Church Planting is Hard…and Fun

“Church planting is hard. We need all the help we can get.” I found that line at the start of the Launch Documents (PDF) of Downtown Cornerstone Church in Seattle, and it’s

I Can Forgive the Preacher Almost Anything

There is so much quotable wisdom in Preaching and Preachers by D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones that it’s hard to know where to begin. This, though, is one of my favorites: I can forgive

Saturday Links

Time to Enlarge the Church Planting Table It is time to enlarge the church planting table to make room for the majority of potential missionaries who are just as biblically qualified and called,

Slow Cooked Sermons

Confession: I used to leave sermon preparation to the end of the week. I procrastinated until the pressure got to me, and I got going by Thursday or Friday, sometimes even Saturday or

Pastors: Need a Break From the Church?

I”ve been thinking a lot about this paragraph from Total Church: A Radical Reshaping around Gospel and Community . It has a lot of implications for how pastors see their roles within the