What’s Next: 3 Major Stages of Discipleship

A Church must continually evaluate where it has come from, what places it has gone off track, and where it currently stands in regards to Jesus central call to “Go and make disciples.”  I take that as Jesus’ mission statement to the Church quite literally.  The Book of Acts shows us the earliest picture of [...]

Tents to Castles

My daughter got a “Dora the Explorer” tent for her birthday a few weeks ago.  It’s not any more than about 3 feet by 3 feet, w/a couple of openings on either side to crawl into.  This past week, she was playing with the tent, and in the course of her play she called the [...]

Links: Revival Prayers

I read Trevin Wax’s blog semi-regularly, and this post on prayers for revival was a timely one for me.  In a rural church, Revival is associated with an annual or bi-annual time to bring in a guest preacher with the hopes of firing the congregation up, and possibly winning the lost to Jesus.  I’ve stately [...]