Have you ever talked to a financial planner? If you haven’t, I don’t want to spoil the experience for you, but for me — having talked to several, I always felt let down. Not let down because they told me anything wrong or anything outlandish — like invest all my…

Why embrace struggle if you are more than a conqueror? Tough situations come to everybody, and I am no stranger to them. You can look at the lives of Jesus and the apostles in the early church and see that they faced their share of trials as well. What you choose to focus on will determine how you will come…

I learned from my mistake. The only way a mistake can permanently harm you is if you don’t learn from it. Sometimes things look good, sound good, or feel good, but once you have it you realize it wasn’t right for you. In the first year of our church, there were several people that came to the church with seemingly good intentions. Most, if not all…

The church had been going for about a month and a half. Our attendance was fluctuating from about five to fifteen people. One week we would have some visitors come and I would be excited about the growth. The next week the attendance would drop back down again to a handful. It was a time that I was full of excitement and also totally unsure of myself. Excited at the prospect of…

Consistency. It’s a huge element to being successful in anything that you do, but can be one of the biggest challenges to master. It’s something that you have to work at with concentrated effort in order to make it a part of your life. Starting something new is fun and exciting. Often the first day, week, or month of a new adventure can be totally exhilarating. …

I started a church when I was 25 years old and I had no idea what I was doing. — You might feel God calling you to do something but you're not quite sure how to start. Maybe you just started a career or you're a 30-year veteran. It doesn’t really matter how long you’ve been with the company, you only have one life, you should live it to its…

Life is good. Life is bad. Either way, it is God because of God. Or is it the devil’s fault? Maybe it’s something I did? Many people don’t know why they are experiencing the quality of life that they have. When things are good- they are happy with God. When…

There are two sides of the coin in ministry, the spiritual and the practical. There is the spiritual side of ministry, such as prayer, preaching, evangelism, and more. But there also is a very practical side of ministry; the business side. Finances, payroll, budgeting, marketing, advertising, planning, all the normal…

When my wife and I started the church, there were only a handful of people that showed up to our first service. For the first few months, we had people visit and check us out, some would stay and some would never come back. In the beginning months, sometimes we…