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  • What Does Your Life Mean?

    What Does Your Life Mean?

    There are few questions presented to us in this life like the ones I am about to ask. Perhaps they are only asked genuinely of us once or twice, though they should be asked more. What do you want to do with your life? What do you want it to mean? Most of you read…

  • It’s Not My Ministry- New Church Leadership Devotional

    It’s Not My Ministry- New Church Leadership Devotional

      When I began preaching regularly at the age of 18 and then received my first ministry position at the age of 19, I was ill-prepared for the daunting task. I was trying to run without legs. No one had, at that time, taken the time to teach me what it meant to serve in…

  • How Long Should a Church Service Be?

    How Long Should a Church Service Be?

    Church services vary in length. The average timeframe seems to be from one to two hours while there are worship services as short as thirty minutes. It doesn’t come as a surprise that Scripture gives no explicit instruction on how long or short a Christ-centered worship service should be. What I will not do is…

  • The Missionary, part 1: ruined in Damascus

    The Missionary, part 1: ruined in Damascus

    Thanks to readers, friends, and family, we received the funding we needed to support our church in Liberia for another month and we are planning to plant a few more churches this year. In celebration, I am starting this new blog series, “The Missionary.” “The Missionary” will follow the steps of the Apostle Paul as…

  • Beauty in the Church

    Beauty in the Church

    I remember walking into one church building, it was a church that had seen my resume and called me for an interview. The building was rundown, dirty, the wall paint was no longer white, the carpet was coming up, and there was a hole in the ceiling of the auditorium. It was not a very…

  • Public Prayer in The Church Service

    Public Prayer in The Church Service

    God’s house is to be a house of prayer (Matthew 21:13). So, in church services we try to follow that instruction by having intermittent prayer around preaching and singing and by having entire gathering times dedicated to only prayer. What place does prayer actually have in the gathering? This will be an important topic for…

  • How Should We Practice The Lord’s Supper?

    How Should We Practice The Lord’s Supper?

    The Lord’s Supper, or the Eucharist, is a regular part of Christian worship. As a reminder of my goal in this leadership series, I am not considering all of the theological implications of the practice. Concerning the Lord’s Supper, I am making these presuppositions: The proper view of the Lord’s Supper is at least memorial…

  • Baptism: form follows function

    Baptism: form follows function

    My purpose here is not to consider the practice of baptism in general or to define exactly what baptism is. My purpose is to consider what place baptism has in the church worship service explicitly and the biblical methodology of practicing baptism. Here are my assumptions: Baptism is not required for salvation but is an…

  • Ministry Update, making disciples… and releasing them

    Ministry Update, making disciples… and releasing them

    I remember sitting with a couple friends, Andrew (a different Andrew) and Cody, dreaming about what kind of ministry we could have while in college. Of course, I was prideful- bent on building a kingdom for myself on Christ’s name. No dream that we voiced there would ever come to pass. God would not provide…

  • Thinking About Hospitality in the Church Service

    Thinking About Hospitality in the Church Service

    I want to be very clear about what my goal is through this particular leadership series. This series is meant to evaluate certain practices in the local church gathering in light of biblical principles. I am not condemning any practice, nor am I elevating one practice over another. I am under the understanding that in…