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What is a generational mashup? It happens when generations collide and integrate. We now have three generations that can likely thrive together. This wasn’t the case with previous generations. Baby Boomers had a much less affinity with their parents than generations today. In fact Gen Y’ers today enjoy interaction with Boomers. They to a great [...]

Community There are 4 components that will set off Explosive Church Planting.  It starts with “Call” and moves to Community. There is power in numbers; 1 + 1 is not 2!  It is at least 3 every time, when dealing with people.  Amy, my wife, plus me, equals Amy and Nick – way more than [...]

The NFL season is back, and I attended the inaugural game Thursday night, September 8, when the Green Bay Packers hosted the New Orleans Saints.  Our family has had season tickets at Lambeau Field forever.  I saw something during that game, and maybe you did, too, that reminded me of the collegiality we need to [...]

I heard an amazing talk recently by Dr. Brian Fikkert, author of When Helping Hurts and Community Development Director of the Chalmers Center. His basic premise was that when we try to help the poor without having a proper definition of poverty we often do more harm than good to both those we try to help and [...]

One of the members of our church plant, the Berlin, Germany Vineyard, has adopted two African children who are HIV positive. This is unusual in that the adoptive mother is single but she feels called by God to readily share the love of Christ with those around her – including orphans. She particularly feels called [...]

As a planter, I used to stand up in front of people all the time and say: ”If ONE person comes to know Christ as Savior, it is worth it all!” The problem is that I didn’t really believe it fully. Our last Easter at New Hope in a tiny Ohio town where our first plant [...]

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.