Christmas Isn’t Over Yet

Now that Christmas Day is over many of us feel let down because the day we have been anticipating for so long has passed. The malls strip their elaborate decorations and junk their remaining Christmas stocks with huge 50-70% off sales. Christmas wreaths and trees are thrown out for the garbage collectors and our frenzied activities give way to a low grade …

Church Planters: What Would Help You Most in 2018?

At the V3 Movement, we’re committed to providing tangible resources that will help you make disciples, plant churches and start a movement. These days, there is A LOT of Church Planting material out there. It can feel like drinking out of a firehose. The only problem is, some of it is better than others. Some of it might not be …

Church Planter: Jesus Moved On. Should You?

Imagine that you have tried your best to make disciples out of a handful of people, but their interest in Jesus never goes beyond curiosity. Not a single one of them have made a commitment to obedience to Jesus for as long as you have been investing into those relationships. Or, let’s say no matter how hard and how long …

How To Get Out of the Church Planting Celebrity Trap

In a previous post I talked about the subtle but powerful temptation to plant a church with a celebrity fan club culture instead of a missional movement culture. I talked about how to diagnose whether a celebrity fan club culture is creeping into your church plant. Now I want to talk about a few concrete actions you can take as …

What Would Martin Luther Do With an iPhone?

The tech revolution didn’t begin with the iPhone in 2008. It began 500 years with the creation of the printing press.  That innovative technology transported people all over the planet into this new modern world. How a 33-Year-Old Unleashed Technology on the Church This year we are celebrating the radical action of a 33 year old named Martin Luther.  Martin …

Thanksgiving: Not Just For Thanksgiving Anymore

I love Thanksgiving. Ask anyone who knows me. I have even been known to celebrate it multiple times a year. Because of my passion for T-day people usually assume that my favorite food is turkey or mashed potatoes. Well, I like pumpkin pie as much as the next gal but that is not why I am a Thanksgiving evangelist. It …

When Dating Becomes Pastoral Care: Three Stories from the Trenches

It’s been a little over 6 months since my blog post, Single White Female Pastor, and just over a year since I started this online dating thing. I wrote that original post because in today’s Christian culture there seems to be an unwritten bias that the married life is more important, valued, and desired than the single life. The response …

Six Tips for Recovering the Awe and Wonder of the Holidays

We are heading into what for many church planters is the busiest time of the year. Halloween, All Saints Day, Thanksgiving, Advent and Christmas are almost here. What is meant to be an exciting celebration of the awe and wonder of Christ’s coming in human form to dwell amongst us, has instead become a season of overwork, exhaustion, and burn …

Is Your Church Plant Just a Celebrity Fan Club?

To be a church planter, you need to have vision to see something that doesn’t exist yet. You also need to organize your life around the goal of seeing that vision become a reality. There are a million temptations along the way, mostly having to do with trying to take control of the process, attempting to make things happen instead …

How V3 Supports Women Planting Churches

A toxic approach to gender is having tangible effects on our culture. Recently, we’ve seen Hollywood shaken by a widespread and ignored sexual assault scandal. Some voices are pointing out that this problem will never go away as long as men hold the primary places of power as producers, studio executives and directors. It would be naïve to think this …