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So you want to write a book…

The world needs the information rattling around inside your brain. I bet you’ve considered writing a book—nearly everyone has. But, if you’re like most people you probably don’t think your thoughts really measure up. Or, maybe you have too few connections to interest a publisher. Whatever holds you back can hardly stand up to the…

Why Do You Preach Every Sunday–Guest blog by JD Pearring

I have a confession to make. For several years I actually preached 53 times per year (every Sunday and Christmas Eve.) My typical pattern was speaking 48-50 Sundays a year. I was very careful about letting the pulpit go. Too careful, too controlling. I have since repented. I moved from speaking all the time, to…

How to Build Your Team thru Succession Management

I can remember waking in fear nearly every Sunday morning. I served as a staff pastor in a small San Fernando Valley (California) church. My job was to oversee the operation of a cradle to grave Sunday School. Each week I could anticipate that someone would fail to show up on Sunday morning. If I…

Five Star Friday

What I’m celebrating: My brother, V.C. Jones III a.k.a “Trey Jones” published his first novel! Now, in my family, the writing thing is genetic. My grandfather was a best-selling civil war author, and my father was a playwright. One specialized in fiction, and the other in non-fiction. So when the gene pool decided to trickle…

Five Star Friday

So I know you’ve been missing my Five Star Fridays. I’ve heard your requests for more and today I’m giving you another peak into my week! What I’m pondering – Gods grace on our enemies. I had somebody wrong me. Really wrong me. For the best part of the past year my family and I…

The Culture In The Middle

The church planter called me up from Salt Lake City, Utah. He needed to talk about his culture. 99% of the nice side of town was affluent mormons, while the other side of the tracks was a shame based culture of failed mormons. He had been spinning his wheels for three years, trying to make…

Creating A Church Planting Hub

There are a few times that I share my consuming passion. I’m consumed with training church planters, as I know the Apostle Paul was. The thing is, he kept getting better and better at it. I know that we can too. On today’s podcast, I share about how to create an Ephesus style church planting…

16 Years From Now…Where Will you Be?

So, I had a conversation with my mentor, Mac Lake. Mac is a dynamo of all things leadership related. He’s probably forgotten more than I’ll ever know. I was recently speaking with him on the phone when I had a conversation about some large opportunities looming on the horizon. Mac spoke to me about the vision for…

Faith and Driving School

I’m not a mystic, although I’ve been called one. I don’t claim to understand anything about God and how he works. I mean, I study the Bible, and draw as many blanks as Job, the Psalmist, or John on the isle of Patmos. That said, I’ve got a theory. You know what a theory is,…

God Doesn't Need You To Be Cool To Reach Urban

In 2008 I started training church planters. I’d been overseas for nearly ten years in Europe. I’d won some, lost some, and born a few scars, both literal and metaphoric. Without any significant church planting movement to speak of for nearly 30 years, since the Jesus movement, finding help, training, or mentorship from…