Month: October 2012

  • Pastors get the world at Urbana 12, both Big and Small

    Are you a pastor or do you know pastors and church leaders? You know we all need to enlarge our hearts for the next generation and for the world, and the best place to do that is at Urbana 12, December 26-31, in St. Louis! Get the best of both worlds: the inspiring energy of…

  • Making of a Movement: Multi-site Churches

    There’s something exciting about being a part of movement. And there are some people who want to start a movement. How do you start a movement? One of the most significant movements in recent church history is an (organized) church that meets in multiple locations, the multi-site church movement. I connected with Greg Ligon to…

  • Lip Dub Video for the City of Aliso Viejo

    I live in Aliso Viejo, California, and there’s over 48,000 residents here. A big community event happened on Sunday, August 18th, where more than 1,300 people participated for a city promo video called The City of Aliso Viejo’s Lip Dub :: The potentially-viral video was produced by PeopleStar FilmWorks, a new production company founded by…

  • Listen to leading voices from the global church

    The world is much bigger than America, and according to what’s reported in books like The Next Christendom: The Coming of Global Christianity, people are responding to the Christian Gospel message in far larger numbers in Africa and Asia than America. While the marketing platforms aren’t being used as actively in the non-Western world to…

  • NWLC California 2012 Slides

    Here in Escondido, a suburban city I think you can call it, North of San Diego, California, for this regional rendition of National Worship Leader Conference October 9-11. 3 full days of conferencing to equip the every member of the church leadership & volunteers, those who make the weekend service happen. I’m honored to be…

  • A new kind of Christian lifestyle that’s less repulsive to people

    The reputation of Christians in mainstream culture, both in America and many parts of the world, is less than spectacular. The top 6 perceptions of Christians are (according to extensive research published in Unchristian by David Kinnaman and Gabe Lyons, via survey data of outsiders ages 16-29): antihomosexual, judgmental, hypocritical, sheltered (old-fashioned, out of touch…