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Getting the message right is only a quarter of the task for the teacher. Communicating the message so that others understand the content only brings the teacher to half of his or her role. Seeing the content applied well in the listener’s context is another 25% of the task of the teacher, but still only [...]

Berlin – a world city. I am in love with this city. It is the only German speaking world city. In contrast to many cities of its history and size with 3.5 million inhabitants, Berlin is still unfinished. The 2nd World War and the Cold War divided the city from 1945 until 1990. In only [...]

In a book by Julian Lewis Watkins, The 100 Greatest Advertisements, Sir Earnest Shackleton is quoted as having placed an ad in a London newspaper at the turn of the last century looking for men to join him on an expedition to the South Pole.  It read:  “Men wanted for hazardous journey.  Small wages, bitter [...]

Stuck in networking neutral?  Not enough good contacts?   Church not growing the way you’d like? I find that a lot of church planters slip away from their heart’s desire—and their best growth strategy—once the church launches to routine public services and they get busy running the operation.  They need to be out in the community, [...]

Keep a cool head. Stay alert. The Devil is poised to pounce, and would like nothing better than to catch you napping. Keep your guard up. 1 Peter 5 (The Message) I should have known. I’ve been in church-planting ministry more than thirty years. Nonetheless, I have to confess, it snuck up on me. The [...]

I can remember fishing with my grandpa when I was a little boy. Fred Flowerday, one of nine boys and a girl born to a farmer in Nebraska. Fred knew how to fish. Grandpa taught me about “keepers”. Those of you who fish know that “keepers” are fish worthy of…well, keeping. If the fish was [...]

“Vision is vital, but you can burn your people out on unfiltered vision.” In recent years much has been made of the importance of developing and communicating a strong vision. The Scriptures speak of and model this vital element as well. With all that has gone on in recent years sometimes we have swung too [...]