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In some ways, the book we call the Bible is a legal document. According to the Church’s view, God has made two primary contracts with...

Jesus the Son told His disciples, “The poor you will have with you always.” God the Father told Israel, “There will be no poor among...

About three-thousand years ago, Israel was once again in a bad place. They had this pathological spiritual pattern: after having some big...

For those of us with perfectionistic personalities, the fear of making a mistake can be debilitating as a leader. But if we’re not...

Yesterday I had a little hiccup. About seven months ago, my wife and I felt prompted—I think now by the Holy Spirit—to have a CT scan to...

Have you heard the news about _______? Just insert the name of a politician, athlete, leader, celebrity, influencer, whatever…and then...

Not even an extremely gifted communicator can rival experience as a teacher. Truth must be experienced to take root. Academia has begun...

In our last podcast, our panel debated the question: Is the Church a Business? It was a fun and eye-opening discussion…and led to a...

When a church goes through our Pathway or Inventory program for revitalization, it often includes a site visit from one of our team...

On our last Elemental Leaders podcast, our panel tackled the Exhaustion Epidemic with this question: “Help! I’m Overwhelmed and...

Over the last few decades, there’s been a shift in evangelicalism in particular from the hyper-individualistic message of “personal...

Now a man named Ananias, together with his wife Sapphira, also sold a piece of property. With his wife’s full knowledge he kept back part...

The other day I happened to notice a poster about a Big New Blockbuster Movie coming out. The top line on the poster read: “Only in...

You own the cosmos—you made everything in it, everything from atom to archangel. PSALM 89:11 (MESSAGE BIBLE) Famous celebrity...

The other night my wife and I watched “Encanto: Live at the Hollywood Bowl.” Don’t ask why. And please don’t judge: I’m not really a big...

A baby born in a feeding trough for farm animals in a backwoods town is not the way royalty is typically introduced. But as He later...

A few years ago a friend of mine stepped into the senior pastor role at a large church after the previous successful pastor left under...

I’ve been on both sides of a lead pastor transition. Years before serving in the lead pastor role at our church, everyone on...

So here’s an idea as we move into the Thanksgiving holiday… Paul’s short letter to the Philippian church underscored his belief that...

Of the four essential elements that every leader must exercise—Integrity, Passion, Servanthood, and Imagination—Servanthood seems like it...