Church Planters Beware!
When I was a wee lad, I remember going to the store with my dad. He'd give me five bucks or so, and I'd walk around all wide-eyed to see what I could buy. My dad was pretty street wise and he's always make sure to remind me to do two things. First, he'd tell me to...
Serving with Passion!
I get tired. It's true! I know I'm part of some pretty awesome stuff. I'm partnering with God to write history. But I still get tired. Sometimes I even go beyond tired and get self-centered, petty, and prideful. How does this happen to me? Well, there's this...
How to Make Sure You’ll Never Lead
I'm pretty fortunate. Many years ago, when I was working my first full-time church staff position, my pastor made sure to invest lots of leadership training in me. We watched leadership videos together, had lengthy discussions about leadership, and he was willing to...
The Most Beautiful Thing
I came across this quote by Albert Einstein the other day and it really hit me... "The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. He who can no longer wonder or stand rapt in awe is as good as dead, a...
What’s Wrong With You?
Criticism is popular in our culture. We have movie critics, food critics, business critics, and even church critics. That’s right, there are “secret shoppers” out there who visit churches for the sake of writing critical reviews. In the church, we have those who...
