This week, a friend Bryan read an old blog post of mine from this time last year about the state of video announcements. Some highlights…
“Everyone agrees that [video announcements] has gotten stale, but it’s hard to put a finger on why. Lots of reasons have been suggested, but I think that it has simply run [...]

Here is a great article written by Bill Hybals at the (historically) influential Willow Creek Church in Chicago.
http://www.buildingchurchleaders.com/articles/2006/060403.html
Some highlights:
on the value of staff volunteers…
“Volunteers need and deserve to be given competent leadership, sensitive shepherding, ongoing development, training, and tools to do their job. They’re supposed to be nurtured and coached by the staff into their full-redemptive potential. That’s [...]

Thank you from Adam Ratliff

…commanding us to give purified water.
…I will flow in and through you rivers of living water. God blessed vessals in the process. Like a tree, we are naturally built to bear fruit.
…the language of the Kingdom is hunger.

Bobby Gruenewald over at LifeChurch.tv makes a great point in his blog post There Are No Megachurches.
When we consider the magnitude of the opportunity that exists right now to share the Gospel with this world, I don’t know how we can sincerely use the prefix “mega” to refer to any ministry that exists today.
I think [...]

Prophesied on Wednesday night:
(Steve Stone) Make certain that you do not tone down My love. Make certain when others ask you penetrating questions of who I am, that you do not dial it down for I have been writing My testimony in this house for decades. I have been writing it upon [...]

The other day I had some spare time between errands, and I decided to play church tourist. I ended up taking 10 minute walk-ins of two fairly-prominent evangelical churches in the area, and met the staff that were going about their weekday church business. At each house of worship, I introduced myself to the first [...]

 19 Then, as the LORD our God commanded us, we set out from Horeb and went toward the hill country of the Amorites through all that vast and dreadful desert that you have seen, and so we reached Kadesh Barnea. 20 Then I said to you, “You have reached the hill country of the Amorites, which the LORD [...]