Strategy, Method, And Analysis For Church Leaders
Our church recently sent staff to a part of the world where people haven’t really heard about Jesus. It’s church planting where there are no churches! I’m looking forward to some day making the trip myself. We’re partnering with Team Expansion. Check out their website. They need your support! Here’s a video of the trip, [...]
Every time our church does something like covering a Pink Floyd song as part of a Sunday morning service, I say to myself (sometimes out loud!), “Man I love this church!” “Why?” you say. Our church is unique in lots of ways, but the one thing we are clear about is our commitment to “Helping [...]
I definitely remember one of the things that stretched me most as a new believer. It wasn’t changing stuff that I had done previously, like eating too much, drinking too much, using bad language, looking a little too long at a beautiful lady walking by, etc. It wasn’t beginning to spend time in my Bible [...]
I recently had the privilege of being invited to “guest blog” on a friend’s blog. It’s Jon Stolpe Stretched. The post went up this morning. Pretty cool! The title is: Our Behavior Is Our Witness. It’s a few words on a corporate experience I had that stretched me as a Christ follower. How do you be “one [...]
I was reflecting the other day on the number of times I’ve been a part of helping our church (Christ’s Church of the Valley) prepare to welcome hundreds of new people on one of the most “visited” days of the year … Christmas Eve. This coming December 24th will be the 11th Christmas Eve we’ve done. [...]
Click on this link: Dirty Little Secrets! Dirty Little Secrets is a place where people can anonymously share secrets that have been eating away at them for years. It’s simple. You submit a secret, it gets screened for spam and needless profanity, and then it’s posted. Anonymously sharing a secret is a very important first step in dumping [...]
One of the challenges every growing church faces is the difficulty of continuing to grow through the summer months. My experience has been that this is definitely true in the northeast. I don’t understand it completely, but it seems like everyone is gone on the weekends. Around here, I think they all go to the [...]
Christ’s Church of the Valley’s newest series – Jesus Freak Check it out! Series Context: Christians feeling immense pressure to quit because of social pressure. People thought Christians were Jesus Freaks. The author of Hebrews writes: “You need to persevere…” (Hebrews 10:36) Perseverance is from the Greek “Hupomeno” (Hupo – under, Meno – to remain) [...]
The situation in Haiti is catastrophic to say the least. And, many of us are asking, “How should I respond?” Based on the information I’m getting, the very best thing to do for the people of Haiti is to give sacrificially to a Christian support effort. Donating to Lifeline Christian Mission will literally provide assistance immediately. [...]
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