Author: Justin N. Poythress

  • Consumer Church

    September 8, 2022
    Despite our temptation to draw broad stroke, short-cut evaluations of a church’s faithfulness to Christ based on its forms of…
  • Fear the Lord to start the game

    August 25, 2022
    Fear of the Lord means starting everything with God. It means recognizing God is the central reality in the universe,…
  • Great people start with service

    August 11, 2022
    In short, it is good to hold the highest view and vision of your spouse, but no man is married…
  • We’ve all got a boss

    August 2, 2022
    Org charts and hierarchical structures matter, and the interplay of those relationships are fragile, precious, and borderline sacred, even if…
  • Should we stop people from saying mean things?

    July 14, 2022
    The real issue is that people are mean, and they say mean things, and that hurts.
  • How to develop new leaders: The Freedom to Fail

    June 30, 2022
    If you hand over your car keys to your sixteen year old, you can pretty well guarantee the car is…
  • When you argue with a fool, you are wasting your time

    June 16, 2022
    A fool is always right in his own eyes. He is not interested in learning something new. He is not…
  • 1 Step Evangelism

    June 2, 2022
    It’s not that evangelism training is useless, it’s just that graduating from the latest training program can be a bit…
  • Prayer Shaming and Prayer’s Power

    May 19, 2022
    Prayers are not the same as thoughts. Prayer is petitioning an Almighty God, through the blood and mediation of Christ,…
  • Marginalized Oppressors

    May 5, 2022
    Don’t assume, because you have experienced poverty or marginalization of some sort, that you are automatically above inflicting the same…