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2020 has made it to the homestretch! As we get ready to enter into the final month of a year that will probably cause a lot of groans and eye rolling whenever it is brought up in the future, many people are likely just ready for the year to come to an end. While many… Continue reading Please Don’t Skip Advent This Year
I have spent untold hours over the last couple of weeks reading through numerous reentry plans and guidelines offered up by church strategy consultants, a wide-variety of denominational bodies, and churches who are further along in their bell curve than my local community. As a pastor who is now beginning to work with my teams… Continue reading Reentry Plans: Strategy is a great start. But strategy alone is not enough.
I’m 36 years old and I’m from Dallas, Texas. So what does that have to do with anything? Well, it means that I hit my most formative “fan years” at a very specific time period and in a very specific place. In the early nineties, like every other 10 year old boy I knew, I… Continue reading Of Transplant Pastors & New England Sports Fandom
This is the ninth post in a series discussing a pastor’s personal involvement with international missions. While it is geared specifically to senior pastors, I believe that the principles apply to all leaders in the church. If you would like to start from the beginning and get a feel for the main thesis of the… Continue reading Pastors & Missions Reason #9
This is one part of a much longer series of posts in an attempt to convince Pastors and other church leaders to be intentional about having multiple men serve as preachers in your church. And yes, I even mean the little churches that can’t afford to pay a full-time pastoral preaching team too. To start… Continue reading Stop Preaching Reason #8
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