Category Archives: Church
Leadership Lessons From Shark Week- Pt. 2
In yesterday’s post, I spoke a little about how a shark cannot swim backwards- they can only go forward- or where their eyes are looking. This brings up the great question for your church, business, and personal life of, “Where … Continue reading
Leadership Lessons From Shark Week- Pt. 1
Since it is Shark Week on the Discovery Channel, and since there is nothing else compelling on TV right now, Andrea and I have been watching some of the shark programming at night. We are both filled with a bit … Continue reading
6 Improvements for the 2011 Peninsula-Delaware Annual Conference
Before beginning, I need to give credit to Josh Hale as he made a similar post regarding the Texas Annual Conference (Read post here). His thoughts have helped to formalize some of my own thoughts in thinking about the Pen-Del 2010 … Continue reading
Transitions
May is a month of transitions. Most places in the country are going from spring into summer. Schools are quickly headed for summer break. College students are coming home and looking for jobs. Transitions are all around us- and happening … Continue reading
Book Review: Church In The Making
I just finished reading Ben Arment’s book, Church In The Making: What Makes or Breaks a New Church Before It Starts? If you’re a church leader, you should probably know who Ben Arment is. He has been a church planter … Continue reading
To My Friends At Avenue Church
It was nine years ago yesterday that Andrea and I first came to Milford. While we feel pretty young now, we came to Milford at the ripe age of 22. We felt a real sense of call in coming to … Continue reading
Should Churches Celebrate Mother’s Day?
There was an interesting sidebar in the current issue of Christianity Today asking some Christian leaders as to whether or not Christians/Churches should celebrate Mother’s Day (link goes to article on CT’s website). Our church does some sort of Mother’s Day … Continue reading
An Invitation to Community
I began a series yesterday where we will preach through the book of 1 John. I led a bible study last fall on the book and really found it engaging. Aparently, John Wesley called 1 John the “deepest part of … Continue reading
A Radical Minimum Standard
I’ve been guilty from time to time of trying to figure out what is the least I can do and get by. In college, sometimes it was what is the least amount of reading I can do and still get … Continue reading
My Thoughts on Craig Groeschel’s Thoughts on the UMC- Pt. 4
In Craig Groeshel’s fourth blog on the United Methodist Church, he tackled our apportionment system. Apportionments are part of the United Methodist Church’s connectionalism. Each church gives from their own budget/income to pay for the conference/jurisdictional/global iniatives of the Methodist … Continue reading
Exiled Community 