greatest need. How to increase your numbers How to multiply campuses How to turn the pastor into a CEO How to lead…