Does Your Church Need a Covid Reset?
Dormant illnesses in your church body, long overlooked, can become crippling under COVID’s duress.
When Congregational Meetings Go Awry
Why discipline Moses over his angry response (striking the rock rather than speaking to it) and what can Christian leaders learn from it about sinful reactivity in congregational meetings?
Church Leadership Blind Spots Lead to Wrecked Congregations
It could be that Jesus has brought a disciplinary “sword” into your congregation because church leaders have a blind spot.
3 Instances When Mediating Church Conflict Does Not Work
Conflict in churches is as common as it is in the families that make up those churches. However, there are cases where a traditional mediation approach to church conflict will fail to gain the desired result of peace.
What the Mainstream Media Gets Right and What it Means for the Church
Don’t hate on the on the mainstream media. God wants us to hear the media’s message and realize the implications for the Church.
Satan’s Role in a Church Crisis: Instigator of Spiritual Warfare or Instrument of Divine Discipline?
We cannot escape the conclusion that God sometimes uses Satan to release a spirit of “ill will” within or against congregations.
Speak No Evil: Should Churches Use Non-Disclosure Agreements?
For all the good of limited scope NDAs, they have often been used as a form of domination and keeping sin in the dark.
6 Things to Consider When Shopping for a Healthy Church
Most corporate ill health operates behind the scenes, hidden from the eyes of visitors on Sunday morning. But there are signs of health you can discern in a couple of visits.
Wasting a Pandemic
Whether COVID 19 is a harbinger of the plagues in Revelation, we do not know. But it shines a light on the Divine purpose of plagues that has gone completely overlooked.
Ravi Zacharias: Another of the Mighty Has Fallen!
As part of a consulting ministry that works to heal churches from devastating internal crises, the moral failure of a Christian leader is, sadly, a familiar scenario.
When Healing Our Land is a False Hope
When God orchestrates painful events, He has an issue with and message for the church (or nation) in question.
The Temptation We All Face in 2021
Our time in or under God’s Word is to be primarily a relational exercise, not a mental one.
Four Signs Your Church is Becoming a Cult
I want to share four things that happen as a group drifts toward characteristics of a cult.
How NOT to Start a Church
In our work with churches, we’ve learned that new churches often resemble the mother churches from which they were birthed. This can be good or bad!
Covid and The Hour of Testing
There has been much more emphasis on getting tested for Covid than there has been on seeing Covid as a test. Yet, Covid is for God’s people “an hour of testing,” as it is for everyone on the planet.
How Misplaced Empathy Can Ruin Your Church
For some reason, churches often have misplaced empathy and tolerance toward some people that ends up exposing them to significant danger.
Are Covid and Killings by Police Signs from God?
Despite our obliviousness, God uses dramatic, attention-getting signs to speak to nations.
What would Jesus say to a nation plagued by racism?
What was once a fruited plain now drowns in waves of pain.
Resolving Church Conflict
The tricky part to resolving church conflict wisely, is that in many cases what appears as a church discipline or interpersonal conflict, can be an expression of an unresolved corporate conflict in the history of the church.