Today, Tony and I had to appear in court as character witnesses. With both of us receiving less than an hour’s notice we both showed up with what we were already wearing, jeans and a button up long-sleeve shirts (which, by the way, is standard Sunday attire).
Before the judge swore us in, Tony and I [...]
Today I had a great lunch with Tony.
He got me really pumped up for the next three weeks at Legacy. I think this will be one of those game changing series at Legacy. This series is designed to very clearly lay out the future of Legacy and push you to make a choice about your [...]
A very cool ad campaign for Star Wars on SpikeTV.
This looks very interesting.
I love seeing churches come together.
Adobe launches Photoshop Express online.
I haven’t tried it yet, but the idea of a stripped-down, but free version of Photoshop online is interesting. Just remember, it does not make you a designer.
Twitter saving lives.
Told you it wasn’t useless.
Field [...]
After last week and this weekend, I’m tired. Hopefully I’ll get some rest this week.
In between getting rest, I’m also hoping to get completely caught up before the next big project hits.
The latest issue of The Business Journal comes out next week.
Pastoring at a small church is exhilarating, frustrating and challenging all at the same [...]
I’ve been reminded this last week that so much of ministry happens outside the church. That’s the important part. Church is just there to bring the family together to connect. You can’t have deep relationships with people if you see them for an hour on Sunday’s. It takes an investment of time to get to [...]
Today turned out to be a really great day. We broke a Legacy attendance record and it’s fun to see that many people fill up the building. It’s also great to see a few people stepping up and serving in various areas. It feels like things are really starting to come together.
So today was huge. [...]
Or, the more blatantly shock-value oriented title, The one where Craig Groeschel rips my heart out for the world to see.
First, go read this.
And there, in that short post, is where my heart is forcibly removed from my chest. It takes everything I’ve been feeling and going through in the past few months and puts [...]
Let me just go on record saying I’m not a fan of bi-vocational ministry. For those that don’t know, that’s where you work your tail off at a regular job and then do the same for the church.
The hardest part is that we don’t get the interaction that comes from being on staff full-time at [...]
I think I got in trouble for saying that one time during a sermon. But I meant it.
Church is one of those places where we are the least honest. We put on a show while there because we feel we have to live within certain standards and if we pretend long enough, that’s good enough. [...]
With our move to Legacy I’ve had to rewrite my thinking. We came from a small church to a growing church.
In a small church it was easier to just say “I’ll teach it myself.” In a growing church I have to be able to instead write curriculum and deploy it to others to teach.
In a [...]
See the post below for my thoughts on church and guilt. Now, three ways to avoid guilting your church into showing up.
1. Vision.
2. Vision.
3. Vision.
In a word: vision. Casting vision for things is so vitally important. A person’s reason for showing up for a program is not “because the doors are open.” I think we [...]
I love the fact that the more I’m connected with God, the more my view of what church should be changes.
I’ve been very guilty of looking at people in church and wondering why they aren’t connecting with a particular ministry when it’s obviously so perfect for them. I mean come on. We go to [...]
God’s been pushing me to kick off February with a series on prayer. So many kids have no idea how to really pray. They’re picture of prayer is hands clasped, eyes closed, heads bowed and trying to say all the right words. They won’t pray in public because they’re afraid of saying the wrong thing [...]
This may seem a little nuts, but rest assured I haven’t broken open a new bottle of crazy pills. We recently had to sit down and write up our departmental plans for church. As part of that we had to set goals. I began to pray through what I thought God wanted us to do [...]
I find as I’m getting older, my competitive streak is dying out. I used to hate to lose while at the same time making it look like winning was so easy it was nothing. Now, I just don’t care. Any time spent not working is just used for relaxing. Any time not spent working and [...]
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