Over years of working with churches and church leaders in a wide variety of denominations and networks, one thing that continues to amaze me is how many people view planning and spirituality as completely separate and even antithetical practices. On the one hand, some...
When you are suddenly faced with limitations, such as my leg being in a post-surgical cast, it’s amazing how fast you can reprioritize what’s really important. My first priority is to be able to walk again and to perform the basic functions of day-to-day life. My...
I keep a personnel file on myself. I know that’s odd, but every once in a while it pays off. I recently had cause to look in that file and rediscovered a personal inventory I took a long time ago: SIMA: System for Identifying Motivated Abilities. The amazing thing...
Often why the discipleship process doesn’t multiply is because we leave it all up to one person. If one person disciples one other person, then that person disciples one other person… and so on. The assumption is that one person can bring another person to maturity...
For those of you that lean toward more of a simple church model without a corporate worship service, I have a question for you. I have been seeing a trend lately in people who just have a strong desire to be part of a corporate worship service of some kind—a gathering...
So much in life doesn’t go according to plan. No matter how responsible I am or how well I plan—things still get away from me sometimes, reminding me of the necessity of relying on the Holy Spirit. Regularly I try to step back from my ministry to ask, “Where is God...
