My first year as a Chrisitian was spent at the Teen Challenge Training Center in Rehrersburg, Pennsylvania in the middle of farm and dairy country. I worked with the dairy cows. Each morning before dawn we’d herd them into the milking parlor, but first we’d...

Ministry starts with God's call. Mike talks about how young leaders can discover and explore their calling. ...

“Boundaries are meant to be broken, boundaries are meant to be pushed.” This sounds very daring and inspiring. Very American. But is it true? 5 What, after all, is Apollos? And what is Paul? Only servants, through whom you came to believe—as the Lord has assigned to...

If you’re a leader stress comes with the territory. I remember a time I was so used to pressure that I treated it as if it was my normal state of being not realizing just how much it was messing with my ability to lead....

This is turning out to be one of the most momentous seasons of my life. Last November I embarked on what Richard Rohr calls a “further journey”. After thirty-eight years I stepped away from pastoring a local church to begin a new ministry career that’s...

When did the world change? Even as a former Catholic-turned-pagan in the drugged-out 60’s I had a respect for the Bible. I really didn’t know why I just did and I wasn’t alone. It seemed everyone did. I remember a time when that beloved children’s...

Before the Vineyard I had never heard the term “ministry time” used. I was familiar with altar calls and how they worked but ministry time was something new to me. I remember the first time I heard John Wimber say, “Now we’re gonna have clinic...

I’m probably not the first person you should go to for advise on preaching. I’m not what you would call a maestro in the pulpit. I’m never going to be mistaken for one of those outstanding and rare pulpiteers that make what I now know...