Leadership Starts in the Pasture If I asked you what you did today, what would you say? Maybe it would be something like, “I worked a...

When God looks for leaders, he doesn’t value what we tend to value. In 1 Samuel 16:7 God says, “‘For the LORD sees not as man sees: man...

On the heels of disastrous events, the gospel has unprecedented opportunity. When God has done the work of shaking their foundations,...

I recently finished an excellent book by Navy SEALs Jocko Willink and Leif Babin called Extreme Ownership. The authors asked the...

Wisdom for Your Weekend is your regular installment of what we’ve been reading (and watching) around the web. Presented to you by Chris...

Here at the Summit, we have an audacious goal of planting 1,000 churches by 2050. (By God’s grace, we have already planted 298!) One of...

Wisdom for Your Weekend is your regular installment of what we’ve been reading (and watching) around the web. Presented to you by Chris...

One of the most important concepts in the Christian ministry is the notion of tension. I instinctively resist tension, as do most people....

So I exhort the elders among you, as a fellow elder and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, as well as a partaker in the glory that is...

It’s always a fun and informative exercise to look at the most popular posts on Pastor J.D.’s blog and learn some interesting facts. For...

Wisdom for Your Weekend is your regular installment of what we’ve been reading (and watching) around the web. Presented to you by Chris...

This guest post comes from Mike Passaro, one of the worship leaders at The Summit Church. A few weeks ago, Pastor J.D. posted a helpful...

“Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself for her to make her holy, cleansing her with the washing of...

Around the Summit offices, we often remind ourselves to “Assume the best about others” and “Give the benefit of the doubt wherever we...

We rolled this one out in 2013, shortly after presenting the same material to our Summit staff. I’ve found myself coming back to this...

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...

I recently spent some time with long-time pastor Steve Stroope, who’s been in the ministry now for forty years. We talked a lot about...

The following coincides with a book I am releasing this August, called Gaining by Losing: Why the Future Belongs to Churches that...

Sadly, most of us can all too easily recount stories of pastors who betrayed their congregations, who hurt the very people God had called...

My wife and I have three daughters—aged 11, 9, and 7. (We managed to sneak a little boy in there at the end, but ours is still a house...