From the Appostolic Team
Insights, guides, and stories to help your church teach with clarity and confidence.
The Question That Does the Work
A discussion that costs nobody anything hasn't formed anybody. On the difference between a real question and a quiz — and why Jesus asked far more than he ever answered.
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The Story That Slips Past the Guard
How the Teacher Taught — Post 4
The storyteller's failure is almost never craft. It's nerve. Anyone could have told the story about the lamb — the hard part was saying "you are the man" to a king.
The Question That Does the Work
How the Teacher Taught — Post 3
A discussion that costs nobody anything hasn't formed anybody. On the difference between a real question and a quiz — and why Jesus asked far more than he ever answered.
The Expositor
How The Teacher Taught - Post 2
Deep teaching is a genuine gift. Its blind spot is quiet and easy to miss: mistaking your own depth for their formation — walking out full while half the room went hungry.
The Teacher Who Wouldn't Pick A Style
How The Teacher Taught - Post 1
Jesus didn't have a teaching style. He had a range. Here's why your natural way of teaching is both your greatest gift and your biggest blind spot.
Seek the Welfare of the City
How a Character Study on Mordecai Convicted Me About the Town I’ve Been Wanting to Leave
I was testing the platform for bugs when a Mordecai character study surfaced Jeremiah 29:7 — "seek the welfare of the city where I have sent you." My honest posture had been: to heck with this town.
You Don’t Want to Go to Hell, Do You?
What the New Testament Actually Shows Us About How People Came to Jesus — and Why Scaring Them Into It Might Be the Laziest Gospel We’ve Ever Preached
A VBS leader asked little girls, “You don’t want to go to hell, do you?” So I researched how people actually came to Jesus in the New Testament. Not one instance was fear-based.
What Happens When You Ask the Hard Question
On Church Boards, Undershepherds, and the Cost of Caring Enough to Speak Up
The people who care the most about a church are the ones most likely to get hurt - because they're the ones who eventually say something. A healthy church receives hard questions as gifts, not threats
I Didn’t Get Anything Out of Church Today
What If We’ve Been Asking the Wrong Question Every Sunday Morning?
"I didn't get anything out of church today." I said it for years. But it's one of the most self-centered things a believer can say. What if we've been asking the wrong question every Sunday?
The Last Command of Jesus
The Most Under-Preached Words Jesus Ever Spoke — and Why Philippians 2:12 Means Something Different Than You’ve Been Told
Jesus's last command — "love one another as I have loved you" — is the most under-preached instruction in Christianity. And Philippians 2:12? Every word is plural. It was never about you alone.
Deeper Than We Expected
Two Things I Discovered While Building Appostolic That Changed How I Think About What It Can Do
The same architecture that generates a Sunday school lesson can guide seminary-level formation. And when you invite someone into the research, the collaboration itself becomes the discipleship.
Three Sundays Without a Net
What Happens When the Pastor Is Away and Three Different People Fill the Pulpit
The pastor was away for three Sundays. Three men filled in. Three different problems. Theological misalignment, scattered prep, and a Google search sermon. All were predictable and preventable.
The Church We Forgot: Pt 2 - Shared Elders vs. Solo Pastor
How the Early Church’s Model of Shared Leadership Became the Modern Solo-Pastor-as-CEO Model
The New Testament pattern for church leadership is unmistakably plural. So how did a body of elders become a solo pastor carrying everything? The history is clear.