***Update: The webinar is now full, but will be available as a limited time replay.*** Tomorrow at 12pm CST JR Woodward will host a free webinar entitled “How to Go Beyond Church Planting to Starting a Missional Movement.” As of the time this was published, there were still a few spots left, so click here to register. We summarize our …

One of my favorite things to say about church planters is that almost anyone who knows and loves God, people and appropriately loves self can start a church of some kind. Here are a few people whose stories come to mind. There all named Bill. Bill Wagner: Racquetball and Iran Bill Wagner has planted ten churches in four countries: the …

Today is Maundy Thursday! Are you ready for Good Friday? Holy Saturday? Easter? Christine Sine keeps a running list of Holy Week resources blog. They include: Resources for Celebrating Holy Week With Kids Resources for Palm Sunday Resources for Maundy Thursday Resources for Good Friday Stations of the Cross Resources for Easter Sunday

I love everything about preaching—planning sermons, studying and research, Sunday delivery, feeling spent on Sunday evening—all of it. I’d love to do it every Sunday, but I believe that it’s not best for me to do so. It’s also not the best thing for our church community Austin Mustard Seed. As I have written before, we believe that our liturgy …

So many people are working hard at “ministry,” but they aren’t necessarily doing discipleship. Clearly, this wasn’t what Jesus had in mind. Register now for this free Q &A with Tim Catchim on Thursday, March 19, and be ready to ask him ANYTHING!

As I talk with various church leaders, I am discovering a common misunderstanding about the difference between ministry and disciple making. Describing the difference between disciple making and ministry is kind of like describing the difference between a square and a rectangle. A square can be a rectangle, but a rectangle is not necessarily a square. They both have four …

While some family friends were visiting us from Florida, they were awakened by a flurry of text messages and e-mail alerts to some startling news. The building that housed their worship center and an array of community services was collapsing due to a water main leak. The news immediately included the awareness that the building had been unoccupied, and there …

I was driving back form Huntsville, AL recently, and I was doing what I normally do on long trips…doodling in my little black book, developing diagrams and reviewing previous notes. I turned to my wife as she was driving and shared with her the matrix I was working on in relation to the gathered and scattered church. The more I shared …

Soon I will be posting about my top ten books on leadership. In anticipation for the post, I wanted to share with you one of my top ten leadership books now. It is entitled Leading with a Limp: Turning Your Struggles into Strengths, by Dan Allender.  I read this book a number of years ago, and on an annual basis …

At V3, we’re committed to equipping you to start a movement. Over the last year, we’ve published dozens of articles from real life church planting practitioners. They have ranged from collections of resources, such as JR Woodward’s “Top Ten Books on Church Planting” to cutting observations like Dan White, Jr’s “Five Points of Bitterness Common in the Missional Church.” Below are our …