Patience in the Pasture
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...
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Nov 7, 20223 min read
The Only Leadership Trait You Absolutely Need
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...
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Mar 25, 20202 min read
Love Your Neighbor: Stay at Home
On the heels of disastrous events, the gospel has unprecedented opportunity. When God has done the work of shaking their foundations,...
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Sep 30, 20193 min read
There Are No Bad Teams, Only Bad Leaders
I recently finished an excellent book by Navy SEALs Jocko Willink and Leif Babin called Extreme Ownership. The authors asked the...
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Sep 13, 20192 min read
What Your Politics Do to Your Morals, When Worship Lyrics Miss the Mark, & Leadership Lessons f
Wisdom for Your Weekend is your regular installment of what we’ve been reading (and watching) around the web. Presented to you by Chris...
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Sep 2, 20193 min read
What Is Your Church Willing to Give Up for the King?
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...
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Jul 26, 20192 min read
Purity Culture, Wilderness Prophets, & Why Leaders Need Big Blocks of Time
Wisdom for Your Weekend is your regular installment of what we’ve been reading (and watching) around the web. Presented to you by Chris...
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Jul 11, 20188 min read
11 Tensions to Manage in Ministry
One of the most important concepts in the Christian ministry is the notion of tension. I instinctively resist tension, as do most people....
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May 29, 20186 min read
8 Signs You’re Following the Way of the Dragon Rather Than the Way of the Lamb
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...
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Jan 3, 20184 min read
Our Golden Nuggets of 2017
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...
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Nov 10, 20172 min read
Reformation in the SBC, Leaders and Trash, & the Fragile Generation We’ve Created
Wisdom for Your Weekend is your regular installment of what we’ve been reading (and watching) around the web. Presented to you by Chris...
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Nov 6, 20179 min read
What Every Worship Leader Wishes the Pastor Knew
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...
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Jun 5, 20174 min read
Four Ways Husbands Should Lead
“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...
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Mar 27, 20174 min read
Five Ways to Grow a Culture of Trust
Around the Summit offices, we often remind ourselves to “Assume the best about others” and “Give the benefit of the doubt wherever we...
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Mar 22, 20173 min read
The Quadrant of Fearless Feedback
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...
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Jul 8, 20154 min read
The Church Isn’t a Cruise Ship; It’s an Aircraft Carrier
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...
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Jun 2, 20154 min read
Nine Ways to “Pay” Your Volunteers
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...
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May 18, 20153 min read
The Great Commission Is Completed through Multiplication, Not Addition
The following coincides with a book I am releasing this August, called Gaining by Losing: Why the Future Belongs to Churches that...
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Apr 15, 20154 min read
Four Signs That Ministry Has Become All About YOU
Sadly, most of us can all too easily recount stories of pastors who betrayed their congregations, who hurt the very people God had called...
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Apr 8, 20154 min read
The Church Needs More Deborahs
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...
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