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Failure

We’ve invited a guest speaker to our church next month. His bio says that he’s a “husband, dad, friend, big sinner enjoying an even bigger grace, unlikely pastor, wanna-be-musician, writer-at-times, a

Six Benefits of Visiting Other Churches

Our church meets on Sunday afternoons. That’s meant that I am free on Sunday mornings, and am able to visit other churches. Over the past four years, I’ve visited dozens of

Saturday Links

Links for your weekend reading: Thoughts on the Rise and Fall of Pastors Pastors are prime candidates for relational isolation, emotional turmoil, and moral collapse. Self-Promoting Wolves or Selfless Shepherds? I started thinking

21 Quotes from Planting Missional Churches

Here are some of my favorite quotes from the new edition of Planting Missional Churches. For more information, see my review. I believe in church planting. More to the point for this book,

Planting Missional Churches

When I moved into a condo, only the best books moved with me. To make the cut, a book had to be indispensable. It says something, then, that I kept Planting Missional Churches