We just returned from four days of an amazing pastoral/board retreat. The nature of our leadership retreats changed dramatically back in 2001. Through a very hard situation we were facing as a church and leadership, we abandoned our typical Spring…
I was a young man back in the '60's. My father pastored a church in South Africa that, at the time, was associated with the holiness movement. The holiness movement began in the late 1800's, influenced by the renewal of…
I have an old beater truck that I use for hauling yard waste and junk to the dump...and furniture for family and friends. It has a rearview mirror attached to the windshield that keeps falling off. I have tried all…
There are some people who recoil from the idea of a needed revival because they don’t like admitting that the church is in trouble. I happen to think they are in denial. But they say... ...pointing out the problems in…
 I have nothing against consultants. How’s that for an opening statement? The issue I have is with church leadership that finds itself in crisis and, as their first response, calls in a consultant because they don’t know what to…
Why do so many of us battle with prayerlessness? Maybe because we're not sure that prayer changes anything; Maybe because we believe that doing and praying are two opposite things; Maybe because we've been taught that the best we can…
Dear Northwest Pastors, In a class I took from Eugene Peterson on Pastoral Theology, at Regent College, he encouraged pastors to have their ministries shaped by books on ministry and the church, written two to five hundred years back. Contemporary…
Spokane Fatherhood Conference Friday, January 20, 2017 9:00 AM - 4:00 PM Lincoln Center in Spokane, WA 1316 North Lincoln Street Spokane, WA 99201 Register by going to Event Brite and search for "Spokane Fatherhood Conference" GOD IS CALLING THE…