Throughout my childhood and teenage years, we lived next door to the church where my dad was pastor. The upside was that I could always roll out of bed and still get to church in less than two minutes. But on the downside, it seemed we always had to be ready for company. Living in […]
Nate Adams
How ‘what’ and ‘why’ unify
The 2025 Southern Baptist Convention is behind us, and with it the meetings, reports, motions, and actions that pleased some and disappointed others. I know that many church members and even pastors rarely or never attend an SBC in person. That was true for me until I was almost 40, so I appreciate the reality […]
Between summits
Those who know me or who have been reading this column for a while know that I am on a bit of a quest to climb as many of Colorado’s 14,000-foot mountains as possible. My oldest son, Caleb, and I have summited 37 “fourteeners” together, some with other family members. My wife, Beth, would be […]
Adams: Future-ready churches
It wasn’t surprising to me that this year’s Illinois Leadership Summit was well-attended and well-received by about 200 pastors and leaders from IBSA churches. That has been the growing trend for several years now, thanks to guest speakers like Mac Lake, Mark Clifton, and Dave Rhodes, as well as practical breakouts from pacesetting church leaders […]
The Home Stretch
When I played basketball in college, our coach expected everyone on the team to come to the start of the season with a certain level of personal conditioning. For example, before anyone could attend his first practice in the fall, he had to demonstrate that he could run a mile in five and half minutes, […]
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