Dear Pastor,I know you went to seminary so you could preach amazing sermons about grace and redemption.  Perhaps you imagined becoming another Billy Graham where every sermon brought hundreds of people to Christ.  Maybe you preach by working your way through the lectionary, Sunday by Sunday.  You want to be original but profound.  You want […]

Shepherding my family and my church are intertwined. Some might advocate separating the two, but it’s impossible since my household is part of the local church. When I leave the church building, I come home to church members. The call to pastor a church is not an individual decision, but rather collective determination by a…

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[dropcap]H[/dropcap]ave you noticed the river of terrible news running through your Facebook feed? Spoiler: there’s a lot. The more awful the story, the more likely it’s going to get shared. In fact, if it’s horrific enough, it doesn’t even have to be true. One of the things that surprises me most is how many of these horrible news stories […]

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It’s with horror and fascination that I watch Donald Trump jockey to be the Republican candidate for president. It would be an humorous diversion if there weren’t so many people who seem supportive of the idea. It’s almost as if Mike Judge’s classic film Idiocracy was some sort of prophecy. On July 26, 2015, CNN posted the […]

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5 Reasons Christians Should Not Support Donald Trump

For years, the conventional wisdom has been that increasing the number of worship services is the best path to go. You rarely heard leaders advocating decreasing the number of services. The concern is that the reduction of choices results in lower over…

More and more churches are deciding to raise up staff from within their congregation. While I wondered about that direction when it first began to gain steam, I have come to see the value of it. Here are 10 reasons I encourage you to consider this opti…