Dec 15, 2017 | Leadership
Early this year I asked the question, what will replace evangelicalism. I think evangelicalism the movement is dead (or approaching death) because the brand has been catastrophically destroyed. I am connecting labels and brands because outsiders consider them...
Nov 14, 2017 | Church & Culture, Leadership
I haven’t heard much about millennials lately. Bloggers used to be all over the subject, trying to dissect culture to appeal to senior pastors clamouring for answers to fill the generational loss in their churches. Maybe it’s because publishers don’t...
Oct 13, 2017 | Church & Culture, Leadership
The story of the Prodigal Son pits the wayward prodigal versus his obedient elder brother. The father rejoices with singing and gifts when the lost prodigal returns. The eldest son sulks in jealousy. Contemporary churches are built to cater and attract the brother of...Apr 27, 2017 | Leadership, On Faith
***Updated November 20th, 2017.*** I’ve been sitting on this post for a while. I’m posting as is, and will add over time, due to recent internet rage over #thingsonlychristianwomenhear that went viral on Twitter. Sarah Bessy started the revealing movement...
Apr 4, 2017 | Leadership, Missional
I’m working hard to complete a book I started in 2015. During research, I came across the mini-series published by the GOCN network (must reading for anybody interested in the development of the ‘missional’ church conversation.) Reading Alan...
Apr 1, 2017 | Leadership, On Faith
The United States Vice-President Mike Pence, is in the middle of a cultural row over comments published in the Washington Post, where he related a position touted by many conservatives on male/female relationships referred to as the ‘Billy Graham Rule’,...Oct 11, 2016 | Church & Culture, Leadership
Tuesdays are for posts on church development and leadership. __________________________________________ Remember this song? If faithfulness is what God longs for what we do with what we’ve been given matters, and not necessarily the end results. It reasons to...
Sep 27, 2016 | Church & Culture, Leadership
“What church do you go to?” or “are you going to church?” are deeply engrained sayings in the contemporary Christian experience and lexicon that need to be erased. When ‘church’ becomes the place replacing the people you live deep...
