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Creating a core team: Leading your team members
Before we started our church planting process, I had a seasoned pastor remind me that if a church is birthed with deformities, it is going…
9 characteristics of a church planter: Leadership
No one has ever called me charismatic. I’m not a raging extrovert. And I’m certainly not the type of visionary that seems larger than life….
Ambassadors for Christ
If you’ve heard me speak or if you’ve read any of my books, what I’m about to write shouldn’t be new to you; if you’re…
Money matters: Staff and salaries
In 2010, my family moved to Boston (one of the most expensive places to live in the U.S.) with a church planting team to plant Redemption…
How to choose songs for your church
As a worship leader, one thing that I have learned is that art is very subjective and contextual. For example, while The Mona Lisa may…
Where is church planting in the Bible?
The majority of Christians I meet like the idea of church planting conceptually but would never give serious consideration planting one themselves. One reason many…
How to look at Christian miracles
I know a lot of people who really get tripped up by miracles in the Bible. Even Christians aren’t always sure what to make of…
How to share the message of Christ with our neighbors
How in the world do we, as believers, carry out the Great Commission? Jesus wasn’t joking when He told His followers to go out into…
Multiplication: Developing leaders
In his letter to the Ephesians, the Apostle Paul has a lot to say. He speaks about the preeminence of Christ, the gospel of grace…
Sending Church – Commissioning
When you begin to rattle off the names of the great characters of the Bible, there are some obvious names that come to mind: Jesus,…
The Team Dream
We’ve all heard the epitaph of the Church Planting Graveyard…80% of church plants fail in the first five years. The quickest way to reduce that…
All You Need is Love
https://vimeo.com/140101933 86% of the people in Morgan County, Utah belong to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. How do you start a Southern…
Pastor Dad: How to Lead a Family Devotion
Each evening at exactly 7:00 pm, my wife and I call our children downstairs for a family devotion. All 3 of our boys (ages 7,…
Six Ways to Evaluate Your Church’s Strategy to Assimilate New Believers
Maybe you’ve seen it happen. A new believer joins a local church, and is thrilled by his changed life. He shows up at every church…
The goal of Christ-centered preaching
Baptists through the years have emphasized the need for Christian preachers to preach the unsearchable riches of Christ. John Broadus summarized his approach saying, “The…
4 reasons why Mercy Ministry is absolutely vital
If I say that mercy ministry is absolutely vital—which I think it is—to a church’s local mission strategy, what arguments would I put forward to…