We don’t like to sacrifice, we never do. But we do it all the time anyway mostly because of what is associated with it, or what is on the other side of it. That’s because sacrifice often brings reward. The most attractive sacrifice is about giving up something of smaller or lesser value for something […]
Last week we kicked off our Vision Campaign. Vision is a new message series, but it is more than a message series too, it is a whole new season of life for our parish. We’re looking ahead to where God is blessing and where he wants us going. And as part of that process we’re […]
The vision has an appointed time, it speaks to the end and will not prove false. Though it linger, wait for it, it will certainly come. Habakkuk 2.3 This weekend was an incredibly important one for us here at Nativity. It was the start of our Vision Series. But this series is unlike any […]
We spent a good part of this week with our friend Patrick Lencioni. Patrick is the founder of a leadership consulting firm, The Table Group, as well as New York Times Best Selling author of half a dozen books on leadership and management. Fortunately for us, he loves working pro-bono for not for profits like […]
This week senior staff leadership (me, Tom, Chris, Brian, and Alison) have been invited to California for a review and evaluation of how we work together as a team. The invitation comes from our friend Patrick Lencioni, founder and president of The Table Group, a management and consulting firm specializing in organizational health and executive […]
It is always funny (as in irritating and annoying) that so many people, even parishioners, are unaware that this church is run by a professional lay staff. Anyway it is, and as Nativity has grown so has our full time and part time staff members. At this point we have 12 full time employees and […]
We have kicked off our second message series of the new year, and it is already getting a lot of attention. Maybe because it’s the topic: love. And not just any old kind of love…we’re tackling tough love. To begin with, to truly be people who love others, we need to come to the fuller […]
That is an interesting question, which I once heard Pastor Perry Noble ask, and answer. It was actually a friend of his who asked him the question originally and his answer was “start a church.” Which is exactly what he did, planting what is now easily one of the largest, fastest growing churches in the […]
From time to time I like to give my loyal readers an update on what is going on around Nativity, just to let you know what’s new, what’s next, as well as what happened. Message Series We are this weekend finishing up our first series for the new year, Greater Than. It has been a […]
As we begin a new year, we are going to look at worry. And our goal is to learn to worry less and move in the direction of eliminating worry. And as we begin, I want to make two clarifications: There are some among you who believe that worry is inevitable. You would say that […]
