Jan 242 minHow Are Your Systems?Designing, developing, and improving church systems is the unsexy work very few church leaders get excited about. But the reality is:...
Oct 18, 20223 minHelping People To Become InvitersThis summer at a nearby amusement park, I rode thirteen rollercoasters in one evening. The granddaddy of them all was Orion—a gigacoaster...
Sep 27, 20223 minAre Apologetics Dead?Don’t get me wrong: apologetics are important. From the launch of the Church in Acts 2, Christians have proclaimed the uniqueness of...
Jun 14, 20222 minHow Big Is The Church?Play along with me for a minute and let’s use our imagination. If a twenty-something artist named Michelangelo could create something as...
Apr 12, 20223 minInviting People to Follow JesusMany 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...
Dec 7, 20212 min“Values, meet Strategy.”In the early days of our church, founding pastor Steve Sjogren coined a simple phrase for people to use in basic “servant evangelism”...
Aug 17, 20212 minTidy Church LitterThe church has always struggled with the tension between evangelism and holiness. I have friends who say when it comes to evangelism,...