A Church Planter and Church Transformation Self-Assessment
When it comes to professional pastoral ministries, the absolute must difficult job of all is effectively leading a church’s transformation. That’s a glamourless, thankless, painful, heart-wrenching, aggravating, and too often career-ending task. In fact, the only ones who intentionally consider engaging in this kind of ministry are either narcissistic, arrogant, savior-complexed martyrs or else the God-called servant […]
Living with and Ministering to a Stroke Victim
I’m sure some of my acquaintances will tell me I shouldn’t have written this article. They may be right but I feel compelled to share it because it might help someone.  Isn’t that what Christians are supposed to do? I want to help anyone who has a relationship with a spouse who has had a stroke […]
Resolutions or Commitments?
Friends, I count not myself yet to have laid hold: but one thing I do, forgetting the things which are behind, and stretching forward to the things which are before, I press on toward the goal unto the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.  Phil. 3:13-15 New Years is a time when […]
If I Were a Minister of Education
New trends and technologies have me itching to try some new things. It has been a while since I worked for a local church, and a lot has changed since then. I can think of at least three developments that would greatly change the way I would go about the work today. Database sophistication. We were […]
Things We’ve Learned
A couple months ago, some of you were invited through Net Results to participate in a research survey. Well, the results are in with nearly 300 responses from across the nation. And congratulations to the Rev. Loril Hawk, the winner of the Apple TV. Participating churches included those with less than 50 to those over 3000. The […]
The Rolling Model of Strategic Mapping
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