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This month’s picture -- December 2023 mission trip to Honduras: never pass up an opportunity to share the Good News with those who will listen! [Click picture to enlarge.]

Honduras Bible study

Effective ministry and mission work is a team effort. Jan and I have shared ministry and mission work for 55 years! Countless people have encouraged us, supported us, loved us, and prayed for us. In addition to the customary "Brother Bob" or "Hermano Bob," I am also known as dad and papa (pa-paw). One of my favorite breakfasts is huevos fritos, frijoles, and tortillas, with hot sauce and a cup of rich coffee! The greatest joy of my life is being part of the kingdom of Jesus my King. My #1 priority is to advance "kingdom things" and to help develop authentic "kingdom people." I seek to share the Good News about Jesus everywhere I go, helping people find Jesus and helping people mature as disciples of Jesus. One of the greatest blessings of my life is to be loved by many people around the world!

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Articles About Church

Church: General

  • 1.26.22 | Is Our Experience during the Pandemic Calling the Church toward Simplicity?
  • 4.10.20 | The Church and the Pandemic #1: The Pandemic and Loneliness
  • 4.10.20 | The Church and the Pandemic #2: This Is the Church's Moment
  • 12.12.19 | The Importance of Discipleship in Developing Healthy Churches
  • 11.28.19 | Seeking Alternative Biblical and Practical Expressions of Church: Reviewing the Past One-Third Century (1985-2019)
  • 7.10.19 | Gathering vs. Going: Rethinking What It Means to Be Church
  • 12.23.16 | Work of Church Depends on Problem You See
  • 11.26.16 | A Biblical Model of Church: Mutuality, Message, Ministry
  • 5.17.15 | Five Areas where Church Should Refocus
  • 4.25.15 | Seminar: Characteristics of a Spiritual Church
  • 4.22.15 | Challenges Confronting the Church
  • 12.15.14 | Bells and Steeples and Churches
  • 9.3.14 | What is God's View of the Church?
  • 5.31.14 | Is Your Church Healthy?
  • 3.23.14 | Churches, Bells and Steeples
  • 5.26.13 | Renewing the Focus of the Church
  • 4.29.13 | Renewing Broken Churches
  • 4.10.13 | The Culture of the Church
  • 7.16.12 | Broken Churches
  • 5.7.12 | Model Churches
  • 5.4.11 | Church: Mission, Method, Maturity
  • 3.25.11 | Ephesians: The DNA of the Church where the Spirit Dwells
  • 3.7.11 | Why Do Churches Grow?
  • 11.15.10 | My Dream for the Church
  • 10.23.10 | Reflections: Making a Difference
  • 10.23.10 | Encouraging Observations: Keeping On Keeping On
  • 10.19.10 | Churches Filled with Non-Serious People
  • 9.7.10 | God Makes the Church a Community [1 Cor. 12-14]
  • 3.24.10 | Tardiness: Kick the Habit
  • 3.24.10 | Absenteeism: Kick the Habit
  • 3.24.10 | Churches Feel the Competition
  • 3.1.10 | Church Identity: Seeking Understanding
  • 3.1.10 | Is Your Church Dying? Factors that Threaten the Church
  • 2.27.10 | Undenominational Claim--Denominational Worldview
  • 9.4.09 | Seven Characteristics of Effective, Biblical Churches
  • 2.23.09 | Church: Where the Gifts of God Come into View
  • 8.6.08 | Stress Fractures
  • 8.6.08 | What Is Fellowship?
  • 11.10.06 | Why Does the Church Exist (1)
  • 11.10.06 | Why Does the Church Exist (2)
  • 11.10.06 | Why Does the Church Exist (3): Implications for Ministry Training
  • 2.18.04 | Who Are the Churches of Christ?
  • 10.9.03 | Product and Package!
  • 3.7.03 | Thinking About Differences
  • 1.31.03 | The Church is the Hope of the World
  • 6.9.02 | Is the Church "Playing Small"?
  • 1.8.02 | What Are the Marks of a Good Church?
  • 1.8.02 | The Church Is Like A Jigsaw Puzzle
  • 1.2.02 | The Church is Not....
  • 1.2.02 | How's The Church Doing?
  • 1.2.02 | Neglecting the Church to Death
  • 1.2.02 | You Should Be In Bible School Because...
  • 1.21.01 | The Church Is a Place of Belonging
  • Church: Mission, Purpose, and Vision

  • 2.23.22 | Spillover Effect: What's in the Bucket?
  • 2.23.22 | Time to Reset Goals and Cast a Renewed Vision [Acts 27]
  • 2.23.22 | Church Planning: Theology Matters
  • 11.14.20 | Integrating Discipleship, Mission, and the Development of Missional Communities
  • 7.10.19 | Gathering vs. Going: Rethinking What It Means to Be Church
  • 6.25.17 | Setting Biblical Goals in the Local Church
  • 12.23.16 | How to Make Your Vision a Reality
  • 11.26.16 | Vision: Three Essential Steps toward Implementation
  • 6.24.16 | The Importance of a Strong, Compelling Vision for the Future
  • 6.7.14 | In sync with the mission
  • 11.18.13 | What if the church misses its purpose?
  • 5.6.11 | Church Mission: Why? What? How?
  • 5.6.11 | ASCEND: The Christian Mission
  • 5.6.11 | Church: Purpose, Identity, Agenda, Renewal
  • 5.6.11 | The Purpose of the Church: What Business Are We In?
  • 3.7.11 | Serious About God's Purpose
  • 11.8.06 | Purpose, Mission, and Vision
  • 11.8.06 | Rethinking Vision: Basic ABC's
  • 5.22.06 | What Business Are We In?
  • 10.7.03 | A Vision Worthy of Our God
  • 8.15.03 | Sharing the Vision
  • 7.1.03 | What Is Our Mission?
  • Church Health

  • 7.19.23 | Church: Reading the Error Codes
  • 12.12.19 | The Importance of Discipleship in Developing Healthy Churches
  • 11.4.17 | Metrics for a Healthy Church
  • 2.16.16 | Healthy Churches--What is the Key?
  • 5.31.14 | Is Your Church Healthy?
  • 9.4.13 | Church Wellness
  • 9.4.13 | Church Health: Seven Factors
  • 6.1.13 | Healthy Churches--Faithful Churches
  • 5.26.13 | Renewing the Focus of the Church
  • 8.16.11 | Church Vital Signs
  • 2.2.10 | Mapping the Journey: Developing a Healthy Church
  • Church Planting

  • 4.6.23 | Maturing Disciples--Forming New Spiritual Families
  • 4.26.22 | When Evangelism Doesn't Translate into Multiplying Disciples and Growing Churches
  • 12.26.18 | Church Planting Matters--for the Lost, the World, the Church
  • 10.7.17 | Planting Disciple-Making Multiplying Churches
  • 9.22.16 | Why don't more churches have babies?
  • 9.1.16 | Church Planting Is One of the Best Evangelism Tools: Why I focus on developing healthy, evangelistic, missionary churches
  • 8.20.13 | Christianity in Decline: The Need for Missional Church Planting
  • 6.1.13 | We Are Planting Traditional Churches: Is There a Better Path to the Future?
  • 11.6.12 | Church Planting: Stages of Church Development
  • 2.2.10 | Elements of Church Planting or Revitalization
  • 11.15.09 | Reflections on the Church Planting Movement
  • Church Development: Planning, Renewal, Gifts, Growth, Renewal

  • 6.25.17 | Setting Biblical Goals in the Local Church
  • 4.8.13 | Finding Your Gifts, Finding Your Ministry
  • 3.9.11 | Small Groups: Church Change or Church Growth?
  • 3.7.11 | Why Do Churches Grow?
  • 7.27.10 | When the Church Needs Renewal
  • 3.1.10 | Three Imperatives for Church Renewal
  • 2.2.10 | Elements of Church Revitalization
  • 9.4.09 | Seven Characteristics of Effective, Biblical Churches
  • 2.23.09 | Reinventing the Closed System Model
  • 11.20.05 | How Do People Choose Churches Today?
  • 11.20.03 | What If We Miss Our Destiny?
  • 11.5.03 | Selective Vision
  • 11.5.03 | Four Dimensions of Church Growth
  • 10.9.03 | On Purpose
  • 9.15.03 | Do We Really Care?
  • 3.7.03 | Nothing Less Than Excellence
  • 7.17.02 | Automatic Church Growth[#1]
  • 7.17.02 | A Mission Consistent with God's Mission[#2]
  • 7.17.02 | Empowering Leadership--Structures for Encouraging and Enhancing Ministry[#3]
  • 7.17.02 | Gift-Oriented, Empowered, Participative Individual Ministry[#4]
  • 7.17.02 | Healthy Relationships, Holistic Spirituality[#5]
  • 7.17.02 | Celebrative, God-Centered Worship in the Context of Community[#6]
  • 7.17.02 | Spiritual Nurturing on the Faith Journey[#7]
  • 7.17.02 | Involvement in the Global Search[#8]
  • 1.8.02 | Catching the Vision: Developing the Church
  • 1.8.02 | The Church Is Like A Jigsaw Puzzle
  • 1.7.02 | Looking at Church Growth Again!
  • 1.7.02 | Revitalizing the Church
  • 1.2.02 | Another Look at Church Growth--1
  • 1.2.02 | Another Look at Church Growth--2
  • 1.2.02 | Another Look at Church Growth--3
  • 1.2.02 | Growing Churches Pay Attention to the Needs of Adults
  • 1.2.02 | What Do Growing Churches Have in Common?
  • Church and Contemporary Culture: News Items and Surveys [Barna, Gallup, Pew, and others]

  • 6.8.23 | Mega-Challenges Before the Church
  • 4.27.23 | Barna: The Church Must Address Loneliness
  • 6.10.14 | Taking the Gospel into Today's World: Cultural, Intellectual, and Religious Shifts
  • 8.24.13 | The Impact of Civic Religion in the United States
  • 12.17.10 | Economy Has Impact on Giving
  • 10.19.10 | Barna: Little Religious Change
  • 10.19.10 | Pew: Survey Confirms Bible Illiteracy
  • 10.6.10 | Barna: Financial Concerns Are Top Worry
  • 7.12.10 | Barna: Changes in Teen Faith
  • 6.8.10 | Lifeway: Fewer Young Adults Attend Church
  • 6.8.10 | Barna: Americans Open to New Expressions of Faith
  • [This link is to the complete essay. The next three articles divide the essay into articles suitable for church bulletins.]
  • 6.8.10 | Barna: Americans Open to New Expressions of Faith-1
  • 6.8.10 | Barna: Americans Open to New Expressions of Faith-2
  • 6.8.10 | Barna: Americans Open to New Expressions of Faith-3
  • 6.8.10 | Barna: Majority of Christians Believe Jesus Speaks Back
  • 5.7.10 | Barna Report: The Faith of African Americans
  • 5.7.10 | Barna Report: The Changing Faith of Hispanics
  • 5.7.10 | Barna Report: How Church Size Affects Faith
  • 5.7.10 | Barna Report: Beliefs Vary Widely Among Christians
  • 5.4.10 | LifeWay Research: More Churches Opening than Closing?
  • 4.15.10 | Barna: Most of the Unchurched Are Christians
  • 3.24.10 | Pew Survey: Profiling Religion among the Millennials
  • 3.24.10 | News Report: Wyoming First State to Adopt Code of Behavior
  • 3.1.10 | Barna: Reshaping Faith in the U.S.
  • 3.1.10 | Barna: Four Megathemes in U.S. Culture
  • 2.27.10 | Barna Report: Decreased Giving
  • 2.1.10 | News: Christian Worldview--Top Ten Stories of 2009
  • 2.1.10 | Barna: Developing Effective Competent Leaders
  • 2.1.10 | Pew Survey: How Religious Is Your State?
  • 2.1.10 | Barna Report: Denominational Decline
  • 1.31.10 | Number of Americans with No Religion is Growing
  • 1.31.10 | Christmas 2009 Gallup Poll: Fewer Americans Define Themselves as Christian
  • 12.29.09 | Pew Report: Americans Mix Faiths
  • 12.22.09 | 2009 In Review: Reflecting on a Barna Report
  • 12.10.09 | Barna: House Churches--An Update and Reflections
  • 12.8.09 | Barna: Changing Attitudes Toward the Bible
  • 12.3.09 | Spiritual Activities for Youth: Barna Summary
  • 10.12.09 | Another Look at U.S. Church Attendance
  • 6.30.09 | Pew Survey Shows Religious Shift
  • 6.13.09 | Barna: New Ways of Experiencing and Expressing Faith in U.S.
  • 3.10.09 | Two Religious Surveys
  • 2.15.09 | Barna: Spiritual Gifts Survey
  • 1.15.09 | Barna: Christianity No Longer Default Religion in the US
  • 12.13.08 | Wuthnow: Church Attendance and Marriage
  • 10.27.08 | Barna: Changing Views of Spirituality
  • 3.17.08 | Changing Religious Affiliations: Results from a Pew Forum Survey
  • 11.20.05 | Barna: How People Choose Churches Today
  • 10.9.03 | Gallup: Are We Spiritual?
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