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I attended the pre-conference session with Will Mancini. Will is the author of Church Unique and a very helpful voice on leadership and clarity. I have not yet read Church Unique, but it has fueled a number of conversations recently between me and Jason. I found Will's session to be very thought-provoking and challenging. I …
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Throughout this week, I'm at the Exponential Conference in Orlando, Florida. Exponential is a conference focused on church planting and resourcing church planters. I went to this conference two years ago, right when our church, Brooklife, had launched. It was a great experience then, in fact, you can read my posts from two years ago …
Here is an excerpt from a message by Matt Chandler in which he addresses why people become "de-churched" - walk away from God and the church. He looks at an approach to Christianity where we focus on doing good or moral things, what Chandler calls "moralistic deism." The problem is that when bad things happen, …
Christianity Today recently posted the article "Good to Great to Godly" by Mike Bonem from Leadership for online reading. I wrote a blog-post on that article a month ago when it came out. Bonem's article is definitely worth the read, and should start some helpful conversation within the leadership team of your church or organization. …
While I am a little belated in posting this, you can listen to the message I gave at Brooklife Church on March 28th (Palm Sunday) entitled "The Cross...What It Demands of Me." This was the third of four messages in a series at Brooklife called "The Cross." I was speaking from Luke 9:23-26, where Jesus …
