The Enabler: Carl’s Ministry Blog

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 […]

Don’t look for us to tell you how to vote, but we do have some advice:

Study the issues and the candidates

If it’s someone already in a political position, hold them accountable for their past record against your values.
Pray!
Vote !

I find things very discouraging as I go into the election. The Republicans have massive management as […]

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 […]

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 […]

Our post quoting Andrew Strom is stirring a lot of interest. Let me carry the issue further by looking at the church attendance statistics by generation group. Generational definitions vary with the research, so we will define some boundaries here for our purposes.
Builders - Born 1926-1945
These are the people that built the institutions […]

Here is a VERY provacative book review of two books by Andrew Strom, a New Zealander:
BARNA’s ‘REVOLUTION’ - A Review by Andrew Strom.
2005 has seen the release of two of the most important and provocative books for the Western church in years. I am referring to James Rutz’s ‘MEGASHIFT’ and now George Barna’s ‘REVOLUTION’.
Even the […]

Rosa Parks is not just the African American hero. She is the hero of everyone that feels oppressed and cut down by forces they have little control over. She showed us that a simple act of courage in an obsure circumstance can have a ripple effect that is not only local or national, […]

Today is a big day for the space program. NASA gets a chance, after 2 1/2 years, to show us it can do its stuff. Too often we focus on the two failures - and fail to see the over 100 successful launches of the shuttle and what that means to us.
A poll from CNN […]

A Father’s Day Message
After my wife died in ‘92, I didn’t go to the beach again for about two years. (I’m only about 90 miles from the Pacific.) Finally God spoke to me and asked me to make three trips to the beach in two weeks, and each time I was to catch the wind […]