A Hail Mary Strategy for Turnaround
The average church in the U.S. has fewer than a hundred in worship. Churches with fewer than 50 people in worship make up 40% of all churches in the U.S. The average age in these churches with fewer than 50 people in worship is over 65. Add to that the fact that less than 2% of these churches […]
Lost
A friend of mine, Rick Melheim, sent me the following and suggested I put it on my blog. It’s worth taking the time to read. I watched six hours of the “LOST” show, the final episode, and Jimmy Kimmel’s post-show interviews last night and woke to write a piece called “Lost… Without Jesus” at www.richmelheim.com just […]
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We live in a world about which one of the only things we can say for sure at the moment is that it is set on speed. Things get faster and faster every year. That’s one of the reasons I don’t understand people who will allow emails to sit for days on end instead of answering […]
A Second Resurrection Hits Amazon.ca Bestseller List
I just returned from speaking to the Presbyterian Church of Canada. While I was there I learned from one of the bookseller that my book, A Second Resurrection, made the bestseller list on www.Amazon.ca. This is good and bad news. Good that this book is selling well, but bad that so many churches are in such trouble that […]
A Rush of Great Books
Sometimes I go several months before running into what I consider to be “great books.” Then out of the blue, several such books will fill my “to read” pile. I thought I would share a few of the books I read this month that I consider to be great books. Untamed, by Alan and Deb […]
More on Untamed
I wish Untamed had been Alan Hirsch’s first book. It would have eliminated some of people’s misunderstanding of his message – namely, the question of whether he believes at all in the institutional church. After reading this book, there is no doubt – he does believe in the institutional church, just not the way most institutional churches live out […]