Politics, Ethics, and the Voice of the Church: If Not Us, then Who?

Politics, Ethics, and the Voice of the Church: If Not Us, then Who?

by | Jan 20, 2026

I first published this blog in 2018 after the horrific high school shooting in Parkland, Florida. I asked at the time, “Can churches be involved in the most volatile issues of our day?” And my answer then, and now as we deal with violence of a different sort, is that if the church can’t or won’t speak out against cruelty and oppression, then what hope is there for a voice of conscience in our world?

Here’s the trouble, though.  When we try to speak to wrenching issues from a political perspective, we get caught in either/or choices.  Our two-party political system creates a win-lose situation with no room for nuanced disagreement. Either/or choices are destined to polarize. Churches are reluctant to get involved. I get it. I’d like to offer an alternative that every church can use.

 

The Ethical Position

Thankfully, speaking from a political perspective is not the church’s only choice. Churches can and should speak from an ethical perspective. Webster defines ethics as “moral principles that govern a person’s behavior or the conducting of an activity.” For the church, ethics are the living out of our faith in a world in which choices are rarely black and white.

When churches speak from an ethical position, we are able to discern and articulate truths that go deeper than the artificial either/or choices created by our two-party system. Adopting an ethical perspective means we consider how core values of the Gospels and Jesus’ teachings impact public policy. Viewing current events through an ethical lens also empowers us to address how the gifts and potentials of human life impact our responsibility to the common good. Finally, because we believe in a hopeful future for all of God’s creation, an ethical perspective enables us to react not just to what is, but to powerfully envision what could be.

 

The Voice of the Church

In the United Methodist Church, members take a vow to resist evil and injustice in whatever forms they present themselves. That’s as clear a call for an ethical response to current events as I’ve ever heard.

Thankfully, as violence has erupted on our city streets, we’ve seen many examples of clergy of all faiths standing up to protect neighbors, friends, and strangers against unlawful oppression. Some literally risking their own lives and safety.

There are multiple ways we can take action and truly be the voice of the church for justice. Establish new ministries and new policies. Pray new prayers. Preach new sermons. Encourage new conversations.  Call the powers that be. Write letters. Speak up. Get together with other like-minded folks. March. Cry. Shout. Pray. The actions you take will be dependent on your setting and circumstances. The main thing is to act.

 

If not us, then who?

It’s up to us, as clergy leaders, to take the lead. Join me and take that first step to active renewal by registering for my free online seminar, “How Christian Ministries are Achieving Success“. You’ll learn concrete ways that your leadership can make a real difference in your community, our country, and the world.

 

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A Force to Be Reckoned With: Overcoming the Superhero Myth

A Force to Be Reckoned With: Overcoming the Superhero Myth

by | Dec 19, 2025

In my last post, I invited you to step out of the boat and practice “Water Walking Faith.” Yet, even with the best intentions, you might still feel small when looking at the problems you face. As we approach Epiphany, the season of light, I promise you this: You don’t need to wait for a savior to swoop in and fix the world. When you embrace the faith of Jesus, you realize that you are the force to be reckoned with.

It is increasingly hard to find a good movie to watch these days without stumbling into a superhero flick or a horror film. I’ve often wondered why these genres are so popular. I think it’s because people are living in fear about what’s coming next. Evil seems to be on the loose, and it’s almost become natural to be suspicious. Deep down are feelings of helplessness and a secret hope that someone else—a superhero, a politician, another leader, God—will fly in with incredible strength to vanquish the evil and save the day.

 

The Myth of the Superhero

The myth is that you are helpless in the face of the world’s chaos. You might believe the lie that you are just an extra in the movie of life, waiting for the main character to arrive. This leads to a passive spirituality where you pray for God to fix things while you sit on the sidelines.

The bad news? No comic book superheroes are coming to save us.

The good news? You come from a long line of miracle workers. You are the hero the world needs.

 

Help Me Overcome My Unbelief

Consider the father in Mark 9 who brought his possessed son to Jesus. He said to Jesus, “If you can do anything, take pity on us.” Jesus threw the ball right back to him: “If you can? Everything is possible for one who believes.”

The father’s response is one of the most honest prayers in scripture: “I do believe; help me overcome my unbelief!”

Like that father, you might be standing in the middle of a mess—a sick child, a polarized community, economic instability—feeling a mix of faith and doubt. You want to believe change is possible, but you are afraid to hope. Jesus didn’t wait for the father to have perfect faith; he worked with the faith the father had. He healed the boy, proving that your agency, even when mixed with doubt, is powerful when you bring it to God.

 

A Force to Be Reckoned With

As an apostle, you are a spiritual superhero. Jesus didn’t align fully with the political parties of his day (Sadducees, Pharisees, Zealots). He kept his own counsel and preached a vision that transcended party lines.

  • Test Your Faith: You need to check your “Water Walking Faith.” Do you believe your life has a unique purpose? Do you believe in a miracle mindset? Do you believe like Jesus?
  • The Shift: Alice Walker wrote, “We are the ones we have been waiting for.” When you stop looking for a hero and start looking within at your Divine Partnership, you activate your agency. You stop complaining about how bad things are and start carrying the message of the Kingdom.

 

Dos and Don’ts

  • Do confess your doubt like the father in Mark 9 (“I believe; help my unbelief”) rather than pretending your doubt doesn’t exist.
  • Do realize that you are the plan. God is waiting on you to act.
  • Do transcend political polarization by focusing on the Kingdom vision, just as Jesus did.
  • Don’t wait for a superhero or a politician to save the world; that is a recipe for despair.
  • Don’t let the horror movies of the nightly news convince you that evil has won.
  • Don’t be a “faithless” generation; be the one who believes.

 

Next Steps/Takeaways

You are one of the spiritual superheroes Jesus is calling on. This Epiphany, don’t just look for the light—be the light.

Answer the Call: Stop waiting. Step into your spiritual power.

Practice: Read this statement aloud today: “Jesus invites me to believe that my life has a unique and irreplaceable purpose. I matter.”

To solidify this transformation and step into your role as a miracle-maker for the New Year, register now for Epiphany: Manifesting the Miraculous. We will spend our time together unlocking the spiritual resources deep inside you, so you can go back out into the world and move mountains.

 

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A Force to Be Reckoned With: Overcoming the Superhero Myth

Stepping Out of the Boat: Cultivating Water Walking Faith

by | Dec 10, 2025

In previous weeks, I challenged you to believe your prayers have power and to stand firm in your Divine Partnership. Now, as the calendar turns toward the New Year and the season of Epiphany, it is time to put those internal shifts into radical external action. The world feels increasingly like a storm-tossed sea, and it’s tempting to hunker down. You might feel safer staying in the “boat”, the familiar, the comfortable, the status quo. You might think that staying quiet and keeping your head down is the best way to survive the waves. But deep down, you know that clinging to safety is not the same as living with purpose. The problem isn’t the storm; the problem is the fear that keeps you paralyzed within it.

I promise you that if you are willing to shift from merely believing in Jesus to believing like Jesus, you can transcend the “politics of grievance” and navigate the storms of this life with a power you didn’t know you had.

 

The Myth that Believing in Jesus is Enough

A common myth is that “faith” just means intellectually agreeing that Jesus is the Son of God. You might think, “I believe in Jesus, so I’m good.” But Jesus calls you to more than just spectator faith. He doesn’t just want you to watch him walk on water and applaud; he wants you to get out of the boat and do it, too. Believing in Jesus might keep you safe in the pew; believing like Jesus gives you strength to step out onto the waves.

 

Water Walking Faith

Reflect on the well-known story of Peter in Matthew 14. The disciples are in a boat, terrified by the wind and waves. Jesus walks out to them on the water. When Peter realizes it’s Jesus, he asks to join him. Jesus says, “Come.”

And then Peter actually does it. He swings his leg over the side, puts his feet on the water, and walks. But then, he sees the wind. He loses focus, gets scared, and starts to sink. Jesus catches him, but he asks, “You of little faith, why did you doubt?”

I don’t think Peter doubted Jesus. I think Peter doubted himself and his ability to believe and act like Jesus. He got into his head, felt the pull of gravity (the way things “usually” work), and pushed the miracle away. Like Peter, you have moments of water walking faith, but when the winds of life kick up, you might let doubt sink you back into the ordinary.

 

Stepping Out of the Boat into the Impossible

To move toward Epiphany—the manifestation of the divine—you need to adopt a “Growth Mindset” regarding your faith.

  • Faith of Jesus: This is the upgrade. It means tapping into the same source of power Jesus did. It requires you to see the world through Jesus’ eyes.
  • The Lesson of Sinking: It’s important to remember that sinking isn’t failure; it’s part of the learning process. Even when Peter sank, he was still the only one brave enough to get out of the boat.
  • Epiphany is Action: Epiphany isn’t just a date on the calendar; it is a call to reveal God’s light in the world. You cannot do that while hiding in the boat. You must be willing to step out into the “impossible.”

 

Next Steps/Takeaways

God is asking if you are ready to advance from disciple to apostle. You are being invited to resist evil, injustice, and oppression not by complaining, but by rising above the waves with water walking faith.

Answer the Call: Don’t just watch Jesus work. Ask him to call you out onto the water. And then take the action you are called to with the same faith of Jesus.

Practice: This week, identify one area of your life where you are “staying in the boat” out of fear. Take one small, concrete step onto the water.

To fully activate this “Water Walking Faith” and start your New Year with power, I invite you to join me at my upcoming retreat: Epiphany: Manifesting the Miraculous. It’s time to leave the safety of the shore and discover what you are truly capable of.

 

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When the Real Crisis Isn’t Out There—It’s In The Church

When the Real Crisis Isn’t Out There—It’s In The Church

by | May 14, 2025

When I gathered with a group of pastors this week on Zoom, I expected us to talk about political turmoil and economic uncertainty. After all, it’s what’s on everyone’s mind. But that’s not what these leaders were most concerned about.

What they were really wrestling with was something closer to home: a growing fear that their churches aren’t strong enough to deal with the challenges ahead. And worse, that there’s nothing they can do about it. So what happens when the real crisis isn’t out there, it’s in the church?

That shift changes everything.

 

The Hidden Crisis in Church Leadership Today: Feeling Spiritually Stuck

One pastor shared how her new church had been without a permanent leader for over 17 months. In that time, it lost its sense of mission. People were showing up, but they didn’t know why anymore. The mission statement wasn’t posted anywhere and, frankly, no one could recall what it might have said.

Another pastor is serving a growing church. That should be good news, right? But with growth has come a wave of resistance. Some members are now trying to micromanage the process, gossiping and backbiting in the midst of positive change.

Another noted that success itself can be unsettling. As new people join, older members withdraw. It’s as if the very progress leaders are praying for ends up triggering anxiety in the system.

It was clear to me that these pastors weren’t lacking vision or faith. They were facing the emotional and spiritual strain of trying to lead people who feel tired, stuck, or quietly resigned. And they were wondering, “Is bold leadership even possible anymore?”

 

Strengthening the Core: What Actually Makes a Church Resilient

That question led us back to the foundation: What makes a church strong in the first place?

Together we named some essentials—mission, vision, values, life-giving ministries, authentic relationships, and grounded spiritual practices. These aren’t fancy strategies. They’re the deep, steady anchors of a church’s identity.

One pastor, new to her appointment, said she’s committed to helping the church move forward even if progress is slow. That willingness to lead patiently and persistently resonated throughout the group. In a world demanding instant results, she modeled a different kind of leadership—one rooted in hope, not hurry.

We also revisited what makes each congregation unique. Churches highlighted a range of strengths: neighboring well, making disciples, loving their communities, nurturing intercessory prayer teams, and creating space for new expressions of faith to emerge.

These aren’t add-ons. They are the DNA of vibrant ministry. And they deserve to be named, celebrated, and integrated into every part of church life.

 

From Fear to Hope: How Churches Are Finding a Way Forward

As our time together deepened, we began naming not just challenges but assets. We saw glimpses of transformation already underway:

  • A shift from fear to hope.
  • A clearer understanding of each congregation’s unique context.
  • A willingness to create space for new ministries and new leaders to emerge.

We asked how to make these assets more than just momentary wins. How do they become a lasting part of a church’s DNA?

The answer lies in visibility and intentionality. That means staying connected—not just on Sunday mornings, but through newsletters, social media, neighborhood presence, and regular pastoral outreach. It means resisting the temptation to shrink back in the face of fear and instead choosing to lead with boldness and presence.

Celebration Is More Than a Party—It’s a Leadership Strategy

One of the most powerful moments in our session came when we turned to a surprising topic: celebration.

It’s easy to overlook. But celebration is one of the most important tools a leader has. It’s how we mark growth, affirm calling, and re-energize tired hearts. In seasons of struggle, celebration becomes a spiritual practice of resistance against despair.

We named personal and collective wins—becoming more proactive, trying new technologies, overcoming fear of rejection, accepting God’s approval, and remembering our worth as leaders. As we did, the tone of the entire session lifted. The energy shifted. Hope resurfaced.

Celebration reminded us that we’re not starting from scratch. God is already moving. We just have to notice.

 

What If Your Church Is Already Strong Enough?

Here’s what I want to leave you with: The fear that your church isn’t strong enough is understandable. But fears aren’t facts. The Church has always found its way through hard times—not because of perfect plans, but because of faithful leaders who showed up, got honest, and stayed the course.

Your leadership matters. Your voice matters. And yes, your church can be strong enough—not by avoiding crisis, but by rising to meet it.

We’re in a season that calls for new kinds of ministry success—measured not just by numbers, but by spiritual resilience, courageous vision, and faithful next steps.

 

Free Seminar: How Christian Ministries Are Achieving Success

If this resonates with you, I invite you to go deeper. Join me for an upcoming interactive online seminar: “How Christian Ministries Are Achieving Success.”

We’ll explore what’s working right now in real churches—and how you can lead with strength and clarity, even in uncertain times. You’ll leave with practical tools, fresh insight, and the encouragement you need to keep going.

 

 

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Courageous Leadership: Lent Practices for Church Leaders

Courageous Leadership: Lent Practices for Church Leaders

by | Mar 11, 2025

Friends, it’s hard to believe that just five years ago, the World Health Organization declared a global pandemic. And today, the complexities of our world continue to challenge us. It’s a time that calls for courageous church leadership, and that’s precisely what Lent invites us to embrace.

I’ve spent years helping churches thrive by creating a culture of renewal. I believe Lent isn’t just about somber reflection. It’s a powerful opportunity to lean into the suffering of Jesus as he walked toward the cross. And while we know the glorious end of the story – the resurrection – it’s crucial that we sit with the raw, real challenges Jesus faced. Because, let’s be honest, we’re all facing significant challenges right now. Lent couldn’t be more timely.

The traditional Lenten disciplines – prayer, fasting, and almsgiving – aren’t dusty relics. They’re dynamic tools for effective leadership. Let’s explore how we can use these Lent spiritual disciplines to navigate these turbulent times with grace and strength.

Prayer: Cultivating Vision and Bold Action

Prayer, in my experience, isn’t passive. It’s the engine of vision and bold action. It’s about connecting with God, yes, but it’s also about tuning into the divine whisper that guides our next steps.

During Lent, let’s commit to a deeper level of prayer for church leaders. This means:

  • Practicing Gratitude: Even amidst the chaos, let’s intentionally give thanks. Gratitude fuels our resilience.
  • Offering Ourselves: Daily, let’s surrender our agendas to God, asking for the wisdom and strength to lead with purpose.
  • Interceding for Others: Let’s lift up our communities, our nations, and our world in prayer. Let’s pray specifically for those who are suffering.

But remember, prayer isn’t just about talking to God. It’s about listening for God. This is where true leadership emerges. Pay attention to those nudges, those insights, those “aha” moments that come during prayer. They are often God’s call to action.

For Church Leaders:

  • Foster a Culture of Listening Prayer: Encourage your teams to practice listening prayer, not just petitioning. Create space for shared discernment.
  • Use Prayer for Strategic Planning: Don’t just pray for comfort. Pray for clarity, for vision, for innovative solutions to the challenges your church faces.
  • Teach Practical Prayer Skills: Offer workshops or resources on prayer practices that empower your people to connect with God in meaningful ways. Think Lectio Divina, Ignatian spirituality, or centering prayer.
  • Create Sacred Space for Lament: Acknowledge the grief and pain that people are carrying. Create space in worship and small groups for lament, for honest expression of sorrow.

Fasting: Disrupting the Status Quo and Embracing Innovation

Fasting isn’t just about giving up chocolate. It’s about disrupting the status quo. It’s about creating space for fresh perspectives and innovative approaches to church revitalization.

This Lent, I challenge you to consider fasting from:

  • Complacency: Are you settling for “good enough”? Fast from the fear of change.
  • Apathy: Fast from the temptation to disengage from the world’s problems.
  • Mindless Consumption: Fast from the endless scroll, the constant barrage of information that distracts us from what truly matters.

Fasting, in this context, is about creating space for clarity, for focus, for the kind of disruptive thinking that can revitalize our churches.

For Church Leaders:

  • Lead with Courageous Vulnerability: Share your own fasting journey with your congregation. Let them see that you’re willing to be challenged and transformed.
  • Encourage Innovative Fasting: Don’t just suggest traditional fasts. Invite your people to fast from things that hinder their creativity and engagement.
  • Use Fasting to Fuel Innovation: Before a brainstorming session, have your team engage in a brief period of fasting and prayer. See how it sharpens their focus.
  • Challenge the “Way We’ve Always Done It”: Use Lent as a time to question assumptions and explore new ways of being the church.

 

Almsgiving: Mobilizing Generosity for Maximum Impact

Almsgiving isn’t just about writing a check. It’s about mobilizing generosity for maximum impact. It’s about channeling our resources – our time, our talents, our finances – to make a real difference in the world.

This Lent let’s move beyond transactional giving and embrace transformational giving. Let’s ask:

  • Where can our generosity have the greatest impact?
  • How can we empower others to thrive?
  • How can we be agents of justice and reconciliation?

Almsgiving, in this sense, is about strategic investment, about building a world where God’s love is tangible and transformative.

For Church Leaders:

  • Teach Generosity as a Spiritual Practice: Help your congregation understand that giving is an act of worship, a way to participate in God’s work.
  • Partner Strategically: Don’t just support any cause. Identify organizations that align with your church’s values and have a proven track record of impact.
  • Empower Your People to Serve: Create opportunities for your congregation to volunteer their time and talents. Connect them with meaningful service projects.
  • Advocate for Systemic Change: Encourage your congregation to be informed and engaged citizens, advocating for policies that promote justice and equity.

Lent: A Call to Courageous Leadership

Friends, Lent is a call to courageous leadership. It’s a time to embrace the disciplines of prayer, fasting, and almsgiving in ways that empower us to be bold, innovative, and impactful.

As church leaders, we have the privilege and responsibility to guide our congregations through this season. Let’s lead with vision, with courage, and with a deep commitment to making a difference in the world. Let’s use this Lent to equip our communities to be agents of hope, transformation, and God’s unwavering love.

Ready to lead your church with more courage and vision? Take this opportunity to expand on the spiritual strengths you are building by scheduling a 45-minute Discovery Session with me. Or, be my guest at our free seminar How Christian Ministries are Achieving Success.

 

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Believe in Your Ability to Rise Again: 3 Ways to Believe Like Jesus

Believe in Your Ability to Rise Again: 3 Ways to Believe Like Jesus

by | Feb 19, 2025

We are facing tough times in the world around us. Mainline churches are under attack for uplifting the mercy of Christ. The democracy as we know it is being changed from the inside out by unelected officials. The mission field is rapidly expanding as government workers are being summarily laid off or let go. The separation of church and state seems to have vanished as ICE and TSA officials enter churches at will to detain undocumented workers. The work of politics has positioned itself squarely in the realm of ethics.

As Christian leaders, we are called to notice, reflect on, and respond to matters of ethics. In fact, originally the separation of church and state was developed just so that churches would not feel constrained to speak to issues of the day.

I am writing to encourage you to hold on to your high calling. Not only that, as many values we have held dear seem to tumble down around us, I want you to believe in your ability to rise again. And to bring others along with you.

Resurrection is one of the key tenets of the Christian path. Not only did Jesus rise from the dead, he raised others as well. And he believes that we can rise too. Whether you take resurrection to be a literal or metaphorical reality, rising from the dead speaks to the buoyancy of both the human spirit and the divine spirit within us.

When it comes to participating in our own resurrection, we have much to learn from Jesus. Faced with the worst of dead-end circumstances—an unjust death by crucifixion— Jesus feels dread and moves forward anyway. Jesus believes in the reality of resurrection and puts that belief ahead of his fears. It’s not that he discounts the pain that awaits him. He doesn’t. Instead, he chooses to trust God in the worst moments of his life.

 

3 Ways to Believe Like Jesus

As you trust in your ability to rise, and to bring others along with you, here are 3 lessons we can learn from Jesus about how to believe in resurrection.

  1. Stay aware. Jesus stayed aware of what was happening around him and the implications of the decisions being made about his life. He didn’t bury his head in the sand, simply hoping for resurrection.

From Jesus we learn that as painful as times may be, it’s important to stay aware. So many people I know are opting out of watching the news, or staying informed because it is too depressing. Or too anguishing. While it’s important to keep one’s heart lifted, it is equally important to keep one’s feet firmly planted in the reality of changes taking place around us. Only in this way can you effectively speak, lead and minister to the people around you, and anticipate needs to be met. You can’t ignore the present if you are planning on resurrection.

 

  1. Trust the Guidance of God and the Prompting of the Holy Spirit. Jesus prayed during the worst time of his life. Rather than being frozen in fear, he actively sought out the wisdom of God.

From Jesus we learn to believe in the potent power of prayer. During these days of a rapidly changing landscape in our country, and around the world, pause to tune in to the guidance of God, the prompting of the Holy Spirit, and the needs of your own soul. Divine guidance is what we most need right now.

 

  1. Activate the ministries of the church. Before Jesus faced crucifixion, he conscientiously trained the Twelve to carry on his ministries: healing the sick, proclaiming the Kingdom, and casting out demons. First trained as disciples, they were ready to be sent out as apostles to carry on Jesus’ mission.

From Jesus we learn to believe in the future. We must train people to be ready for ministry. Now is the time to activate the ministries of the church—both comfort and challenge ministries. Comfort ministries offer comfort to those in need. The need for basic human dignities such as food and housing as well as hope and support is growing.  Challenge ministries challenge the root causes of hunger, homelessness, etc. Challenge ministries in these days may look like calling on your government representatives to push back against immoral or unjust or illegal executive orders. Or alerting undocumented workers how to avoid illegal detainment and deportation.

Sometimes, it seems that life hands us dead ends. Bleakness is all that lies before us. While things are bound to be better in heaven, what about life now? How are we to go on in situations like these?

 

A Bonus Lesson  Find joy and gratitude. Remember that in God’s world, there are no dead ends. New life always comes. Be ready for it by finding joy and gratitude in each day. Let your light shine.

Yes, resurrection can seem elusive when times are tough, and fear has a sort of irresistible allure. It sometimes seems a safer bet to catastrophize, to believe in a fearful outcome, than to place our faith in a positive future.

 

Put your Belief in Action

Beliefs shape your thoughts; thoughts fuel your actions; actions demonstrate your faith, and your faith reinforces your beliefs. So, as you begin to believe like Jesus, you will find that you are now able to think new thoughts, take new actions, and develop new faith. Mountains and mulberry trees start to move. The people around you begin to respond in new ways. And the world becomes a brighter place.

  • Believe: Believe in the reality of resurrection by placing more faith in God’s positive future than in your fear. If you have faith in the possibilities of the future, you don’t need evidence that good things will happen. Your choice to believe like Jesus is all the proof you need.

 

  • Answer the Call: Answer the call of possibility, of belief in resurrection. That doesn’t mean you won’t have doubts from time to time, or that you won’t have fears. As Rooster Cogburn in the 1969 movie True Grit, John Wayne famously said, “Courage is being scared to death and saddling up anyway.” That’s as good a mantra for an apostle as any. Courage is being scared to death and having the faith of Jesus anyway. Don’t pretend you have no fear, but turn that fear around. Don’t let it shut you down. Instead, use it as fuel.

 

  • Practice: A friend of mine used to say, “It ain’t over till it’s over, and if it ain’t good, then it ain’t over.” Develop the practice of looking for the good in each situation. Amplify it. Write about it. Talk about it. Lift it up. Rename your problems as opportunities and act as such. I don’t want to make light of it, but Jesus can see beyond the horror of crucifixion to the good that lay beyond it. He isn’t naïve, nor does he ask us to discount our own pain. Rather, Jesus invites us to see the good that comes out of even the worst of circumstances, like the deep family connections that have resulted from my mother’s ALS.

 

Believe In Your Ability to Rise Again

If you are looking for new ways to embrace the power of resurrection and the faith of Jesus in your ministry and those around you, I invite you to join me for RISE: 40 Days to Spiritual Transformation.

I created this course for leaders like you to embark on a transformative journey based on my powerful new book, Believe Like Jesus: Rising from Faith in Jesus to the Faith of Jesus. This immersive online experience will guide you in awakening the divine potential within, empowering you to live with the same unwavering faith and miraculous power that Jesus embodied.

Throughout six dynamic sessions, you will explore core principles such as spiritual authority, the power of prayer, divine purpose, resilience, and co-creating miracles with God. You’ll gain practical tools to apply these transformative teachings to your spiritual growth and daily life in these challenging times.

The first session is Tuesday, March 4, 2025 and we will meet weekly until Tuesday, April 8, 2025 from 6:30 – 7:45pm Central Time. Single and Group registration options are available. This could be the turning point you’ve been seeking, so register today!

 

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