We are in, no doubt, perilous times.  What we’re going through is a major transition of the way we do business in America.
This means that more people than usual are under financial pressures. Those financial pressures also show up in relationship strains where marriages and families enter into conflicts that oftentimes cause them to drift [...]

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Leadership is important; maybe I should say, critical.  Or you could even use the word, vital. Anyone who wants to be effective in any endeavor has to understand the principles of leadership and get really, really, really good at them.  That’s a given.  We all understand that.  And with that said, let me say this.
The [...]

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With the coming of 2010 I’ve made a commitment to take a decidedly different turn in the focus of my future efforts.  It’s a focus toward something and away from something else.  Let me explain.
For 37 years, I’ve focused on the church as a movement.  Leadership in particular has been one of my favorite subjects; [...]

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Happy Veteran’s Day to everyone out there.   I know we all thank God for those who’ve made the ultimate sacrifice for our freedom.
I can’t help but have Ft. Hood and the memorial service on my mind today.  I watched the moving ceremony as thousands of members of the Ft. Hood family gathered to [...]

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I talk to more and more pastors these days asking the question, “How do I get my church to grow?”  They have conferences about how to grow your church and increase your attendance, how to be more effective and reach different people groups.  The truth of the matter is, you cannot make your church grow.
That’s [...]

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Is it me, or are people hurting more than ever before?  I’m not just talking about the economy and the changes going on in society.  These are simply symptoms of a greater problem.  People are hurting and in deep pain. And it seems as though we’re content to ignore it.
Almost never a day goes by [...]

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Everyone, it seems to me, wants to be successful in his or her chosen field.  For me, what I do is a calling; not a job, not a profession, and not a career, although I hope I bring all the seriousness and commitment all of those categories denote.
The highest aspiration among American churches is to [...]

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Recently a nationally known preacher announced that God had personally and directly (and I think audibly) told him there’s going to be an earth-shattering calamity in the very near future.
This preacher’s first point of advice was to go and get thirty days’ worth of groceries.  I don’t know if that strikes you as odd, but [...]

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In a recent article in the Review Appeal, the headline read, “Sunday School Use Curtailed.” This referred to the fact that a church in our area called GracePointe, a good church, a very good church by the way, had been denied the use of classrooms in a school they had been renting for several years. [...]

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I don’t know about you but I am really sick and tired of books and articles talking about how lazy, insecure, and undisciplined the American Christian is.
Too many people are moaning about the lack of commitment and discipline as we respond to polls taken by various organizations. I don’t put a lot of stock in [...]

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