Darrian Graves: Mobilizing a Movement One Leader at a Time Darrian Graves didn’t set out to be a pastor. He was a digital media major with a passion for storytelling and a dream of becoming a news anchor. But God had a different story to write with his life—one that would center not on personal […]
Most pastors are past the “should I even try this” phase. They are in the messier middle: using AI regularly, getting real value from it, and still carrying a set of unresolved questions they have not had a good place to work through. I am encouraged by that, because these questions are about integrity, trust, […]
Twenty years ago, Tim Keller called the church to plant new congregations. The next call is here. In February 2002, Tim Keller wrote a short article called ”Why Plant Churches.” The lead sentence was a thunderclap. The vigorous, continual planting of new congregations, he argued, is the single most crucial strategy for the growth of the […]
In preparation for an upcoming staff retreat, our Executive Pastor asked us to send her our StrengthsFinder results. If you’re not familiar with it, StrengthsFinder is an assessment tool – also called CliftonStrengths – developed by Gallup that identifies your top five natural talents out of 34 possible strength themes. The idea is that when […]
