by Jeff Christopherson | Apr 19, 2024 | Church Health, Church Planting, Discipleship
Christian discipleship is what happens when people live daily with Jesus. Jesus drew incredible, mammoth church-sized crowds during His earthly ministry. But many people had different agendas. The Gospels reveal that Jesus excused more people from the crowds than He...
by Jeff Hoglen | May 1, 2023 | Church Health, Church Leadership, Discipleship
Churches are made up of imperfect people, so it should come as no surprise that conflict sometimes arises. Unfortunately, how that conflict is dealt with can have lasting consequences. While disagreements can be stressful and unpleasant, they also offer an opportunity...
by Dave Workman | Oct 22, 2020 | Church Leadership, Communication / Preaching, Discipleship
For some unknown reason, I recently stumbled across a 60-year old interview with Ayn Rand by Mike Wallace. As you probably know, Rand’s philosophy was and is controversial to this day: a laissez-faire capitalism and hyper-individualistic philosophy. Her two novels,...
by Phil Spry | Aug 20, 2013 | Church Leadership, Church Planting
Nearly everyone is looking for the magic bullet that will propel their ministry into visible significance. Most of the church planters I know who have had remarkable results do not really know why it happened. I tell this story to remind us all that it is by God’s...
by Scott Thomas | Oct 22, 2011 | Church Leadership, Church Planting
Spiritual and church leadership is tough for even the best of leaders. Behind closed doors, every leader will admit being tired, frustrated, angry, depressed, confused and attacked. The Apostle Paul’s protégé, Timothy was about to take up his work he needed to be a...
