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...

Imagine you lived back in July 1881. A fire in a toy factory almost burned Cincinnati to the ground. Factories that were fire traps...

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...

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...

After school, the neighborhood boys would play football. As the quarterback, I’d send a neighbor kid down the field with the command, “Go...

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...

My nephew manages several grain elevators in Kentucky. Touring the facility, my wife and I learned that when a loaded truck pulled up...

Your car’s tires have a number for ideal inflation. Your body’s blood pressure, sugar, and cholesterol have ideal numbers. When I had...

A number of veteran IMB missionaries were given personality tests and then given four samples of print materials to evaluate. Since this...

Imagine a community with rampant drugs, teen pregnancy, and alcohol. Half the freshman classes never graduated high school. Unchurched...

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...

It has been great to view a few Christian movies and TV series over the past year. Excellent Christian radio stations broadcast...

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...

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...

Bob Bakke is an authority on revival and spiritual awakening. In a symposium in which I participated, Bakke spoke in detail about the...

After interviewing five men from Central Asia in refugee camps, I asked them what would attract them to actually listen to Bible stories...

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...

In his book, Fahrenheit 451, author Ray Bradbury depicted book-burning as a way to control the masses. The government in that dystopian...

Churches with an evangelism strategy have many more baptisms, some 60% more. The key is to be intentional and specific when seeking the...

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...