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Tired of the Normal Church Diet

For those that took the Awakening 21 Day Challenge you are now 6 days into the fast. I am so proud of you for hanging in their the first 7 days are always the hardest.  I have had so many people ask me why our church is doing a 21 day fast so  I thought [...]

Awakening 21: Double Dog Dare You

In my last post I threw out a double dog dare for people to join me in reading scripture this year. To be honest I wasn’t expecting what happened next. God threw me a double dog dare and spoke to my heart about joining the Awakening 21 Day Fast. If you know me well then [...]

Shark Tank and the Church Planter

One of the shows that I love to watch when I get a chance is Shark Tank. The series stars five “Sharks” — multi-millionaire business tycoons — who hear investment proposals from  entrepreneurs and consider whether to invest in the businesses. The presentation must request a specific sum of money from the Sharks and offer [...]

Feature Creep

I just read about a concept in programming called “feature creep” — when a software developer continually adds one feature after another because “wouldn’t it be nice” and “why not” and “isn’t it cool” and “some users asked for it”.
The end result is often a bloated program that tries to do everything but ends up [...]

The Fragrance

Just came across a stat that has me dreaming about what needs to change in the local church to help people become the aroma of Christ. The stat is that 84% of outsiders know a Christian, only 15% of them see a marked change in their lifestyle from the rest of the secular world.
I [...]

Daraja Choir

This past weekend our church hosted a missions weekend that we called Global Imapct.  We had over 5,000 people come through our services this weekend. People were  exposed to different mission opportunties that they could partner with this coming year. The theme of the weekend was God of the World, God of the City, and [...]

The Five Percent Principle

Awhile ago I read the book The Divine Mentor and it has really challenged me on my personal worship times. In fact our family has now begun to journal together. I was reminded of a great truth from this book. It is the principle of the Last Five Percent. Let me explain: about 80 percent [...]

Compassion

This week God has been speaking to my heart on how His Spirit advances the Kingdom through us. That we are literally the hands and feet of Christ according to Galatians 2:20. Because Christ came to rescue the helpless I am now charged to do the same because the very heart of Christ resides inside [...]

Woe to the Popular

I have a confession…as a speaker I have always struggled with the applause of people. That sounds pretty bad but its the truth. If I’m not careful I can find myself fishing for a compliment and then other times not knowing how to accept a compliment knowing that God was the one due the credit. [...]

Rock-Star or Shepherd?

One of the concerning movements that I have noticed taking place among the new church starts in America is a Rock star focus that the preacher is requesting or obtaining from his congregation and staff. While I applaud the laser like focus that many of these younger Pastors have and the amount of new converts [...]