4 Steps to Finding a New Church
Year after year we see newly believing students graduate college and head to a new city for a new job looking for a church to attend. Here are some things to consider when looking for a new church.
3 Keys to Catalytic Movement in the First 3 Years of Church Planting
There is a big difference between planting a church and planting a church-planting church. Around year three, new church plants must ask themselves this question: Will we play it safe and grow bigger, hoarding leaders and resources to ourselves while clinging to the comforts of addition? Or will we release control, send our very best people away and continually embrace the thrill of multiplication?
Meet your future church: Generation Z
Here are 10 things you should know about Generation Z if you want to impact the current generation of college students.
13 Books to Supercharge your Summer
As we travel, as we drive, as we carve out afternoons in the sun, let us commit to growing in knowledge and truth together as a church.
Biblical Womanhood: Is there freedom there?
Through Scripture we can see three major attributes of women that reflect God; one might even say they are the essence of womanhood. A godly woman embraces her femininity by affirming, nurturing, and receiving; this leads to the flourishing of the Church.
Motherhood: Just another form of discipleship
Giving up your body is a self-erasing experience, and through it I experienced Jesus in a new way.
When your community rejects God's will for your life
How do we handle well-meaning Christians who oppose God’s leading? My decision began to expose the reality that I wasn’t on the same track as many of the people who had considerable influence over my life.
What is God's will for my life?
God’s will dominates collegiate ministry conversations. And if we’re not careful, these empty phrases dominate as well. Why do we run to quick answers when it comes to God’s will?
Support Raising & Disciple Making
If you have the opportunity to raise support, or are invited to support the ministry of someone else, I challenge you to think beyond the transfer of funds and see the larger opportunity God has given you. It’s not a “necessary evil,” it’s a discipleship opportunity.
The Resurrection Leads to Multiplication
We long to see resurrection power fuel a movement to plant churches in college towns.
Good Friday: Because Jesus is Powerful Enough to Do Anything
Last year I explained Good Friday to my 3 year old. When I got to the part of Jesus being nailed to the cross Harper yelled out, as if she had a great idea, “DAD, DAD, WHY DOESN’T JESUS USE HIS POWER? WHY DOESN’T HE USE HIS POWER?”
What's the Purpose of Short-Term Mission Trips?
God is advancing His Kingdom all throughout the Earth, and we must choose to closely align ourselves and our purposes with the mission of God.
The Power and Purpose of Prayer
How did coming to the presence of the God of the universe and asking him to intervene in a broken world become “thoughts and prayers,” a trending meme of irrelevance?
Lent and the Discipline of Prayer
This year for Lent we want to corporately focus on the discipline of prayer. Here’s the plan: A church-wide commitment to pray for 1 hour a day for 40 days.
The Blazes of Movement
Hudson Taylor, a 21 year old kid with little education, sparked a movement in China that has yet to cease simply by trusting in God for big things and refusing to rest until he had spent his all in the completion of the Great Commission.
A pastoral word to a hurting campus
God is not simply aware of our suffering, He is grieved by it. He responds to our pain with a Father’s heart: I hear you. I see you. I know you. You are never alone.