10 Lessons I’ve Learned as a New Pastor
A strong courageous leader must learn to overcome past mistakes and failures in Christ.
Discipleship
Why Sharing Your Faith Matters?
We must get serious about reaching people who are far from God. There is a battle going on out there, and the church is losing ground.
6 Ways God’s Grace Transforms One’s Life
How can we withstand the attacks of the enemy for such a time as this? How can we go forward with this as we are being sanctified in the image of Christ?
Episode 25: Struggles of Reaching the Next Generation
Is your church or ministry struggling to reach the next generation?
Church Leadership: Prideful Pastor Versus Christ-filled Pastor
The shepherd leaders’ job is as John Calvin said it well, “The pastor ought to have two voices: one, for gathering the sheep; and another, for warding off and driving away wolves and thieves. The Scripture supplies him with the means of doing both.”
Episode 23: Destructive Nature of Private Sin
Dietrich Bonhoeffer puts it this way in his book Life Together, “Those who remain alone with their evil are left utterly alone.”
Episode 21: Five Reasons Why God Makes Us Wait
Do you ever wonder why God makes us wait on certain things? Whether good or bad? Why does God do that? Here are five points we lay out as we converse on waiting on the LORD.
Three Dangerous Leaders
Lately, I have had an opportunity to pull back from all the busy activities of ministry and to simply stop, reflect, and think. Here are three lessons I’ve learned about leadership over the past 10 years.
Episode 10: Is Anxiety Sin? How Should Christians Respond?
The longer I’m in ministry, it seems like anxiety seems to be more prevalent in ministry. How could we deal with our anxiety? Where does anxiety come from?
What is the Greatest Challenge you Face in Ministry?
So, for the church NOT to disappear, what should we do? That is the fundamental question that daunts us on a day to day basis.
How the Church Should Respond to Parents with Rebellious Teens
The threats upon the family are implausible. The question we as Christians must ask is this: “What should be the response of the church?”
6 Concentric Circles for Making Disciples
We are in the Great Commission by living empowered by the Great Commandment love.
Why Relevancy is Key in Reaching the Next Generation
Millennials represent the largest generation in America’s history with almost 80 million members. However, only 15% of millennials are Christians.
Aren’t Christians Supposed to Follow Christ?
The word “Christian” does not mean “one who admires Christ,” nor “the recipient of Christ’s blessings,” nor even “one who believes in Christ.”
False Assumptions of Discipleship
Discipleship is simply this; Disciples are called to know Christ, grow with Christ, and go for Christ.
The Ordinary Radicals: Radical Life of Ordinary Christians
This is absolutely a counter-cultural model. This radically changes everything of how we think and howe we function as a church.
How NOT to Make Disciples
The leaders of the first century church did NOT ask each other, “how many came to church last week?” That’s not how God measures success.
The Ordinary Christian Life vs. Radical Christian Life?
The ordinary Christian will always fight the status quo of lukewarm Christianity. The ordinary Christian will always fight nominal, passionless Christianity.
4 Myths About Disciple-Making
If your ministry has a leadership problem it has a discipleship problem. You can’t make disciples and not develop leaders.
3 What’s NOT Church Membership
Gathering of the saints needs to be one of the top priority of Christ followers, in fact it is crucial and essential to the faith! For the good of their own soul, for the mission of Christ, and for the health of local congregation.
5 Dangers of Church Skipping
“I love Jesus but I don’t like the church. I will never leave Jesus but I’m done with the church” people who make such a statement are walking away from Jesus.
Meeting Christ Changes Everything
If you’re saying you always been what you’ve always been then you need to ask if you’ve ever really met Jesus. Meeting Christ changes everything.
The Eight ‘Ds’ of Personal Discipleship
In this fallen world even people in a very complex, postmodern world are desperately hungry to hear the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ. We need to step it up. We need to toughen up and take this job seriously. We need to be ready to suffer for the gospel. We need to be motivated by this stewardship that we have been entrusted. We are to run this race well.
Three Steps to Recover an Outwardly Focused Church
Churches have become preoccupied with existing to meet people’s felt needs and satisfy their wants. They are no longer fellowship of those who are sacrificial, those who want to give their lives away.
So which one are you? There’s only two categories. Spurgeon said it well, “Every Christian is either an imposter or a missionary.”