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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 22, 2019

The Future of Worship: Virtual and Private

Christians can have the world's best preaching and worship piped directly into their eyes and...

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...

May 2019

May 11, 2019

Liberal Churches: Why no LGBTQ Youth Leaders?

Four years after the Boy Scouts rolled out the rainbow carpet to gay youth workers,...

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 11, 2019

Living in an age of Morality without Mercy

When Christians see the Twitter mob meting out swift justice for long-ago infractions, we shake...

January 2019

January 29, 2019

Why We Despise Cutting-Edge Churches

Today, a number of cutting-edge churches are leading the culture in terms of technology, artistry...

January 25, 2019

Will Multi-Site Churches Replace Denominations?

Just as our modern denominations replaced the colonial ones (Quaker, Anabaptist, Puritan, etc.) multi-site megachurches...

January 06, 2019

Should Pastors Preach Each Others’ Sermons?

The men who wrote the Bible borrowed heavily from each other. Why can't our pastors...

December 2018

December 10, 2018

Dying Churches – a Solution?

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

December 04, 2018

Why the Religious Right and Left Will Never Agree

Traditionalists appeal to the rules. Progressives appeal to relationships.

November 2018

November 17, 2018

Jesus Called Out Sinners. Should We?

Is it unChristlike to publicly shame the unrepentant?

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?

April 19, 2016

Two questions every pastor should answer

Is God is using you - or are you are using God?

April 12, 2016

How to love your church again (in 15 minutes)

Are you sick of going to church? Bored? Burned out? Angry? Irritated? You're not alone.

March 2016

March 24, 2016

All crazy, all the time

What do Donald Trump and the prosperity gospel preachers have in common?

March 15, 2016

Do you worship your pastor?

I’ve talked to a lot of guys who've quit going to church. Their reasons vary,...

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 17, 2016

Help me reinvent the men’s retreat (part 2 of 3)

The most valuable thing a man can take away from a retreat is a group...

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 13, 2016

Men’s ministry is pointless

...unless you get one thing right first.

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...