Barbers Would Make Great Ministers Why do we feel so excited to go to our barber or stylist? We love to look good and be pampered, but I think it’s something more. Barbershops are a lot like churches.  A place filled with people from different backgrounds and vocations coming together looking for the same thing. The hope of leaving better than they came.  I think newly styled hair is only one reason people leave feeling better. If the barbershop is like a church, then barbers are like ministers. A good...

The Great Green Room Debate Recently, author and podcaster, Natalie Runion shared a thought regarding the classic church green room. She received quite a response for and against having a green room. My wife literally just got done reading her book, Raised To Stay, and has been raving about it. I haven’t gotten a chance to read it, however I understand the book is “An honest exploration of disappointment with the church” and “is for anyone weary of God’s people, but longing to keep their faith in God”. In other...

According to most surveys 70% of the people who help plant churches will no longer attend that church after three years. I set out to personally change that statistic within my own church plant, Rhiza. Unfortunately, we ended up with about the same average. Granted, we planted two weeks before a world pandemic, but even so I was quite surprised after looking back at how many of our launch team were no longer on mission with us. Church members come and go. Not just at church plants, but at every...

4 Ways To Help Your Church Members Redeem Their Taps, Swipes & Clicks If you’re like most people, you check your smartphone first thing every morning and make it the last thing you check before you go to sleep. You also pick it up several times during the day to find out what your friends are up to, to get your mind off the stresses of life, to keep up with pop culture or to entertain yourself while on the toilet. How many times does “several times a day” actually...

More than 300 years ago, a smart scientist named Isaac Newton came up with three basic laws that describe the way things move. One of these laws says that for every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction. This is the most important idea behind how rockets work. When we launch things into space, we do so by putting them on rockets with enough fuel — called propellant — to boost them above most of Earth’s atmosphere. The propellants give the rocket enough energy to boost away from Earth’s...