Is Your Church Growing Young?
I recently had the opportunity to be a part of the launch team for a book called Growing Young by Kara Powell, Jack Mulder, and Brad Griffin based on research from the Fuller Youth Institute that addresses the vitally important issue of young people and our churches. Across the United...
7 Reasons why I am not jumping on the church growth bandwagon
It’s tiring being the weird one. Believe me . . . sometimes I wish that I could just go to church on Sundays, sit in the sanctuary, listen to a message, clap and sing praise songs, catch up with my friends, and go on my merry way. Why can’t...
3 Things that will make you ‘the weird one’ at church
There are certain things in life that one just has to make peace with. Certain things that just are. Like death and taxes, there are some things that never change. I’m the weird one. I always have been, and I always will be. And I have made peace with it....
Church, we have to get this right
“We should be astonished at the goodness of God, stunned that he should bother to call us by name, our mouths wide open at his love, bewildered that at this very moment we are standing on holy ground.” ~Brennan Manning, Ragamuffin Gospel I have some thoughts that have been...