Advice for a First-Time Preacher

Our church’s worship leader and all-around good guy, Mike, is preparing to preach his first sermon in a few weeks. I put together a few thoughts on the topic to help guide him through the process and posted it over at Planting Partners. If you’re a pastor/speaker, I’d love for you to go over there [...]

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Transcendence and Immanence

Today I was sitting in the church nursery (that’s where I do my thinking and praying these days) looking out the window at a sea of aspen trees ablaze with the colors of fall. I thought to myself, “I love living here.” The fall colors have been amazing for like a month now.
Before moving here, [...]

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Momentum

I’ve got a new post over at Planting Partners.

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Comeback Churches – Leaders

Chapter 10 – Comeback Change Agents: New or Renewed Pastors 
At first glance it seems this chapter is a rehash of chapter 2. (Truth is that pretty much the last 5 chapters are all rehashing of previous themes from a slightly different angle). But whereas chapter 2 was about the leader being the number one factor [...]

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Comeback Churches – Facilities

Chapter 9 – Other Comeback Factors 
This chapter includes a variety of other “comeback factors” like facilities, marketing, resources, and the age and size of the church. The only thing really worth mentioning here is facilities.
 
Comeback churches often changed their facilities to help facilitate growth. The authors use an apt metaphor of a bonsai tree whose [...]

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Optimism

It’s 4 a.m. I’ve been up for 3 hours after sleeping for one hour. It’s been awhile since this has happened. I’m not sure if it’s stuff on my mind or if it’s just the two cups of coffee I had after dinner (though that doesn’t usually affect me too bad). At any rate, whenever I am [...]

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