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I must mention my wife or my kids in at least half of my sermons as illustrations. Sometimes it is funny, sometimes it is a serious illustration to make a point. But what do our families really think when it comes to us pastors using them as sermon illustrations. My friend Steve recently sent me [...]

Gas around my area is quickly approaching $4.00 per gallon and I can’t help but wonder how it could change church attendance as prices continue to rise. I remember when we first moved to PA in the late 90′s we would drive for an hour to get to a church. We did it because an [...]

Roz Savage is an inspiring woman that is rowing across the pacific ocean. She departed from California at midnight last night and is going to be blogging from a PC in her high tech row boat. Here is a bit from her first entry after departure: Last night, at a few minutes to midnight, I [...]

It is days like today (Memorial Day) that cause me to reflect on my military experience in the Air Force. While I discovered that security and law enforcement wasn’t a real passion for me, I did like the Air Force. The memories I have from that experience are good ones. Plus the military helped me [...]

Pirates aren’t just looking for prey on the oceans anymore. They exist in the church too. Churches that are near and dear to my heart have experienced this. I have spoken with church staff, board members, and leadership from churches that have added pastors to their staff that ended up to be church pirates. They [...]

In my previous posts on this topic we covered Small Groups 2.0 for social groups and traditional (study) small groups. In this post I want to cover task groups. Some churches that are working on being churches of groups instead of a church with groups classify their ministry teams as small groups as well. These [...]

I have always been fascinated with space, it goes with my hobby of watching and reading sci-fi. But the real stuff I find just as cool. One of my favorite places in Washington DC is the Air and Space Museum. Just a few years ago we ended up visiting five times in one year! It [...]

One of my favorite stories to share is from one of the very first groups that my wife and I started. It was a group that we started for single young adults and it filled up pretty quickly as this was a growing demographic in our church. I remember specifically it was a Tuesday night [...]

A team of about 30 volunteers spent the last 7 days in Mexico building two homes for families in need. My first foreign missions experience was working with a family in Amman Jordan. They lived pretty well but it changes you forever when you see how the poorest of the poor live. Kevin Stone (our [...]

I wonder how long print media will last? There is something I really enjoy about reading a physical book or magazine with fresh cup of coffee, so I dont think print media is going anywhere for a really long time. However, Google Trends recently reported that blogs have surpassed magazines and newspapers in popularity (at [...]