For decades, many church strategies have been built around getting people in the community to come to your church. Big events. Great signage. Social media marketing. The attractional church. You get the picture. To be clear, there is nothing wrong with any of the “y’all come” approaches. Frankly, those are better than what most churches…

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Pastor Dave & the Old Vic get ready to cook and serve the Christmas lunch. 

My son Branson is notorious for getting hurt. Things just seem to jump up and get him. He falls off his scooter. He trips in the living room when nothing is around him. He’ll falls out of his bed. It’s gotten so bad that now when he falls, if his life is […]

Royal Ridge in the late 1990’sOn August 8th it became official. The Turpin family is moving back to Northern New England where I will be serving as the pastor of Royal Ridge Church of God (Scarborough, Maine)! Glory to God!My first contact with this ch…

Most people do not notice demographic changes because they happen slowly over many years. Then these changes reach an inflection point and everyone notices. In the United States, the 2020 census revealed an inflection point. The white population declined nationally for the first time since 1790. All the nation’s growth is attributable to people of…

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