Equipping – Shepherding Well

What’s In Your Cistern? Finale

What we allow to fill our lives is what we dispense to others. What’s in your cistern? Purified drinking water can be expensive. Instead of buying bottles or filters, you could purchase a rain barrel and capture the water that flows off your roof and through your guttering. Then you would would have a largeContinue reading “What’s In Your Cistern? Finale”

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Got Faith? Prove It! (Four Levels of Followship)

Disciples of Jesus cannot be “undercover” agents. I have met people before who claimed to know Christ but also explained that their religion was a private matter. Strangely, Jesus never instructed His followers to live a private faith. In Acts, the first disciples of Jesus lived their faith in Him so publicly that all enduredContinue reading “Got Faith? Prove It! (Four Levels of Followship)”

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Beyond Pizza and Swim Parties: Disciple-Making with Children/Teens (a book review)

What will the local church look like in 20 years? Take a peek into the youth room of your church and then visit the young adult class. The glimpse may be frightening. In many settings, children and youth ministries are failing to make disciples of Jesus Christ who stand in faith beyond their teenage years. Some churchContinue reading “Beyond Pizza and Swim Parties: Disciple-Making with Children/Teens (a book review)”

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How Good Leaders Get Things Done (5 Christ-honoring Distinctives)

A vision without strategic goals is like an F/A-18 Hornet strike fighter jet with no engine. It looks impressive but will never leave the ground. Every vision has logical goals to move a group one step closer to fulfilling the vision. A leader is one who humbly guides followers to develop, implement, and evaluate goals.Continue reading “How Good Leaders Get Things Done (5 Christ-honoring Distinctives)”

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Something Greater than 33 Billion Cubic Inches

A shoe box donated to Operation Christmas Child (OCC) has the space that averages 330 cubic inches. Over the last 20 years, Samaritan’s Purse (OCC’s parent organization) has collected over 100 million of these boxes filled with love, toys, bars of soap, socks, and the Gospel of Jesus Christ. (This number is comparable to theContinue reading “Something Greater than 33 Billion Cubic Inches”

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Is Your Church Winning? – a book review

What does the sport of wrestling have to do with church? Pastor Jim Putman would give the answer of “everything” in his book, Church is a Team Sport, because people understand sports better than they do church. Putman was a three time All-American collegiate wrestler who came to Christ after college. For ten years, heContinue reading “Is Your Church Winning? – a book review”

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Spirit-Led Disciple-Making

Can I claim to be a follower of Christ if I choose to live for myself? I have no right to say that I am a disciple of Christ unless I possess the “mind of Christ.” (see 1 Corinthians 2:15-16 ) But the call of our Lord is no less than to die to selfContinue reading “Spirit-Led Disciple-Making”

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The Life and Times of the Lone “Reacher” (Spirit-led Outreach Series)

There she goes. The Lone “Reacher.” Riding off into the sunset after a long, but eventful day of sharing the Gospel. She is a seasoned evangelist who can take down almost any argument against God. There are few who are like her. Maybe that is a good thing. While some people enjoy the solitude ofContinue reading “The Life and Times of the Lone “Reacher” (Spirit-led Outreach Series)”

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Book Review: “Me to We” by Alan Nelson

Alan Nelson has discovered one of the greatest hurdles to spiritual growth in the Church today. In his book, Me to We, his goal is simple—expose the hurdle and tear it down. The demolition process is painfully honest, while at the same time refreshingly helpful. Bookstores are linedContinue reading “Book Review: “Me to We” by Alan Nelson”