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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Mark Snowden
May 27
Using Media to Accelerate Response to the Gospel
It has been great to view a few Christian movies and TV series over the past year. Excellent Christian radio stations broadcast...
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Mark Snowden
May 20
Plowing, Planting, and Harvesting in Your Fields
A farmer spent years teaching his son how to plow, plant, and harvest. Through the years the farmer grew old. By 1947, the man was a...
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Mark Snowden
May 13
How to Bring Change
The Lord must be trying to tell me something. I’ve been reading about change and attended what I thought was a seminar on church...
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Apr 29
Is spiritual awakening imminent? And will you be included?
Bob Bakke is an authority on revival and spiritual awakening. In a symposium in which I participated, Bakke spoke in detail about the...
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Apr 22
Evangelizing in the Furnace
After interviewing five men from Central Asia in refugee camps, I asked them what would attract them to actually listen to Bible stories...
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Mark Snowden
Apr 18
Are We Training Our Pastors Wrong?
The email said, “Mark, we’d like you to address this topic: ‘Are We Training Our Pastors Wrong?’” Now, there’s a good way to alienate...
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Apr 15
Aligning with Jesus
In his book, Fahrenheit 451, author Ray Bradbury depicted book-burning as a way to control the masses. The government in that dystopian...
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Apr 8
An Evangelism Strategy for Churches
Churches with an evangelism strategy have many more baptisms, some 60% more. The key is to be intentional and specific when seeking the...
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Apr 1
Where’s Your Focus?
In the third grade, my buddy Jimmy let me borrow his new glasses. I shouted, “Hey Mom, when you wear these glasses, you can see every...
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Mar 25
More than purple jars
My mother’s favorite story is from her childhood. It was about a little girl who needed new shoes, but foolishly spent her money on a...
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Mar 18
Elements of a Change Strategy
Change just to change is bad, but change to make a difference for the cause of Christ is a very good thing. So, what’s the best way to...
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Mar 11
Impacting the NextGen
When I led a Sunday School class for our church’s college students, I was astounded one Sunday when one long-time Christian and faithful...
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Mar 4
What has the Lord Sent You to Say?
Few people know that I majored in broadcasting in college and that my masters is in communications management. From time to time I dip...
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