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Summer Synergy

You don’t need a massive budget or a construction crew to make a big impact.

When Familiar Becomes Careless

God wants to be in a relationship with his people that’s not marked by fear but love. Not apprehension, but an appreciation of his great grace and compassion.

There’s No Contradiction Between God’s Empowerment and Our Efforts to Battle Sin

The Christian life is not a choice between loving and trusting Jesus, and making an effort to avoid temptation and sin. It is not either/or—it is both/and.

John Mark Comer: The Apprentice

Almost all evangelical discipleship is built on the assumption that as a person’s knowledge of the Bible increases, their spiritual maturity will increase with it.

Here’s What Goes Through My Mind During a Sermon

At any point during a sermon, someone is moving around. Unless you’re doing jumping jacks in a leotard, it’s not likely to bother me.

What Do the First Two Commandments Really Look Like?

Love God. Love others.

Outreach Requires Knowing Your Church and Your City

Multiplication is the most exhilarating opportunity in life, period. Nothing better expresses the creative genius of bearing God’s image.

How to Boldly—and Gently—Reach Our Culture

We must be “gentle aggressors” who do not wait for people to come to us, but go to them with the gospel.

8 Steps to Create Margin in Your Life

How do you create more space for the things that matter in your schedule?

5 Tips to Survive Planting a Church

Here are the most significant lessons I've learned as a church planter.

Where Humanity Is Headed

Mankind has such capabilities and potential. However, he is always hampered by a dysfunctionality about himself: he is his own worst enemy.