Looking to next year: Make it count

Leadership

With Christmas less than a week away, I’d be willing to bet I’m not alone in thinking about what 2025 is going to look like. The last few years have been anything but easy for many of us, and there’s a quiet hope 2025 sees the health of our families, our communities,...

Security Matters!

Leadership

I received the notification in this image from Capital One recently. They clearly understand that great organizations (and leaders) make people feel safe. It’s safe to say, Capital One just earned some more loyalty points in my book. Strangely enough, this led me to...

Summer 2008

Leadership

By Dave Cotner War is difficult to describe. The first thing one realizes upon arrival in a combat zone is that war is nothing like the movies or television shows in America. There is no background music, and the story is not over in 120 minutes. War is marked by days...

Pray for PASSION (pt. 7)

Discipleship, Evangelism & Missions, Leadership

In the last article of our Pray for Passion series, we discussed the importance of an invitation. Anyone who’s ever decided to follow Jesus was invited to do so. It’s worth mentioning however that when Jesus invited people to follow Him in the Scriptures, the...

The Great Commission: Depth, Diversity, and the Divine Promise (pt 2)

Leadership

By Bud Houston This is the second part of a two part series looking at the diversity, depth, and divine promise of the Great Commission. In part one, several Great Commission passages were listed in chronological order. It was observed that it was given in an...

The Game of “Reaction” VS The Game of “Proactive”: How One Local Church Opted For A New Game Plan Amidst Growing Political & Cultural Unrest

Leadership

By David Cotner As a local church pastor, the whole of 2020 had me playing the game of “Reaction”. Are you familiar with this frustrating game? The rules of this game go something like this: 1) Disaster or crisis strikes, and 2) As a Christian leader, you are to react...