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A couple years ago, my wife Jen and I took a cruise from Seattle to Alaska for our anniversary. It was awesome. We had never been to Seattle, so we decided to fly in a few days early to take in the city. We did all the usual stops. We stood on the observation deck of the space needle, Jen caught a fish at Pikes Place Market, and since we’re both huge coffee lovers, we figured we’d better check out the original Starbucks while we were there.

“In answer to your inquiry, I consider that the chief dangers which confront the coming century will be religion without the Holy Ghost, Christianity without Christ, forgiveness without repentance, salvation without regeneration, politics without God, and heaven without hell.” ~William Booth (Methodist preacher in the 1800′s and founder of the Salvation Army)   This warning [...]

Just imagine. You are strolling around in Berlin. All the sudden the spirit leads you to a middle aged woman who is pulling a little cart behind her filled with scrap metal. I am stopping. I am walking towards her. I am starting to talk to this woman I had never seen before. She is [...]

I married a sailor.  Never in a million years did I expect to be in the ministry.  First off, we weren’t even Christians when we got married.  And secondly, we had no training whatsoever.  “But God…”– a phase commonly used in Scripture – had other plans for us. Maybe you’re in a similar situation. Or, [...]

A church planting colleague once said to me, “I keep hearing about how we are supposed to be balanced.  But I’m not sure I find the idea of ‘balance’ in the Bible, and I don’t think of myself as very balanced.”  Church planters might agree with that.  After all, planting a church normally means going [...]

The number one requirement for a successful church plant is a certain quality of leadership. This leadership, in my mind, has two primary threads: what I call “the mojo” to start a church—that is the gifts, temperament and spiritual entrepreneurial bent. The second thread has to do with character, style and what has been called [...]

“He shoots! He scores!” You hear the basketball announcers proclaim. “What a fade-away jumper!” and the crowd goes wild! A fade-away shot in a basket ball game can win the day. A fade away in church planting can ruin the day. One of the greatest challenges a new church will face is staying on target. Fading [...]