Church Planting


They will tell you: Play to your strengths not your weaknesses.  Don’t work on your weaknesses, if so, you’ll avoid hitting your full potential. The cost of improving your weaknesses is far grater than focusing on your strengths. Keep to your strengths. Focusing on your strengths is good advice as […]

The Limitation of Your Strength


I met Carl F. H. Henry several years ago. He was one of the most influential theologians of the 20th century. I greatly admired him and deeply appreciated his stance for truth. Though his magnum opus is the massive 6-volume God, Revelation, and Authority, his brief book The Uneasy Conscience […]

Carl Henry, Apostolic Task, and Blurring the Lines


Part of shepherding your people to the field means knowing about marketplace needs. Countries often frown upon natives from other countries coming in and taking jobs–unless it has been difficult to find a national for the job. Here are the ten-most difficult positions to fill across the world. Do you […]

Shepherd Your People to the Marketplace



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Last month I shared a glimpse of the cover of one of two books I’m publishing this year. I am extremely excited that Apostolic Church Planting is now available for pre-order. This is my third work on the topic of church planting which builds from the foundational work established in […]

New Church Planting Book


If we recognize we must now serve lunch at 7AM, then we come to the conclusion:  We must change the way we prepare others to serve in our blurred world. Church planting training cannot remain as it is. Pastoral training cannot remain as it is. Seminary education cannot remain as […]

Don’t Wait for the How


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I drove through my hometown yesterday and saw a Taco Bell sign: “Lunch now served at 7AM”. Why did it take this Taco Bell so long to figure out that some lunch breaks are at 7 AM, not to mention the fact that some people like tacos and chalupas for […]

Lunch Now Served at 7AM