The Cluster Concept

  By Steve Cordle This weekend is our church’s annual “ServeFest”. Many of our groups will be out in the community serving unchurch people in practical ways: from painting their homes, to doing repairs, to servant-evangelism projects like passing out...

It’s Application that Counts

By Steve Cordle   Recently my wife and I were blessed to be able to attend a marriage seminar sponsored by a national ministry. (If you haven’t gone to one, do yourself a favor and go; you deserve it!) For two and a half days we took in high-quality teaching...

Mobilizing Blessing

  By Steve Cordle Often, when I see a picture of a cell group, it is a circle of people in a living room. And, appropriately, that is what our groups look like much of the time. But in order for our groups to be true Kingdom outposts, they also need to break out of...

On Guard

By Steve Cordle It was a tearful scene. The Apostle Paul was saying good-bye to the leaders of the church in Ephesus, and everyone was quite emotional. (Acts 20) Like a parent dropping off a child at college for the first time, Paul was excited and confident in the...

Breakfast of Champions

By Steve Cordle My wife, Linda, mentors some young mothers of pre-schoolers. This week one of the moms asked Linda to recommend a devotional book for women/moms she could use that would help her grow, since she’s just starting out and she’s had virtually...