Blockbuster video was amazing in its prime. Just 10 years ago, they had 9,000 locations and over 60,000 employees. It made renting a movie "simple and convenient" because they had so many locations. We only had to drive across town to access hundreds of movies from a wide variety of...

    Welcome to this Thursday’s edition of the unSeminary podcast. This week I’m super-excited to be talking to Chris Vacher, also known as Chris from Canada, who is an excellent leader at C4 Church, east of Toronto. Chris got this week’s session started by filling us in on his...

1/3 of all "prime time" internet traffic is from Netflix. We can't ignore the popularity of Netflix. It's a mixture of clever marketing, excellent deployment and being in the right place at the right time. In a move similar to what iTunes did in the music industry 10 years ago, Netflix has...

  Welcome to this Thursday’s podcast on unSeminary. Today, I had the privilege of talking to Ron Walborn, Dean of Alliance Theological Seminary. We talked about assessment and how to determine if people are growing. I asked Ron what sort of things we should be thinking about as pastors when...

The first church I served at was in the middle of a worship war when I started there. It was like a cold war with a lot of passive-aggressive leadership on both sides of the debate. The "Hymns & Organ Crowd" declared that their music was rich with theological significance, whereas the...

  This week on the unSeminary Podcast, Tim Cool with Cool Solutions joined me for a tremendously informative and enlightening conversation about stewarding the facilities God has entrusted to us. Tim is the father of 18-year-old triplets who are in their last quarter of high school, almost ready to take...

Easter is the biggest of big days at your church. People are more likely to invite friends ... and their friends are more likely to attend! You have a lot to consider when preparing. Here are some smaller details that will add to your Easter experience. Don't debate them —...

Karen Veenstra is part of our staff team at Liquid Church. I asked her to reflect on an event we hosted a few weeks back called Night2Shine ... a prom for adults with special needs. It was an amazing evening, one of those times where I was so proud of...

We were recently on a leadership team retreat, taking time to reflect on what God is doing at our church. I'm honored to serve at Liquid Church and I count it a privilege to play a small part in what it's doing. One of the things we were celebrating from...

The multisite revolution is the biggest thing to happen to the broader church movement in my almost 20 years of ministry. I've personally been involved in the launch of 12 campuses—working on 2 more as we speak!—and I've coached a bunch of other leaders through the process. I've written a lot...