Generosity as Spiritual Warfare

Hands breaking apart bread to share

Giving was not where it needed to be. This summer, the Vineyard Community Church of Overland Park, Kansas found itself in a financial bind. The incoming lead pastor, Mark Stephenson, was fretting over the numbers every day. In May, in June, and then into July, the finances kept getting worse. Mark felt like he was […]

When the Spirit Fell on the Football Team

On a warm Friday afternoon last fall, a line of high school football players wearing red-and-white uniforms sat shoulder-to-boxy-shoulder in the front row of a small church. Although they sported the same jerseys, each had a personal reason for finding themselves here, out of their usual habitat. One teen was living in a hotel, another […]

More Than We Imagine: Business as Kingdom Work

In 2015, I had the privilege of taking a short-term mission trip to Cebu, Philippines. On that trip, I invited my friend, Paul, a successful business developer, to join me. We visited a church community that was planted out of Jackie Pullinger’s ministry in Hong Kong—a ministry known for reaching people trapped in drug addiction […]