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12 Years A Youth Pastor (5 Critical Transitions For Churches and Youth Workers)
I started in the youth department. Well, I was the youth department. I loved it and entered into youth ministry believing it would be a career. I wanted, if not all of my ministry career, most of it,...
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Can We All Stop Trying To Be Leaders Now?
There are worse things in the world than not being a leader. This simple fact is nearly completely lost on the contemporary American-Evangelical-Leadership-Complex. I’m beginning to worry that...
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Anabaptists, Internet Skirmishes, and How to Make Your Facebook Newsfeed Less...
When theological push comes to shove and I’m pressed into a theological category, I call myself an Anabaptist. Being an Anabaptist means I place a premium on personal piety, the importance of the...
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Apple Needs New Writers (and so might you)
Apple is so phenomenal at making machines that all their executives sound like one. I’m an undeniable Apple fanboy – MacBook Air, MacBook Pro, iPhone, iPod, iPad – I’ve got them all. It would take a...
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You’re Worth Your Investment
You’re going to fail if you don’t bet on yourself. This past week I heard the story of Reginald “Reggie” Hudlin. Hudlin is a screen-writer, director, producer, and former CEO of BET. He is also a...
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It’s You, Not Me: Why More & More Ministers Are Leaving Churches of Christ
Late last year, I wrote the post below. It was my most read ever. I still receive hate e-mail and blog posts responses about it. I’ve reached out to every negative blog responder I’m aware of. None...
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Making Room For You In Your Life
“Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest...
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Is Your Church Donald Sterling’s Instagram Dream?
Does your church directory look like Donald Sterling’s Dream Instagram? Go ahead. Take a minute. Flip through it. If I were a betting man, I’d bet that 90% of churches are congregations made up of 95%...
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Exit Stories: Do You Need to Rethink Church?
Today’s guest post is from Vann Conwell. Vann is veteran minister with over 30-years of ministry experience, including having been my youth minister — blame him ;-). Below, Vann lays out (kindly) what...
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14 Things I’ve Learned in 41 Years
It’s my birthday; my 41st birthday. When I was in 6th grade, our preacher turned 40. His wife and some others threw an “Over The Hill” party for him. Well, I’m told that 40 is the new, um 20, which is...
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Toward A Consistent View of Human Life
What few people in our society are talking about is a consistent ethic of human life. At no time in my life has our simple picking and choosing about life, death, innocence, and innocents been more...
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Our UnGreat Expectations
One of the best terrible Christmas movies is Christmas With the Kranks, based on the John Grisham book, Skipping Christmas. In the film, Luther Krank and his wife Nora are about to celebrate their...
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When Is A Sermon Finished?
A friend once told me “there’s noting worse than amateur poetry.” I get that. Enough poetry is remote and distant, and since most of us stop reading, studying, and enjoying poetry around third grade,...
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Your Purity Test Won’t Work…Like Ever!!!
Purity Test don’t work! If you hadn’t noticed, the American political scene is in shambles. Neither party is looking all that great and regardless of your personal political leanings, you’re likely not...
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ANNOUNCING:: Not So Black and White Podcast
In conjunction with Missio Alliance and church leadership consultant, author, and speaker John Alan Turner, I’ excited to announced our new podcast “Not So Black and White.” Very few things in today’s...
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The Messiah We Would Have Elected
Today’s Guest Post is brought to you from my good friend, Jordan Hubbard. Jordan Hubbard is the Minister of the Word at the Crestview Church of Christ in Waco, TX. He is married to Debbie, the wisest,...
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How to Impress God Without Really Trying Part 2: Crowds Don’t Always Tell The...
Today’s guest post is from my friend, Michael Mercer. Michael is the Senior Minister at the University Church of Christ in Conway, AR. He is married to the beautiful Leah Bivins Mercer and the couple...
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Believing Our Songs at Christmas
The best spiritual practice you could perform is to spend the next year simply trying to live the implications of your favorite hymn. My friend, Edward Fudge, once said, “We all sing All To Jesus I...
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The Best of 2016 Or (How To Best Spend Your Time In 2017)
As we draw the curtain on 2016, here are my favs from the past year. These products were not necessarily released this calendar year, but I encountered them this year. My very tongue-in-cheek bio on...
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“It’ll Be YUUUUUGE:” Getting Over Your Popularity Addiction
Tab Hunter was right when he said, “I don’t care whether people like me or dislike me. I’m not on earth to win a popularity contest. I’m here to be the best human being I possibly can be.” Popularity,...
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