Category Archives: Leadership
How We Do Ministry
We had our first Church Council meeting last week at Hope UMC and I started the meeting off with a document of how I hope and desire to do ministry at Hope. You could say that these are my ministry values. There … Continue reading
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
Power, Authority and Ministry
I’m taking the class Mission of Jesus in Mark in a couple of weeks at seminary, and I have been reading The Mission of God by Christopher J. H. Wright for the class. The book is very interesting- while a … Continue reading
World Cup Vision
While I am not a soccer (futbol) fan, I have enjoyed watching some of the World Cup this year (a 42′ HD TV certainly helps). I tried to watch the USA games and now that they are out of the … 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
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
Top 15 Things Learned At Catalyst One Day
I traveled with some friends to the Catalyst Oneday event in Baltimore (actually, Fulton) Maryland this past Monday. I had been hoping to get to a Catalyst event and had originally planned on going to the big one in Atlanta … Continue reading
Doing Church on Purpose
At Avenue, we’re in the midst of our Stewardship Campaign with a series titled: “Living Under the Blessing Tree.” After two weeks, the feedback has been really positive as we stress generosity in all we do. The messages for the … Continue reading
Going Beyond Discipleship
In our weekly staff meeting this past Monday, one of our staff people raised an interesting question. She asked why we are so caught up in Discipleship but not in making Apostles. A disciple, according to the HarperCollins Bible Dictionary, … Continue reading
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