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What a difference great teaching makes!

What a difference good teaching makes! In my last book, You Can Double Your Class in Two Years or Less (Group Publishing, 1997), I emphasized all the things you can do to make people want to become a part of your class or small group. I suggested that you invite every member and every visitor […]

7 + 1 Marks of Great Preaching and Teaching

Here are a few things that come to my mind when I think of good preaching. You might want to add to the list. Biblical. Psychology, history, sociology, science, and pop-culture can inform and illustrate. They cannot be the basis of the sermon. The sermon must be squarely rooted in the Bible. It could be […]

Home groups are not in competition with Sunday School

There is a common perception about this that is just plain wrong. The perception is that Sunday School is in competition with home groups. It is not. Sunday School is not in competition with home groups, home groups are in competition with Sunday night and Wednesday night. Here is why I have seen home groups […]

Six ways of doing home groups

I would argue that Sunday School has been used to reach more people than any other tool in history. More than bus ministry, more than seeker services, more than cell groups, more than revivals, more than radio and TV. Before we abandon this tried and true method—and we might abandon it—let’s make sure that home […]

Are home groups replacing Sunday School?

Henry Blackaby taught us to find out where God is at work and join Him in what He is doing. God is clearly doing a new thing with home groups. I remember reading Dr. Cho’s book, Successful Home Cell Groups back in the 80s. What is not to get excited about? A church in South […]

How technology can help your music

I have two boys in their 20s who helped start a church this year. It meets on Saturday night using someone else’s church building. As you might guess, the music is thoroughly contemporary. The music is also quite professional for a church of its size—less than one hundred. Technology is their friend. There are five […]

Max Lucado on Hell

“Yes, hell’s misery is deep, but not as deep as God’s love. So how do we apply this message? If you are saved, it should cause you to rejoice. You’ve been rescued. A glance into hell leads the believer to rejoice. But it also leads the believer to redouble his efforts to reach the lost. […]

A short course on change

When you follow God, you never really know where you’re going. Abraham followed God to who knows where. That is how it is when we follow God. We may think we are going to move this church to the transitioning model or the freshening up model for the new church model. We can’t be sure. […]

Greg Laurie on the reality of Hell (and what we should do about it)

Not long ago on a Christian television show, the interviewer asked me why I spoke so much about eternity. “When I’ve watched you preach on your TV program or at a crusade,” he said, “I’ve noticed whatever topic you’re dealing with, you always come back to eternity. “So why do you do that?” he asked […]

Does it really matter what music style we use?

My first book, Let It Grow! dealt with music. I used to do seminars on this topic. I would speak for three hours on the idea that in order to reach young people we need to use the music of young people. It is just a missionary principle to me. It is missions 101. I […]