In his book You Lost Me, David Kinnaman talks about the research he has done at Barna Research about the numbers of young adults who are leaving the church or, never finding it in the first place.  A lot of what he has written we can verify from our Kairos ministry, a young adult worship service we started over 8 years ago. There is greater detail of how Kairos happened in my book, In Real Time. Pastors of other churches will call me and ask me how we reach young adults in our setting. As I tell them some of the ……

Jeff Cornwall, Jack C. Massey Chair in Entrepreneurship, Director Center for Entrepreneurship and Professor of Marketing at Belmont University, wrote an article in the February 13 edition of The Tennessean entitled, “As Business Grows, Entrepreneur’s Role Must Shift.” As a new business grows, Cornwall points out: the role of the entrepreneur has to change from doing the business to running the business. This transition is notoriously dicey and the failure to negotiate this transition has kept more than one good idea from being marketed successfully. We are familiar with the story. An inventor designs a new widget and begins a ……

Several years ago, a well-known pastor was caught in an affair.  His ministry and family all paid an extremely high price.  He was a friend and mentor to me.  He could preach, he was writing books—he had everything… or so we thought. After his public fall, one question haunted me, “What’s not there that I think is there?” That’s the question I found myself asking again as I heard of Whitney Houston’s death.  “What’s not there that I think is there?” Whenever I heard her sing, I would think “I would give anything to sing like that!”  Has anyone ever ……

Ok, let me get this straight.  According to USA Today, Valentine’s Day is one of the most active days for websites that encourage and help facilitate extra-marital affairs. What? Yep, that’s right. The article says if your spouse is disappointed with your Valentine’s Day effort, it  may be the final straw that sends them looking for excitement and love in someone else. One of the founders of a website that caters to “discreet” encounters for married people says Valentine’s Day is one of their busiest days of the year. Are you kidding me? This is how upside down our world ……