Is your Southern Baptist church in alignment with the Baptist Faith & Message 2000? Baptism preceding membership and the Lord’s Supper...

Two churches have closed in the past six months in the Cincinnati Area. They provide an opportunity to learn, even in churches that are...

Orality is one of the most highly reproducible methods for bringing spiritual transformation for a church. Proven methods that I picked...

Church-related work is mainly done through people who want to invest their time and talents to meet a need through your local church....

During high school, I lettered two years in track. I did the pole vault, high jump, and ran 880 yards, which was twice around the track....

Could your life be summarized in a sentence? King David was a valiant warrior and godly king, but this one verse provides a terse, but...

In Malcolm Gladwell’s management book, David & Goliath, the villain was depicted as a tank and the hero was like a jet. Goliath was...

When my daughter was baptized at the age of seven, a lady in our church turned to my wife and me and asked, “Now, how will you disciple...

After 9/11, I agreed with leaders across the evangelical world to avoid military language so that Islamists would not view followers of...

It was a pleasure to be a presenter at the Evangelical Missiological Society's Annual Conference last year. Here are 10 of my take-aways...

After a training session that I led in Texas, a local missionary confided in me, “Mark, I’ve been telling Bible stories with one refugee...

Many learn Bible Storying in order to use the technique on mission trips. What they learn in the States should be used to accelerate...

The Cincinnati Area Baptist Association (CABA) invests in church planters through services that would benefit them rather than fund them....

Experiences bring more joy than things you own. Family vacations, mission trips, Christian concerts, and, yes, lively discussions in a...

Church leaders, especially pastors, connect with me all the time asking how to bring change without (a) getting them fired and (b) to...

Here are the last five requirements to start a disciple-making revolution in your church. #6: Empower Leaders: Revolutions bring out the...

Changing yourself is one thing. Changing the culture of a people is something else. Yet, change is possible. Just think it – we’re...

If a Pastor Search Team does not have a plan, then they typically focus on the preaching aspect. Is he a good pulpiteer? Can he bring it?...

At last year’s annual state baptist convention meeting, Sandy Wisdom-Martin, the WMU executive director, came up to me and said that I...

When I was learning to drive, my Dad asked me, “Why do you stop at a stop sign?” When I said, “Because it’s the law,” he agreed, but said...