“Religion that is pure and undefiled before God, the Father, is this: to visit orphans and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained from the world.”
–James 1:27
The country of India has more undernourished children (51 million) than the entire continent of Africa (47 million), according to UNICEF. Fifty percent of the children [...]

The top “Multiplying Church” in America for 2007, according to Outreach magazine, was Redeemer Presbyterian Church in New York City. Second on the list was Mars Hill Church in Seattle. That gave me an idea. What if those two churches and their church-planting organizations banded together to put on a church-planting conference in a world-class [...]

Some of the most meaningful, closest relationships I’ve ever had in my life have been with my coaches.
At age eighteen, Fred Trujillo was a new coach when he drove up in his El Camino at Hellbeck Park to coach the 3rd and 4th grade Stallions. He did it to fulfill a college gym credit, but [...]

Mars Hill Church donates 10 percent of its general income to the Acts 29 Network, a church-planting organization based out of Mars Hill. I serve as its director and as a pastor at Mars Hill Church. Acts 29 has over 120 member churches in North America, and seven internationally. Acts 29 seeks to start church-planting [...]

My wife and I were born and raised in Pueblo (PWEH-blow), Colorado–the Pittsburgh of the West, because it was home of one the largest steel mills in the United States; my dad worked there for forty-six years, until he was sixty-eight years old. He used to tell me that the mill was where nails were [...]