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January 18, 2022 0 Comments

Some years ago, after reading David Murrow’s book, “Why Men Hate Going to Church”, I realized that most people assume that men are just less religious than women, but this is untrue. Other

July 27, 2021 0 Comments

Every Sunday, thousands of church leaders stand up on their church's platform and begin to speak. Like Jesus who took the scroll of Isaiah, read a passage, and then offered words of explanation,

December 5, 2019 11 Comments

I recently had a student who designed a new small group system for her church and called them War Ship Small Groups. And she was uniformly eaten by a couple of students for

November 12, 2019 2 Comments

When it comes to preaching about "sin" of any sort, I've always been of the opinion we should confront sin in the same manner Jesus did ... he only ever confronted the hypocritical

November 7, 2019 1 Comment

Few churches know how to offer adequate hospitality to a non-Christian visitor. Being nice, loving, warm, and friendly isn't the same thing as being hospitable. For instance, does your church bulletin use any

August 13, 2019 0 Comments

When I went to seminary, we were taught that the best, most authentic, relevant way to preach was to create an expository sermon. For the uninitiated that's a sermon that starts with a