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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.

The Outer Limits of Our Minds: 9 Ways to Engage Intellectually With Questions About Faith

God is not afraid of questions. He likes them. God has given us our minds and we need to use them for his glory.

The Outer Limits of the Inner Sanctum: 5 Ways to Make a Gospel Impact in Your Home

How you live your faith at home will have a greater influence on the next generation than you can dream or imagine.

The Outer Limits of Pain, Loss and Suffering: 6 Ways to Comfort People With the Gospel

Too many Christians are quick to give a flippant and often dishonest answer to the question, “How are you doing?”

Pray Before You Plant!

"When the church is considered a house of prayer, the blind find sight in it, and those limping through life are restored."

Dan Kimball: A Church of Many Pastors

"'Pastor' is a metaphor for someone who spiritually cares for people. I want to be a leader who makes sure pastoring happens."

Building a Healthy Team Culture

“A clear culture is like the white blood cell system of an organization and it gives you a better chance of self-correction.”

Church Change Without Compromise

“We must change our methods for shining God’s light into the world without changing the light itself.”

The Innovation Equation: Problems + Limitations = Innovation

Bobby Gruenewald: Our best ideas happen when we face real problems with constraints.