Merry Christmas! I hope that many of you were able to make it to Christmas at DPAC—and what’s more, that you brought some guests with...

The Southern Baptist Convention’s 2017 Annual Meeting is in the books. As I mentioned earlier this week, I was honored and excited to be...

In 2005, almost by accident, The Summit Church moved to a multi-site strategy. We made the move because our worship services were full,...

This guest post is brought to you by Jason Gaston, our Family Ministries Pastor. Hardly anyone embodies the passion of “seeking the 1”...

The narrative our culture puts forward regarding homosexuality is that we have only two options—affirmation or alienation. Sadly, the...

The past few years have been challenging for many Baptist churches. Across the Southern Baptist Convention as a whole, we’ve seen the...

Charles Spurgeon has always been a preaching hero of mine. He preached deep, doctrinal sermons, and reached people for Jesus in crazy big...

Remember the old television show, The Invisible Man? When someone wanted to make the Invisible Man visible, they would pour paint on him....

Healthy things tend to grow, so it’s hard to regard a church that is not growing evangelistically as healthy, regardless of whatever else...

The following post is from Sarah Short, inspired by my message in Carols last weekend. It usually happens after hearing a powerful story...

The following is an excerpt from Gaining by Losing: Why the Future Belongs to Churches that Send. The book comes out July 28, but if you...

This post coincides with a book I’m releasing in August, called Gaining by Losing: Why the Future Belongs to Churches that Send. Gaining...

“Follow me,” Jesus said, “and I will make you fishers of men.” It is tragically easy for those of us in ministry to forget this, to get...

When we think of a traveling preacher addressing a crowd, most of us conjure up an image like UNC’s (in)famous Pit Preacher. He stands up...

Acts 16 contains the stories of three people who were unlikely candidates for the growing Christian movement. There must have been dozens...

The great rain was given in answer to Elijah’s prayers; but not even then the first time he prayed, and we must pray again, and again,...

There are many non-believing people in our community who think of themselves as religious and are open to having spiritual conversations....

Most of us would probably like to be bolder. We read the biblical stories of David and Goliath, or of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, or...

Whenever I read the gospel presentations in the book of Acts, I am struck by four elements of the apostles’ witness—boldness, humility,...

I got this email today from one of our members. It is always encouraging for me to hear (specifically) how God uses my messages in the...