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This is Part 5 of a series I wrote with Ed Stetzer on Church Discipline. After looking at the previous four parts of church discipline…
Continue reading → The Individual’s Responsibility in Church Discipline
This is Part 3 of a series I wrote with Ed Stetzer on Church Discipline. In Part 1, the practice of church discipline was grounded in…
Continue reading → The Pattern and Practice of Church Discipline
This is Part 2 of the Church Discipline series that I wrote with Ed Stetzer. As we noted in Part 1, God compares himself to a…
This is part 1 of a series I wrote with Ed Stetzer on Church Discipline. Church discipline. Those two words can bring a multitude of…
Continue reading → The Way of the Shepherd: The Biblical Foundation of Church and Church Discipline
A version of this article originally appeared on Outreachmagazine.com. I come from a small business family. Growing up my dad owned an industrial painting company…
Continue reading → The Power of Small: Leveraging the Advantages of a Small Church
This article originally appeared in OutreachMagazine.com. Paul exhorts believers, as they offer their bodies as living sacrifices, to not be conformed to the ways of…
Continue reading → Renewed Thinking in Post-Everything Society
This article originally appeared on The Exchange with Ed Stetzer. Change: Simple church may no longer be effective in this changing environment. Shift: Churches need to…
Continue reading → Shifting the Church: Simple Church May No Longer Be Effective in this New Reality
This article originally appeared on OutreachMagazine.com. Crises are inevitable, given the theological reality we live in a fallen world. They’re coming, if they haven’t already…
In every local church I’ve served, I’ve always wanted to lead them boldly into the future. When I think of leading boldly, Braveheart with Mel…
This article originally appeared on OutreachMagazine.com. By now you’ve probably seen the articles that address the state of many pastors in America. Navigating through the…
Continue reading → Having a Full Cup in an Empty World: A Key Element for Pastoral Ministry
