The Four-Footed Beast of Ministry (Apostolic Series #2)
Four guys on horseback show up in the middle of the night. They’ve come from the four winds of heaven and have just traveled to the four corners of the […]
Author Archives: Al Purvis
Apostles Don’t Punch Out (Apostolic Series #1)
Every serious battle ends with a few undefeated men standing among the dead and wounded, and an abundance of weapons and equipment that are no longer needed. Take what you […]
Have you ever taken your disciples to the Gadarenes?
How I reach deeper – into me. What do I look like as a leader? Do I see myself mentoring like Jesus did? Like Barnabus? Like Paul? How do those I […]
Our Common Enemy (deep reach #1)
David had to choose an enemy. Would it be King Saul and his javelins or the Philistines with the spoil? Saul caused David more problems than the Philistines but there […]
Apostolic Trigger (deep reach #5)
We are compelled to reach out as far as is required to not only save a soul but to engage them in the process of becoming a disciple. Reaching farther […]
How to Reach The Leader in Those Who Aren’t (deep reach #4)
Our vision remains to reach, teach, and mobilize people. We haven’t really reached them until we’ve engaged them in the ‘teach’, the process of becoming a disciple. So our challenge is […]
Reach Deeper (deep reach #3)
Our common enemy is the hell that holds the souls of people just beyond our reach. So to win, we must reach deeper. When we reach deeper, what do we […]
Level Up (deep reach #2)
I would consider Summit 2018 to be a moment of reckoning for us, a kairos moment where God told us to ‘level up’, as Pastor Yvette called it. How many […]
Conquest by Culture
A simple cultural shift changed the destiny of an entire nation from complete losers to amazing winners in one generation. How can we make such a shift? The Israelites in […]
Numbers Narcissist (a short rant from a week of unbelievable statistics)
See the bottom of my blog page? I have over 3,420 followers now! I could say 3,425, but then I couldn’t use the word ‘over’, and a numbers narcissist can’t […]
