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IS EASTER THE BEAUTIFUL LETDOWN? by Trevor DeVage My dad, calling Monday to check up on me and our weekend, offered a word of encouragement. “The Monday after Easter is a beautiful letdown,” he said, and I knew what he meant. After the emotional high of Good Friday and Easter-morning services . . . After […]

THE CHURCH OF THE DO WHAT YOU WANT by Trevor DeVage Almost three decades ago a mission trip with my high school youth group changed my life, but not in a way you might expect. It wasn’t the people we served or the work we accomplished that helped define my path. Instead, it was the […]

4 THOUGHTS THAT GIVE ME PASTOR PARALYSIS by Trevor DeVage Craig Groeschel’s Winning the War in Your Mind has led me to see thoughts I sometimes have that definitely are not good. See below, and I think you’ll find application not only for pastors like me, but every Christian. Lies like these poison leadership and […]

MOVING FROM BITTER TO BETTER by Trevor DeVage Leaders in any organization, but especially in the church, spend so much time in bitterness management. Life Church pastor Craig Groeschel once said the thing he deals with more than anything else as he tries to grow a great church is lawsuits and negative people. Thankfully, he […]

WHY AND HOW YOUR CHURCH CAN AVOID BEING AN INSTITUTION by Trevor DeVage It’s usually sad when a person is institutionalized. When your aging grandmother becomes too confused to take care of herself, her children institutionalize her. When your elderly uncle becomes too weak to live alone, your cousins institutionalize him. When a child with […]

EMBRACING LONELINESS OVER ISOLATION by Trevor DeVage I don’t know about most of you, but the last year of leadership in ministry has had some very lonely moments. For some it has even been isolating. There were moments where it was lonely pre-pandemic, but in the midst of it, it has been even more lonesome […]

WHAT WE NEED MORE THAN ANYTHING IN 2021 by Trevor DeVage Two years ago, I received a Facebook message on Christmas Eve that I’ve been thinking about this week. A member of our church, a young woman who would not live to see the next year, wrote to thank me for our service that night […]

HOW TO BE USED BY GOD By Trevor DeVage One day Jesus drove a demon from a suffering boy after his disciples tried and failed to make that happen. Afterwards they asked him why they couldn’t perform the miracle, and he told them it was because they lacked faith. “Truly I tell you, if you […]

WHY THE CHURCH MUST CANCEL “CANCEL CULTURE” by Trevor DeVage If you’ve written off someone because of one mistake or dumb remark, you’re participating in what has become a growing problem, “cancel culture.” “There is no single accepted definition of cancel culture,” according to Forbes, “but at its worst, it is about unaccountable groups successfully […]

3 REASONS I’M DONE CRITICIZING THE CHURCH by Trevor DeVage In some circles today it’s cool to criticize the church. Search social media and soon you’ll find someone upset because they say the church has failed them. Some have even walked away. In fact, most readers of this blog know at least one person who […]