Firemen are awesome first-responders. They run toward the action. And when they arrive, they know what to do and how to do it. Here are...

A family friend is third generation Hong Kong Chinese. She is as American as my daughter. Although her race is Chinese-American, I would...

It used to be that if the International Mission Board had one missionary unit enter a country, then the whole country was colored in on...

Preventing embezzlement starts with the pastor. Yes, that’s a little extreme, but pastors are the leaders that bring change. They are the...

After living in nine cities, I found that Richmond, Va., had the best city planning by far. Before a new neighborhood or apartment...

Way back in the 1980s, the IMB gave each missionary a quota of how many gospel tracts they needed to distribute each month. And by the...

If we’re making disciples like Jesus did, then there’s a different paradigm at work. It all starts with you, the leader as you gather...

Running backs in football have an amazing knack for finding a hole in the line just wide enough to sprint through. And once they pop...

Community engagement is our theme this year. In order to be intentional, it often requires that we learn from our history in order to...

Years ago I subscribed to a magazine called Mental Floss. Today it is an online publication. As I was looking through it, I was astounded...

This is a call for CABA church leaders to re-think their community as a mission field. Our theme for this coming year starting next month...

How people learn is important. How they progress toward belief and action is more important. A white-haired man was introduced to me...

Jesus advised a man to “count the cost” before following Him. The WIGtake question is “ W hat’s I t G onna take to reach Cincinnati with...

There’s a joke going around that when a person was offering medical advice, he said that he wasn’t a doctor, but had played one on TV. A...

Did you know that CABA’s church members are only 2.6% of all evangelicals in the Cincinnati Area? Evangelicals are defined by the...

Jesus told His followers that the Holy Spirit would give them power to be His witnesses here, there, and everywhere (Acts 1:8). Here are...

Imagine you lived back in July 1881. A fire in a toy factory almost burned Cincinnati to the ground. Factories that were fire traps...

What if your church was known as a leadership factory? Is it possible to “grow your own” leaders? The idea is to start with just one...

Over the past eight years, I have met virtually every pastor in CABA and listened closely to them. My heart often breaks as I hear...

After school, the neighborhood boys would play football. As the quarterback, I’d send a neighbor kid down the field with the command, “Go...