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Designing, developing, and improving church systems is the unsexy work very few church leaders get excited about. But the reality is:...

This summer at a nearby amusement park, I rode thirteen rollercoasters in one evening. The granddaddy of them all was Orion—a gigacoaster...

Don’t get me wrong: apologetics are important. From the launch of the Church in Acts 2, Christians have proclaimed the uniqueness of...

Play along with me for a minute and let’s use our imagination. If a twenty-something artist named Michelangelo could create something as...

Many years ago when I was in my twenties, I had a “come-to-Jesus” moment. Previously I had no interest in God and would have considered...

In the early days of our church, founding pastor Steve Sjogren coined a simple phrase for people to use in basic “servant evangelism”...

The church has always struggled with the tension between evangelism and holiness. I have friends who say when it comes to evangelism,...

So how often do you get to tell the story of someone you know coming back from the dead? And not just sucking air again. Even Lazarus did...

The closing of a year typically engenders a reflective look back and some prognostication for the next one. I would prefer to not look...

And Which Can Atrophy the Fastest...? Every church has a handful of core mission-critical behaviors…and they typically center around...

Okay, before we reveal this mind-blowing answer, let me offer a disclaimer: this has nothing to do with the size of your church,...