More thoughts from our Church Planters Boot Camp. . . Some church plants succeed.Others fail.Why? Here are some reasons new church plants succeed: 1. Above Average Leadership. Some leadership guru said: “everything rises and falls on leadership.” If you are not an...
I’m sitting in a classroom with a group of church planters listening to church plant guru, Kevin York. He really knows his stuff. I’m learning things I wish I knew twenty-five years ago. Would have saved me a lot of pain. Here are some thoughts from the Every Nation...
Seems like every day someone asks me what I think about Todd Bentley and the Lakeland revival. I try my best to avoid the discussion. I blogged about it here, and here. In case you haven’t heard, Todd is having some serious marriage issues, and it has now come out...
While at the beach a couple of weeks ago, I heard a divemaster strumming his guitar and singing a catchy (and depressing) tune during his lunch break: It’s gettin’ dark, too dark for me to seeI feel like I’m knockin’ on heaven’s door.Knock, knock, knockin’...
TUESDAY’S TOP 10 LIST Every wonder what goes through your pastor’s mind an hour and a half before the worship service? According to the “Clueless Church Planter” blog, here’s what is going on inside the brain of Pastor Dennis Sy 90 minutes before he walks to the...
Sitting in the Jacksonville airport answering emails while I wait on my delayed flight back to Nashville. Got an email from one of our Filipino preachers, a guy who has recently joined our weekend preaching rotation. (Our church has 64 weekend worship services in 14...
