Many church plants these days are referred to as “parachute drops.” That means the church planter and/or team come from one location to plant in another. Many t...
Daniel and I have been going through the book Church Elders by Jeramie Rinne talking about what our process would be to install a plurality of pastors at Redemp...
I do not have a green thumb. I like for my lawn to look good every year, but I hardly ever put the time into it that I need to. Needless to say, every year when...
It’s hard to make a strong exegetical case for using online and print graphics with excellence, so I’m not going to try to misuse Scripture to fit my point. How...
Church planting requires a level of flexibility that many are uncomfortable with. Things happen. On Sunday morning, the elementary school that you use for worsh...
The Saturday before Easter, I might have witnessed one of the scariest things of my lives. 2000 children in a fight-to-the-death, winner-take-all, battle-royale...
When you are starting a church from scratch, you’ve got to be able to develop all the teams necessary to function. And, on top of that, you’re starting every te...
Recently, several of us went to Promontory Point, Utah. If you remember back to your American History class, the golden spike was driven into the ground May 10,...
I’m a pastor, church planter, and husband as well, but one of my favorite roles I get to be is daddy. I love my kids dearly. They bring me so much joy, and I re...
Most of us understand that making disciples is the mission the church is called, but most of us have very different views of what that means. First is the knowl...