by Steve Sjogren | Sep 21, 2018 | Church Leadership
One of the classic children’s books of all time came out nearly 100 years ago – The Little Engine Who Could. It lays out the exact way that most of what is worth pursuing in life is attained. Life seems to be designed to get us to either give up our goals or to give...
by Bill Easum | Sep 19, 2018 | Church Planting, Church Revitalization
Recently, someone asked me to boil down the concept of multiplication as far as I possibly can. So here goes. Looking at many of the churches that are multiplying I’ve noticed there are five things that I see in every one of these churches and oddly enough they...
by Ed Stetzer | Sep 10, 2018 | Church Leadership, Church Planting
At some point in our life, each of us has to learn the necessity of taking the long view. Deferred gratification causes us to live differently. We continue our education now so that we’ll have more opportunities after we graduate. We save today so we can have...
by Neil Cole | Aug 6, 2018 | Church Planting
Some have said that Paul only started 14 churches in his lifetime. If so that is a remarkable thing, but I tend to think there are more than 14. I would assume that there are some churches started that were not necessarily mentioned as churches in the NT. For...
by Rice Broocks | Aug 3, 2018 | Church Leadership, Church Planting, Outreach and Evangelism
I’ve been deeply challenged by the tireless efforts of the men and women that advance the cause of the “new atheism” into the empty hearts of postmodern westerners. Nature abhors a vacuum so, in the absence of faith, unbelief or atheism becomes the...
