Okay, you all know I’m no stranger to controversy. This may be the most controversial podcast I’ve ever done. I find that sad to be honest. The church is often on the wrong side of social justice issues, as it was in the 1960s. There’s hope though. I find more hope coming from church planting…

Recently I was able to spend several hours hanging out with a church planter  who is in trouble. It seems he called the wrong bunch when launching his church. This church plant was a congregation “hiving off” of a larger church that has a vision for planting churches. He had freedom to recruit anyone but…

In 2013, I wrote a little book called Church Zero. It was punchy, humorous, and 1st Century. It got 109 reviews (85% of them 4 or 5 stars). Today, I received notice that Zondervan has formally accepted my manuscript for my next book REACHING THE UNREACHED: Becoming Raiders of a Lost Art.

I sat transfixed as addicts, ex-cons, and formerly homeless people shared their testimonies of how Jesus had changed their lives. It was the five year anniversary of the church I’d planted in urban Long Beach. Most of the people in the room didn’t know who I was anymore. God was continuing to move forward as…

It’s not often that I get to interview my “boss”. Now that I’ve gone corporate, I’ve got a few bosses per se, but Kevin Ezell is the reason that I wanted to work with NAMB training church planters. I talk about why in the podcast. We were privileged to sit down with man who may not…

Two young boys taught me the essence of “true” disciplemaking. I grew up in an environment where making disciples meant working with another person to fill in the blanks in a book focused on the Gospel of John. These guys put it back into the perspective of the New Testament. I mean, can you imagine…