Heads up, Leader—You CAN Make Disciples Like Jesus Did
If we’re making disciples like Jesus did, then there’s a different paradigm at work. It all starts with you, the leader as you gather...
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Mark Snowden
Oct 7
Running for Daylight
Running backs in football have an amazing knack for finding a hole in the line just wide enough to sprint through. And once they pop...
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Mark Snowden
Sep 30
Learning from our History
Community engagement is our theme this year. In order to be intentional, it often requires that we learn from our history in order to...
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Mark Snowden
Sep 23
Reaching the Next Generations
Years ago I subscribed to a magazine called Mental Floss. Today it is an online publication. As I was looking through it, I was astounded...
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Mark Snowden
Sep 16
Cincinnati is a Mission Field
This is a call for CABA church leaders to re-think their community as a mission field. Our theme for this coming year starting next month...
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Mark Snowden
Sep 9
Progressing toward Faith and Action
How people learn is important. How they progress toward belief and action is more important. A white-haired man was introduced to me...
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Mark Snowden
Sep 2
What’s It Gonna Take to Reach Cincinnati with the Gospel?
Jesus advised a man to “count the cost” before following Him. The WIGtake question is “ W hat’s I t G onna take to reach Cincinnati with...
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Mark Snowden
Aug 26
Living as a Missionary
There’s a joke going around that when a person was offering medical advice, he said that he wasn’t a doctor, but had played one on TV. A...
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Mark Snowden
Aug 19
Networking for Gospel Advancement
Did you know that CABA’s church members are only 2.6% of all evangelicals in the Cincinnati Area? Evangelicals are defined by the...
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Mark Snowden
Aug 12
Evangelism planning tips for your church
Jesus told His followers that the Holy Spirit would give them power to be His witnesses here, there, and everywhere (Acts 1:8). Here are...
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Mark Snowden
Aug 5
Of Adherents and the Unclaimed
Imagine you lived back in July 1881. A fire in a toy factory almost burned Cincinnati to the ground. Factories that were fire traps...
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Mark Snowden
Jul 29
Starting a Leadership Factory
What if your church was known as a leadership factory? Is it possible to “grow your own” leaders? The idea is to start with just one...
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Mark Snowden
Jul 22
Calling for a Change in How to Make Leaders
Over the past eight years, I have met virtually every pastor in CABA and listened closely to them. My heart often breaks as I hear...
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Mark Snowden
Jul 15
Going Deep with Disciple-makers
After school, the neighborhood boys would play football. As the quarterback, I’d send a neighbor kid down the field with the command, “Go...
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Mark Snowden
Jul 8
How Any Church Can Start a New Church
Within 90 days of teaching 19 church members from several churches how to start a church, they had begun a biker church and a Hispanic...
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Mark Snowden
Jul 1
What’s Going Wrong in the Harvest?
My nephew manages several grain elevators in Kentucky. Touring the facility, my wife and I learned that when a loaded truck pulled up...
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Mark Snowden
Jun 24
Numbers that show community transformation
Your car’s tires have a number for ideal inflation. Your body’s blood pressure, sugar, and cholesterol have ideal numbers. When I had...
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Mark Snowden
Jun 18
Is Evangelism Work or Play?
A number of veteran IMB missionaries were given personality tests and then given four samples of print materials to evaluate. Since this...
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Mark Snowden
Jun 11
The 8 elements leading to a community-wide revival
Imagine a community with rampant drugs, teen pregnancy, and alcohol. Half the freshman classes never graduated high school. Unchurched...
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Mark Snowden
Jun 3
Equipping for Engagement
The pastor from another state sat across the table from me. He saw no need for equipping mission trip team members in his church. He was...
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