Response to an Atheist Friend (4)

Recently we had 28 people from an atheist group visit our church, then I went to their atheist meeting. One of the guys has written a first draft of a book about atheism. He was trying to get other members of his group to read it and give him feedback, but they weren’t, so I…

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Local Predicament: A Case Study (5)

I’ve had a short series the last few Thursdays on the importance of understanding your local predicament in constructing your church’s vision, and the strategy you’ll employ to see the vision become reality.  The problem is that we tend to to look to success stories in other places, not realizing that where God has specifically…

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Vault Speaker Featured…

Last week Exponential (the biggest church planting conference in the country) featured an interview with Scott Bloyer on their website and email newsletter. Scott is one of the speakers at this year’s Vault, and a church planter in Aurora, Colorado. Aurora is the town where the tragic movie theater shooting happened, and the article asks…

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Big Vault Announcements!

We had a meeting a couple weeks ago planning out some details of Vault, and we’re psyched for this October 15-17! Vault is our conference for church leaders who want to lead churches that truly reach un-churched non-Christians. Very few churches grow, and even those that do tend to grow by adding people from other…

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Best Decisions

I’ve made two decisions that completely changed the trajectory of my life. The first, and best, decision was to enter into a committed forever relationship with God through Jesus. No cliches, not cause I’m supposed to say it, but seriously that was the best decision of my entire life. The second best was to enter…

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