She had just been denied entry into a treatment center so my friends and I enthusiastically gathered around to support her. She spent the next five days coming back to life in our living room.

At the end of the day, our art is simply a donkey.. Just like the one that carried Jesus.. just a donkey, who’s purpose was to carry the Savior.

It is true that we cannot do everything. But we absolutely cannot let that thought keep us from doing what we can.

In his words, "engaging culture is the most important thing I can do with my life." Hear an honest dialogue with one of the most influential pastors in our culture, Rick Warren, in this Q Talk.

For further learning, Q recommends reading “Renewing Cities Through Missional Tribes,” a Q Short from Jon Tyson, Pastor of Trinity Grace Church.

Innovation is a popular buzz word now and a sought after topic of discussion in conferences and the ministry resource world. I approach innovation a little differently and try my best to look at it through a Biblical lens.

We are finite.  We have a limited amount of time and energy. In order to be effective and create a sustainable yet exponentially growing movement, we need to keep asking, “What is the simplest thing that could possibly work?”

Whether we have intended this or not, the world tends to see people who follow Jesus as angry and judgemental - toward the very people we're called to reach!

Every ministry leader needs to be a positive. They also need to know who the positives, negatives, and neutrals are both in official leadership and unofficial leadership in their ministry.