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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...

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 29, 2019

New Members’ Class: Tell Men the Truth

We need to tell men the truth about church membership. The good, the bad and...

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...

February 2019

February 28, 2019

Conservative Methodists Gracious in Victory

Conservatives are demonstrating the grace of Jesus to those with whom they disagree.

January 2019

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...

November 2018

November 17, 2018

Jesus Called Out Sinners. Should We?

Is it unChristlike to publicly shame the unrepentant?

November 05, 2018

How Churches Create Isolated Christians

In a lonely world, the church is uniquely positioned to offer genuine face-to-face human contact....

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?

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 10, 2016

Andy Stanley’s real errors

To his credit, Stanley quickly apologized for disparaging small churches. But his comment was based...

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 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 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.

November 2015

November 16, 2015

Is it a sin to use a smartphone in church?

There have always been distractions in church. The smartphone is the most potent distraction yet.

October 2015

October 29, 2015

How to worship out of your mind

Humans have five senses. Why do we use just one when we worship?

October 21, 2015

Should women be church elders?

By focusing on whether women should preach we miss a much more important gender related...

July 2015

July 27, 2015

Comedy: the key to reaching young men?

Prediction: the next Billy Graham will be a comedian.

June 2015

June 12, 2015

Why young Christian men choose radical Islam

There’s been much hand-wringing over ISIS’s success in recruiting young men from the West to...

June 02, 2015

Use the 10-10 format to teach men

Whenever I speak to men's retreats, I use a 10-10 format. I speak for about...

May 2015

May 19, 2015

The church I would plant (part 3)

Men’s League is an extremely simple, lightweight church-planting model that focuses like a laser on...

May 12, 2015

The church I would plant (part two)

If I were planting a church it would look nothing like the model we know...

May 04, 2015

The church I would plant (part one)

So here’s my crazy idea: what if we could plant a church where discipleship is...