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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...
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