I read a “church planter’s survival guide” once that said that church planters should watch out for “bears.” It defined bears as those that would come into a ch...
I think one of the areas God keeps growing in me is in the area of dependence and contentment. It’s so easy to ride the roller coaster ride of emotions from day...
I’m the type of person that could very easily be satisfied working on a project by myself. The beauty of it is I can see something from concept to reality, but ...
Being a pastor’s kid probably brings up all sorts of jokes and stereotypes. Many of them, unfortunately, have some truth to them. There’s a lot of pressure bein...
We live in a day and age when people no longer use the yellow pages when they’re looking for businesses or churches. They go to Google. They may be searching fo...
When I was in college, I played a lot of NCAA college football. I usually played on easy, ran up the score, and get the highest possible score I could get. Even...
Developing balance in ministry planting a church has been one of the toughest things we’ve had to tackle yet. I use “we” because this is something that affects ...
We’ve all done it. We’ve looked at somebody else with some sort of envy. We compare our lives, our stuff, our jobs, our families, our churches, etc and think th...
When I was in seminary, the campus police chief started a gym in his backyard and had it open to any student who wanted to come by and work out. Every morning a...
"We choose to go to the moon and do the other things not because they are easy but because they are hard." -John F. Kennedy
When I was in college, they had t...