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January 2014

January 29, 2014

Three Little Ways to Welcome Men at Church

With men, the little things matter more than you think.

January 22, 2014

Is Emotion Essential to Worship?

If we judge worshippers by the amount of emotion they manifest, we’ve set up a...

January 08, 2014

Christian Exceptionalism and Men

No doctrine makes us more noxious to non-believers than the belief that Christians are the...

December 2013

December 25, 2013

I’m coming to Australia – book me!

I’ll be traveling to Australia March 10-26, 2014 and I’m looking for opportunities to speak...

December 18, 2013

Maybe the Church Needs Fewer Seats…

Airlines got rid of empty seats - and got healthy. One wonders if God isn’t...

November 2013

November 27, 2013

12 Keys to a Guy-Grabbing Christmas Eve Service

When it comes to reaching men, Christmas Eve services are the Super Bowl of the...

November 20, 2013

Four Dilemmas Every Evangelical Faces

Let’s admit it: we’re embarrassed to believe in hell. Speaking of eternal judgment makes us...

November 13, 2013

Why Churches Make so few Disciples

So why doesn’t Pastor Wally re-arrange his schedule so he can spend more time discipling...

October 2013

October 30, 2013

Why the media ignores the war on Christians

How can we blame the media for failing to tell this story when we refuse...

October 23, 2013

Gospel or gimmick?

There’s something in our hearts that causes us to suspect anything in church that delights...

October 16, 2013

Venus and Mars go to church

There's a widespread perception that Christ’s values closely resemble women’s values. Men’s values seem foreign...

October 09, 2013

What college men really need from the church

Maybe young guys are leaving Christianity because they are longing for a kind of discipleship...

October 02, 2013

Dad’s noble reason for skipping church

Fathers often choose youth sports over church for a reason most Christians would applaud –...

September 2013

September 25, 2013

What Christian women really, really want

These stunning survey results give us a clue as to why Christianity is so rapidly...

September 18, 2013

How to wreck a pastor

Because of these frequent beat downs, some pastors develop a foxhole mentality. They avoid their...

September 11, 2013

Church nixes girly tunes and men return

Getting more men to attend your church may be as simple as changing your music.

September 04, 2013

Using cinema to open men’s hearts

Film is the new campfire. It’s the shared culture of young men. And it’s still...

August 2013

August 28, 2013

Are Christians obsessed with sex?

Christians can’t ignore sex because nobody can ignore sex. It’s everywhere.

August 14, 2013

What church will be like in 50 years (part 2 of 2)

These changes may sound horrifying to you, but in 50 years they will be the...

August 07, 2013

What church will be like in 50 years (part 1 of 2)

In the same way WalMart took over the mom-and-pop store, a handful of megachurches will...

July 2013

July 31, 2013

Church growth: it’s all about the pastor

Can I be brutally honest? When it comes to church attendance, nothing matters as much...

July 24, 2013

Is father love welcome in the church?

Father love is like a vaccination: it causes momentary pain, but promotes long-term health. We...

July 10, 2013

Why we call it “a personal relationship with Jesus”

Despite its extrabiblical roots, "personal relationship with Jesus Christ" has become the number one term...

July 03, 2013

Can a man love God but hate churchgoing?

More than half of the committed Christian men I talk to, when asked, will tell...

June 2013

June 26, 2013

Why hell went out of fashion

The Christian story of eternal judgment is being replaced with a series of secular ones....

June 19, 2013

What if Jesus applied for a job at your church?

"I’m sorry Mr. Nazareth, but I’m having a hard time seeing where that kind of...

June 12, 2013

Gangs fathering the fatherless

"A gang gives you something that nothing in the world or no amount of money...

May 2013

May 29, 2013

Does a lack of men lead to liberalism? (part 2)

Men tend to put rules first; women tend to put relationships first.

May 22, 2013

Does a lack of men lead to liberalism? (part 1)

In the past five years several mainline denominations moved to the left, particularly on issues...

May 08, 2013

Why men have stopped singing in church

It happened again yesterday. I was attending one of those hip, contemporary churches — and...