Church Cover-Ups and The Insidious Danger of Hypocrisy
Hypocrisy, plainly stated, is activity geared to look better than we are and to hide reality where we fall short.
Jenga Churches: Many Ministries Are Playing a Dangerous Game
The hidden fractures in many churches have become visible fissures. Can churches regain their stability in such an unstable situation?
Does Your Church Need a Covid Reset?
Dormant illnesses in your church body, long overlooked, can become crippling under COVID’s duress.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Sanando El Corazon De SU Iglesia
Sanando El Corazón De Su Iglesia: Cómo Los Líderes Del Ministerio Pueden Facilitar La Curación Corporativa (Cardiología de la Iglesia)
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.
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.
Providence and Pestilence
If God is all powerful, it is hard to deny that He allowed this plague (and has permitted all plagues) on humanity. Despite all the secondary causes the buck stops with God.
Regional Ministry Repents
When Western Canadian Church of God Ministries (Anderson) met for their annual LeaderConnect gathering in February of 2020 it was memorable to say the least.
The Trouble with Revival
If all the Coronavirus teaches spiritual leaders is how to use technology to preach to empty sanctuaries while saints sit at home and watch on their computers, the Church will have wasted a crisis that God is allowing to test the planet.