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I recently visited Sapporo, Japan. The snow was beautiful and preparations for the Ice Festival were quite interesting. Brought along an extra suitcase filled with winter clothes only to find the daily weather unusually warm, but still freezing overnight. We got fresh snow each morning. Then enough sun to make the snow soggy. Each night [...]

C4 is a famous plastic explosive that is small, moldable & extremely stable. A 2 pound 4” by 8” piece could completely destroy the vehicle you drive!  But, it cannot be detonated by throwing it against something, heating it with a flame or shooting it with a firearm. It must be set off with a [...]

This is the last of four questions that make up a “Blink Test” that determines whether your church has movement momentum or not.  I would encourage you to answer the previous three questions (#1, #2, and #3) on this site before you answer this final one.  This test is built on the premise of Malcolm [...]

A Body at Rest A law of physics, and a spiritual law. If a church (Body of Christ) is not moving, not causing motion and a co-motion, it will stand still, motionless. Not moving, touching or changing anything or anyone. It will stay that way, unless the church is “Bumped” and forced to move forward. [...]

Over the last couple years I’ve had the opportunity to sit with a number of pastors seeking to increase the missional posture of their church. As expected, this has proven to be easier for some than others, and more of an art form than a science. But among the many variables, we’re beginning to see a few common threads emerge among those seeming to gain “missional momentum”. Here are the top three practices we’ve observed.

Like my last two posts, this one is built on the premise of Malcolm Gladwell’s bestseller Blink that introduced the idea that our first intuitions and spontaneous decisions are often as good as—or even better than—carefully planned and considered ones. This is the third of four questions on a blink test for your church to [...]

Malcolm Gladwell’s bestseller Blink introduced us to a psychologist who learned to predict whether a marriage would last based on a few minutes of observing a couple. He also told about a tennis coach who knew when a player would double-fault before the racket even made contact with the ball. The point is that often [...]