The instant we step out of our homes and put our feet down onto the sidewalk, we are swept up into a powerful and deep story. It is like stepping into the current of a mighty…
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Stories have a certain power.
Protagonists, villains, redemption arcs, rising and falling action—all these elements and more come together and form frameworks for how we see the world...
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In our present socio-political climate, justice has become a loaded word that evokes debate, confusion, and hostility along theological, political, and ideological lines.
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It’s no secret many people feel overworked. You may be one of them. With employees averaging 45 hours per week in their jobs, my country of Malaysia is home to some of the most overworked people in Asia. Kuala Lumpur was recently ranked as the third most overworked city in the world.
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The church, whether it be large or small, oblong or compact, is a vessel for the raw transformative substance of God’s Word. Scripture is our source code. Our base content. God…
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Many aspiring (or existing) church planters tend to be anxious about how they’ll support themselves or raise enough money to get their church off the ground. As they prepare…
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Prayer is a major part of the ministry of the Word. The Apostles established the diaconate so they could devote themselves to prayer and the ministry of the Word…
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The corporate prayer life of a church must be grounded in the healthy, regular, personal prayer of its pastor and its people. In Matthew 6:5-13, Jesus instructs…
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At age 14, One Mokgatle lost his father—the rock of his family—to heart failure. Young One wasn’t a Christian, and his father’s death drew him even further away…
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For the last several years, I’ve led a lot of groups of different sorts—students, pastors, and congregations, both in the U.S. and abroad—through the same…
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My new book, Renovated: How God Makes Us Christlike, explores how God is working in our lives every day. Even though it can be difficult to see the presence of God in the complexities of life…
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I spend a fair bit of time with young adults in the Inner West of Sydney. Our church in Newtown exists on the urban edge of the city. Newtown is widely known…
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I wanted to write this book because I can’t help but notice the absence of the church in most church-planting resources. I’ve…
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There is a lot of discussion—sometimes even heated debate—concerning the core definition of the gospel of Christ. In most cases…
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When my wife and I planted our first church in Fukuoka in 1995, I was 40 years old and we had three children (a third grader, a kindergartener, and a one-year-old child). When we planted our second…
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Jesus said, “Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be filled” (Matthew 5:6) and “Blessed are those who…
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One of the most common reasons for pastoral leadership mistakes is blindness to the significance of church size. Size has an enormous impact on how a church…
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I still remember the day I thought I had become a heretic. I was in my second year of seminary learning…
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