Is it ever OK to lie?
Lets say you were on a mission trip to smuggle bibles across a closed country’s border. Upon arriving at the check point the officials ask you if you have any bibles in the car. Do you lie?
When we lie, regardless of the situation. what we are really doing (in God’s eyes) is saying I know [...]

I am willing and able to say that Christ’s church is big enough for some disagreement. I want to let it be known that I will not be making a common practice of doing this kind of post. However, this time I am responding…
Today, Justin Wise (@justinwise) at BeDeviant.com posted an article about Negotiables. I agree that it is very [...]

From: A Man’s Guide to the Spiritual Disciplines
…For example, consider that the Bible is made up of sixty-six different books from over forty different human authors, written over fifteen centuries. Yet it flows with such continuity that it looks like a single piece of cloth. That’s difficult to explain outside of God’s guiding in the process.
…And we have 5,659 partial [...]

What is your church/ministry doing to reach 18-40 year olds? What works? What doesn’t? I’d love to hear about it…

The other day, I was taking pictures of the deer in our yard (We live in the middle of town, but they don’t really seem to mind…) and through my viewfinder, I see a deer squatting down to do her business. I thought to myself : “in many years of hunting, growing up on a farm, and living in rural [...]

Rick from “Cheaper than Therapy” wrote a humorous obituary for the Emergent Church that is telling of history, roots, relations, and very funny.  Worth a read, regardless of your views on EC….

I just read an article from Chuck Warnock that made my head spin a little. He talks about the fact that Mega-churches are succumbing to the theory of economies of scale and that how many of them are now turning their focus to planting small, focused missional communities.
Megachurches are coming to the realization that you can only build so many [...]

According to CNN, Focus on the Family has purchased an ad spot for the Super Bowl. It is to feature Tim Tebow and a Family Values/Pro-Life message that has not yet been disclosed. [full story via CNN]

Out of Ur posted an interview with an Irish street preacher that is very challenging and convicting. The word pictures he paints are what a lost, hurting world needs.
We have been given food for distribution in a famine land and, as the Lord leads, every distribution method should be considered. There is a war on for the souls of men [...]

Jeremy at the CoveredDish wrote an excellent post about the two perspectives of young people in the church (talking under 30’s). In churches with many years of history and tradition, this is a difficult teeter-totter to balance. He mentioned that the young people have needs such as mentoring, pursuing a relationship with God, and others. As a church what is [...]

A friend of mine has had some uneasy nights of rest wrestling what to do about the earthquake victims in Haiti. God has led him to start a blog and put things in motion toward taking a team there. I have done a promo video for him called “Pray, Give, Go”. I pray that God will use you to whatever [...]

Perry Noble of NewSpring Church compiled a list that Leaders need to look at: 15 signs that a church is in trouble. It’s ugly to look at the warts and we don’t like to do it, but as followers of Christ, we must do it. We have to peel away the masks, makeup, and mockeries we make of the church [...]