It may be an understatement to say that the church rules about who ministers can and can’t marry have been catastrophically dividing the western church in recent decades. In … read more

Standing on shores of the Caribbean Sea on the Island of Barbados, I realized: This is where people wreck their lives. I don't mean Barbados. What a beautiful people! What a… read more

The essence of strategic thinking is to shoot an arrow straight into the heart of the community. It is about simultaneous church growth and community development. That arrow is a… read more

A few months ago, I joined the board of our local hospital. It’s a small facility in a rural town, boasting remarkably high quality of care. Part of my interest in joining… read more

Too often structure (budget, building, calendar, how decisions are made) drives our church rather than the mission. While structure is a good and necessary thing, we sometimes… read more

One struggle I’ve witnessed consistently with leaders — including this one — is we drown in information overload. There are more good ideas than we can ever… read more