In 1970, futurists Alvin and Heidi Toffler wrote a book titled “Future Shock.” They defined future shock as “too much…
Our current culture has manifested a heightened awareness of social justice issues which gives the church an opportunity to demonstrate and model clear and…
Fifty years ago, today, Martin Luther King Jr. was murdered in Memphis at the Lorraine Motel. Like anyone of our heroes, King wasn’t perfect.…
As we contemplate the future horizon of church planting in North America, it is imperative for us to consider one of the main ingredients…
I care how church planters are equipped for multiplication, so I also care deeply about Christian higher education and its historic role in ministerial…
Someday you will read or hear that Billy Graham is dead. Don’t you believe a word of it. I shall be more alive than…
Today in ministry leadership, many have adopted this phrase used in business and organizational psychology: pipeline. The concept is simple. A pipeline is an…
North American church planting has grown up a lot since I first planted in 1988 as a 20-year-old who grew a beard to look…
We’re in one of the best times in history to start globally-minded churches in North America—churches that are rooted in North American cities, but…
In 2007, I had coffee with a church planter in New York City who had recently moved there from Dallas, TX. This was at…