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When Speaking Truth in Love Isn’t Easy

Never deliver a difficult message fueled by emotion. Preparation, not emotion, is what will strengthen your courage and help you realize positive and productive results.

Lebanon Baptist Church: A Sweet Way to Serve

Churches seem to have an expectation that people need to come to us. We need to change that paradigm.

Brandon O’Brien’s Top Books on Small Church Ministry

Rather than being a subcategory of American ministry, the small church is the norm. If you take a longer and broader view, most churches throughout history and in most parts of the world are and always have been small.

How Do You Know if You’re a People-Pleasing Leader?

10 signs you're letting others dictate your decisions

4 Times When It’s Necessary to Introduce Change

How to know when to strategically introduce change

Why the Jews and Samaritans Give Us Hope for Healing Our Racial Divisions

Wisdom for our current age from Luke and Acts

How We Can Have Peace in a Tumultuous World

How do we as believers get through this season and beyond without our anxiety meters shooting through the roof?

Modeling Evangelism for the Church

Aligning what we say with what we do

The 4 Types of People Attending Your Online Services

And how to respond to each of them

Can the Multisite Church Survive the Pandemic?

How the multisite church is pivoting to adapt to a new normal

6 Prayers for the Church as We Face a Second Lockdown

As COVID cases continue to spike and we may need to go back to doing church exclusively online, here are my hopes for the church.