The Enabler: Carl’s Ministry Blog

We have opened up a new catetgory on the main menu on prayer. Lots of good stuff there. The city-reaching stuff is still there under the church. Enjoy! Within the next few days, we’ll add more to the prayer resources.

I like to talk about change, and during the next few months you will see some changes here I think you’ll like. Here are some of these you can expect to see:

Main menu changes to include The Journey, Prayer, Healing…
Better usability, such as interactive buttons.
The addition of professional graphics
The updating of resources
Additional cool content from […]

On December 4 I had the privilege of sitting in a conference with Tom White and George Otis as they shared about their perception of what God is doing today. The place where we met was a Rodeway Inn, and functions to the world as a part of that larger chain. In reality, it’s a […]

Greece, if you remember, had a true democracy. In fact, you were required to vote. What happened in Greece? Why did their democracy fail? (Hey teachers! This is a good question for your students!)
The problem is that democreacy, wherever it exists, is a fragile thing. It’s easy to lose it. In Greece, very corrupt […]

From my friend Sandra Hampe:
If you did not have an opportunity to watch this evening’s first half of this miniseries, please consider watching the second half tomorrow evening. This email does a good job of presenting the situation. David Cunningham, Director, is the son of Loren Cunningham, Founder of Youth With A Mission. […]

We generally assume this coming of the Kingdom has to do with something that happens in the future. But what if we look for places where it has already happened? Some years ago now George Otis, Jr. started looking for cities where the Kingdom has come. He (the last time I talked with him) […]

Part II: The Strategy
Jesus told many stories (parables) about the Kingdom and the coming of the Kingdom. A really good devotional is to do a search in a concordance on Kingdom of Heaven in the Gospels and then read all the passages that are returned.
The strategy of seeing this Kingdom today involves two components: one […]

Part 1: The Purpose
What is life all about, anyway? What is God doing, and what are we supposed to be doing?
Jesus made it clear that the purpose of life was the coming of God’s Kingdom on earth as it already was in heaven. In the Model Prayer Jesus told us to pray:
Our Father in heaven,
Hallowed […]

Anyone doing research on the growth of the Church in America will tell you there is a serious problem. In the younger age group of the Millennials (born 1984-2000), only one in ten attends Church. And this is the generation that has to carry the church to the next generation. Most of the current Church […]

If you are a leader in your church or organization, you often have the challenge of leading change and finding resistance; that is, people don’t want to change. Church Growth leaders are telling us the institutional church is failing. What type of change is needed? How should this be led? It reminds me of the […]