Here’s the challenge: Who in your daily life are you seeing as scenery or machinery? How can you intentionally move them into the “human” category?

The church, no matter how well-intentioned and kind-hearted, is sometimes rejected by the local community. This is a painful reality that can be hard to accept. It’s one thing to face indifference, but when opposition is organized, vocal, and hostile, it can leave church planters and mission teams wondering, “How long should we stay and endure this?”

Are you feeling stuck without energy or inspiration to change? The Life Balance Dashboard can help individuals assess key areas of their lives and take proactive steps toward growth.

This tool is particularly helpful when people feel stuck in their present life stage/position. This exercise helps to unlock and reveal new possibilities that you were not even aware existed.

Let’s review the Four Categories of the Life Balance Dashboard to generate energy and change in your life.

Too often, church leadership finds itself caught in a tug-of-war between tradition and innovation, with some fearing that change will dilute the Gospel, while others worry that clinging to the past will make the church irrelevant. However, the healthiest and most impactful churches embrace both tradition and innovation, recognizing that these two forces are not at odds but, rather, complementary. Author Greg Jones calls this balance between tradition and innovation “Traditioned innovation.”

Find your area of strength and step up. Find your area of weakness and step back. That will help the herd to flourish.

Timing is crucial. There are times where people are especially open to the good news. When this window of sunshine rises, make hay!

Have you ever looked at the world and wondered, "What if things could be different?" That’s the power of missional imagination—the ability to see the same things as everyone else but envision new possibilities in light of God’s mission to reveal the kingdom of heaven on earth.

“If necessity is the mother of invention, then play is the father.” This quote captures the essence of why play is crucial for church leaders and organizations. Play has a unique ability to stimulate creativity and inspire new ways of thinking.

This presentation explores the six financial models for church planting.

This presentation explores important topics in intercultural evangelism.

This presentation explores Christian Community Development.

Cows really are what they eat. Aren’t people like that too? Healthy foods often produce healthy bodies. How about what we feed our minds and our spirit?

A bigger church is not necessarily better. Perhaps a better question to ask is, “Am I handling the right size of people that is the right size of my leadership?”

Discipleship in oral cultures employs various genres already embedded in the culture to promote worldview transformation. When this is applied in a Native American culture with my friend over a ten year period, the journey can be surprising and delightful!

In the journey of faith and service, the concept of "missional imagination" plays a pivotal role in realizing God's transformative work in our lives and communities. It encourages us to explore new horizons, listen closely to God's voice, and embark on innovative paths for the Kingdom of God. In this blog post, we will delve into several questions that can help you harness your missional imagination for Kingdom innovation.

How do we evangelize to new generations such as Millennials, Gen Z and the Alpha Generations? Let’s explore different worldviews and how we can apply this to spread the gospel to new generations.

Another approach for churches that are both cash challenged along with closed/shrinking networks is to consider co-vocational pastoring. Previously, the term bi-vocational was used to describe a pastor who worked a secular job outside the church. The implication was that this was not the pastor’s vocational preference, and this was simply temporary until the church could afford a full salary. Once the church could afford a full salary, however, then the pastor would leave their secular job and work full-time for the church. The term ‘co-vocational’ challenges these assumptions.