Labels can be useful, but they can often be misleading. So telling you that I am a Charismatic may not be helpful—to you or to...

But it seems that some churches aren't looking for that. They would prefer a musician who can lead the "singing", oversee the tech team,...

[EDITOR'S NOTE: As a follow-up to my last post, here is a slightly adapted excerpt from Chapter 8 of "Secondhand Jesus". If you like, you...

The long-standing view of God is that He is an angry school master, ready to bring the full weight of His wrath upon us at the slightest...

Many people have the mistaken notion that ministry is all about meeting needs. Jesus met needs, so we must meet needs, it is often said....

But here are three things that every artist knows but is reluctant to admit…three reasons why the confusion of creativity with...

But I was clueless. I had no idea the way I would be drawn aside by own ego, fooled by opportunities and so-called fame. I was...

Three conversations made me think of church planters this past week. This first was an unexpected encounter with an old friend who has...

Today's ministry leaders face an enormous amount of pressure from all sides. Many times, there is pressure from our superiors to produce...

It is too easy to leave a church because it is "dead". It sounds much more spiritual than admitting some sort of consumer impulse in us...

Tomorrow begins my first pastoral sabbatical. Every pastor at New Life who has been on staff for seven years or more is being given a one...

EDITOR'S NOTE: Some of you know that I am a regular contributor to http://www.neueministry.com. As strange as the name is, and as unclear...

Ask most charismatic church-goers what the focus of their worship service is and they will invariably say something about the presence of...

Hi friends, This is a video explaining the core message of my new book, "Secondhand Jesus: Trading Rumors of God for a Firsthand Faith."...

No doubt you’ve heard sermons on the unlikely cast of characters who found themselves in the thick of God’s arrival on earth. Lowly ...