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July 2020

July 15, 2020

Post-COVID Slump: Is it Just a Flesh Wound?

Since the lockdowns, churches have had three of their four "limbs" hacked off. All we...

April 2020

April 15, 2020

For God’s Sake — Shorten Your Sermon

Your church service is a TV show now. You need to tighten things up if...

December 2019

December 30, 2019

Flame-throwers in Church? How Much Stagecraft is too Much?

Have we reached peak stagecraft? At what point do our showy, manmade contrivances overwhelm the...

November 2019

November 16, 2019

The One Thing that MUST be on your Church’s Home Page

Many church web sites hide this vital information under a basket - making it hard...

August 2019

August 19, 2019

Pastor: How to Feed Your Flock Every Day

Pastor, what if there was a way to triple the number of people in your...

July 2019

July 23, 2019

How the New Members’ Class Sets Men Up to Fail

There are legions of former churchgoers who have fallen away — not because they’ve lost...

July 15, 2019

Are Evangelicals Just as Messed Up as Non-Believers?

Those who actually practice their faith have much healthier personal lives than those who simply...

April 2019

April 14, 2019

Will Livestreaming Kill the Local Church?

It's much easier to watch church than go to church.

February 2019

February 05, 2019

Millennial Christians Queasy about Conversion

New research from Barna finds that almost half of practicing, born-again Millennial Christians are uncomfortable...

December 2018

December 19, 2018

How to Get People to Watch Your Sermons Online

Pastors, you can’t simply post your 40-minute sermon to the internet and expect people to...

December 17, 2018

Pastor to Melt Jewelry into Golden Vagina

If her goal is to start a sexual revolution in the church, she's going about...

December 10, 2018

Dying Churches – a Solution?

Two churches. One has a building but no people. The other has people but no...

December 05, 2018

Does God Really Afflict the Comfortable?

One of liberal Christianity’s favorite shibboleths is this: God comforts the afflicted and afflicts the...

October 2018

October 29, 2018

I worship in a television studio

The worship spaces we build today are dark, cavernous rooms designed to capture sound and...

May 2016

May 05, 2016

There’s no such thing as church planting

Let me point out something that should be obvious: you can’t plant a church. All...

April 2016

April 27, 2016

Should churches use air conditioning?

If we spent less on our own comfort, could give more away?

March 2016

March 30, 2016

Every man has a masculinity bank

The need to be manly is universal and buried deep – the product of a...

March 07, 2016

Why is church attendance declining – even among committed Christians?

It's not merely nominal Christians who are putting aside weekly worship: fervent believers are becoming...

February 2016

February 29, 2016

Youth group: why not put the boys in charge?

Why did these boys come week after week? Not because of my superior leadership skills....

February 23, 2016

Help me reinvent the men’s retreat (part 3 of 3)

A successful men’s retreat begins well in advance – by organizing men into teams. Build...

February 10, 2016

Help me reinvent the men’s retreat (part 1 of 3)

I’m going to use my next three blog entries to lay out a plan for...

January 2016

January 26, 2016

Motivate men — promise risk and reward

Jesus did not shy away from the promise of reward. He did not worry that...

January 05, 2016

Is modern worship too entertaining?

The church has been in the entertainment business for almost 1700 years.

December 2015

December 30, 2015

Christianity started as men’s ministry

Christianity started as a men’s ministry. Yes, Jesus had women followers. He ministered to children....

December 22, 2015

Removing barriers that keep young men out of church

If we want more men in church 20 years from now we must start today...

December 08, 2015

How we screen young men out of church

Children of every kind come into the church. They are screened through children’s ministry and...

November 2015

November 11, 2015

Ten takeaways from Reload ’15 conference

Reload is the world’s largest gathering of men’s ministry leaders. Here are ten cool things...

October 2015

October 14, 2015

Should men’s gatherings have singing?

In the past few years more and more men’s meetings have ditched the singing —...

October 06, 2015

The Church’s Planned Parenthood moment

Planned Parenthood is under siege over government funding. The church will face a similar barrage...

September 2015

September 30, 2015

Our new moral framework (part 3 of 3)

Every Christian institution maternalizes over time. This includes Christian Universities, charities, mission organizations and of...