I have a great heart for pastors who seek to lead churches in revitalization efforts. As a young pastor I saw God by His grace renew a struggling church; as a professor I have spoken in countless churches where faithful pastors sought to see dry bones live again. I recently wrote a little book as [...]

  Summer will soon be upon us, which means for many of us a little more time to read. I love reading a variety of books.  Good books abound these days! Here are a few on a variety of topics I would suggest for your summer reading consideration: APPLIED THEOLOGY: Tim Keller’s Center Church has already become [...]

NOTE: This was first posted at The Gospel Project website. “Summer’s lease hath all too short a date.” Shakespeare Summer marks that time when people take vacations and generally pull themselves away from their normal routines. I love summer — reading books in a hammock, reclining by a pool, and taking time to reflect. Summer seems [...]

I love the book of Acts. It offers us a raw, untamed, real-life look at the early church. Yes, we tend to sanitize it by trying to make it and the rest of Scripture suitable for VBS-aged kids.  But the passion, the movement, the urgency and the difficulty seen in the early church push me [...]

The following comes from As You Go. Order your copy here. In my last post I talked about the “science” of missional, those fundamentals students must grasp even as an athlete has to learn the basics of a given sport. But, as the greatest athletes take the fundamentals and create skillfully off of them (my [...]