As most of you know, Why Holiness Matters is that first book I’ve published and launched. I’d like to tell you writing a book is a carefree and fun process, but the truth is I put hundreds of hours into researching, writing, editing, and lately, marketing the book. Over the past few months most of…
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Give Up Your Refrigerator Rights
We’ve all heard the importance of living by the mantra of “People Over Projects.” People and relationships are the marrow of life that all of our lives should be working toward building, growing, and connecting to. I would imagine many of you are like me though, in that you are task-driven, and get fulfillment about…
Why Your Church Helps Your Holiness
From Tyler: Today’s post is from pastor and author Daniel Darling. Having written a book on holiness myself I spent a lot of time processing through the role church can play in our development as followers of Jesus. I think Daniel lends a much needed perspective in this post and I’m glad to share it…
Community Isn’t Easy
Having written about the importance of community being the key to any church, I’ve been challenged to seek after community in my life, rather than ignoring it. This isn’t easy for me. As many of you know, I am an “INTJ” meaning that people often drain my energy, whereas they help energize my wife Rose.…
Ineffective Church
Plenty of people have different quotes and opinions on when a church becomes ineffective. I find most of them to be ecclesiologically unsound because they put the church-emphasis toward practicality, when the church is first a people group. Therefore, an ineffective or dying church must result from a lack of community within the body, not…
Embracing the Mess
Today’s post is from my friend and fellow pastor AJ Swoboda who grew up in the same town as me. We spent several years together at the same church and youth group, though neither of us want to share about our time doing a high school church musical together 🙂 I’m really excited for him…