It’s 2.5 Minutes to Midnight
We live in a crazy world. It seems everything has been turned upside down since the election of Donald Trump. Truthfully, I don’t know if this is good or bad. I guess we will have to wait and see. What I do know is I have come to distrust what I read or see on […]
The Discovery Bible Study Questions Revised
Years ago, I was trained in house church leadership by one of the nation’s top gurus Neil Cole. I took the opportunity to shadow him for several days and learned a lot about time management, house church, leadership, and group led Bible studies. At the time he was using the Discovery Questions, six questions that […]
Don’t Make These Five Leadership Selection Gaffs
The pastor was sharing his frustration about one of his executive team members during a recent consultation. “No matter what I do, Cyndi finds a problem with pretty much anything I suggest. She either tries to fix what’s not broken or she sabotages the idea completely. I wish I’d never invited her onto the team, but now I’m […]
I Want to See My Grandchild in Heaven
I am a grandfather! I have had married children for a few years. And those who are already grandparents have been hounding me to have grandchildren. I usually tell them I don’t have much control over such matters. These folks uniformly tell me how awesome it is to be a grandparent; just play with the […]
Mary Did You Know – A Merry Christmas
This Christmas I was introduced to the Pentatonixs (I know you probably knew about them earlier). What a great singing group, especially in a world where most music is slightly better than noise! But it gets better. Have you heard their song “Mary did you know?” It’s one of the most beautiful and theologically sound […]
Addition to Multiplication
If you’re been reading my posts, you know for the past couple of years I’ve been working with an Exponential think tank to examine what they are calling a Level 5 Church. Basically a Level 5 church is one that is committed to multiplication at every level. The heart of the Level 5 Church is […]