As we continue into this Advent season, I want to reshare a video about the Christmas mission. The Christmas message, from the very beginning, is proclaimed as good news of great joy for all people. Our mission is to spread this good news to the ends of the earth. May...
After 40 years of praying and believing for a building for Victory U-Belt and seeing and experiencing God answer that prayer, I thought about how long it takes for the promise of God to happen. In Bishop Juray Mora’s new book, Faith Challenge, I read his devotional...
In today’s Think Like a Leader, I talk about how to think biblically as a mission leader. In Acts 14, Luke describes the apostolic mission pattern of Paul and Barnabas. Their mission strategy included three sequential steps that we would be wise to follow: Preach the...
To think like a leader means understanding the difference between merit and mercy—between earning something due to what we’ve done and receiving something regardless of what we’ve done. In Psalm 143, David makes ten bold requests of God. Is he making his requests...
We see so many extremes about what faith is in the church world today. As leaders, we need to think biblically to see what Jesus said about faith. In Mark 11, Jesus describes what faith in God looks like with what I call five habits of faith: Speak Don’t Doubt Ask...
In over four decades of being a pastor, my life and ministry have been driven by two passions: the local church and global mission. For some, those are tension points, but for me, they work hand-in-hand. In Mark 11, Jesus makes three adjustments that help describe who...
