I just finished reading Creature of the Word: The Jesus-Centered Church by Matt Candler, Eric Geiger, and Josh Patterson. It is a solid overview of how the Gospel should shape and influence everything in the church from how we think, preach, worship, serve, do children and student ministry, and more. Although most pastors would agree that Jesus…
The following is a guest post by James Blewett, the owner and operator of youth-sermons.com and author of the book Can I Get Baptized in Fruit Punch. I wrote a previous article entitled How Senior Pastors Can Engage Youth During Their Sermons. And there were probably some Youth Pastors who were AOL. (Amening Out Loud) They thought…
When I was presented with the opportunity to review an early copy of the new book The Catalyst Leader, I jumped from my chair and did a happy dance. It is a terribly awkward dance that nobody should ever have to see. I am a horrible dancer. But I didn’t care. I was happy. Why…
From Brandon: The following is a guest post from Thomas Manzke, pastor at Central Christian Church in Valparaiso, IN. You can read more from Thomas at ThomasManzke.com It is 5:00pm Saturday night; you still have a sermon to write. You have done your study for the sermon but there is nothing that remotely looks like…
I just learned that the 2013 Exponential Conference – one of the premiere church growth, planting and multiplication conference in America – is allowing anyone to tune in this year for absolutely FREE! This year’s theme is DiscipleShift. Here is the description from their website: How can churches be more effective at making and releasing…
I just finished reading Andy Stanley’s newest book, Deep & Wide. It was a great read! Stanley gets vulnerable about the way North Point got started with a high-profile divorce and a church split (I would have bought the book to read that story alone). Then he breaks down the systems and thinking behind how…
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If you haven’t noticed over the last week, the content on this site has been a little less than usual. That’s because things have been way crazy for me and my family. My wife and I were expecting our second child to come mid March. But then we went to the Doctor last Tuesday for…
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