Well, I’m back from vacation and attempting to become fully engaged (with moderate success). Here are some of the things I’m currently working on: 1) A new message series. Again this summer, as we have the past two summers, I am not speaking most weekends. That gives me a break and allows me to do […]
I am currently on vacation. Please enjoy the second half of this vintage post. Talk to you next week. 7 GREAT PRACTICES CONTINUED By nativitypastor : July 1, 2009 This past Sunday we published four of the seven “great practices” we had found in successful Churches. Below are the final three practices. Take a look. […]
I am currently on vacation, please enjoy this vintage post. 7 GREAT PRACTICES By nativitypastor : June 28, 2009 As we gathered together with Parish staff and leadership last week we spent some time looking at things we’ve learned from others, especially the very best practices of some of the most successful Churches in America. […]
I am currently on vacation . Please enjoy a previous post. AVALON JOURNAL PART III: ENJOYING HAPPY HOUR VS BEING THE CHURCH CHRIST WANTS By nativitypastor : July 23, 2011 It’s hot in Avalon. Too hot for the beach, or for much of anything else. Fortunately, the heat provides even more incentive for me to […]
I am currently on vacation (and trying not to work). To that end, please enjoy this blog from July 2011. The weekend is coming and that means I have to go to church again. I could go Sunday, but that is just prolonging the pain. I’ll go to the 5pm Saturday Mass and get it […]
More than a month ago, I had a post about finding a title for our forthcoming book. We’d been working on it for a long time at that point. We’ve been discussing it and working on it ever since too. Today, I got a telephone call from my editor to report back on another meeting […]
A couple of weeks ago I posted a blog about a friend of mine who felt like he was languishing in his parish: it was boring and bad and the pastor was sort of grumpy. He’s searched for another parish, but with no success. And then he ran across this incredibly vibrant and joyous church […]
This week some of our staff got together to begin planning for a conference, which we will be hosting this fall. A “church” conference. Why a church conference? What is a church conference? Here’s the background. For a number of years we set aside a Saturday each fall for a retreat for our parish staff. […]
I had an interesting experience this week with my associate Tom. We went “church shopping.” Now, when people use that expression, they are usually referring to the exercise of trying one church after another looking for a good fit. It really doesn’t bother me that people do that, in fact I think people should probably […]
Yesterday was the first day of Vacation Bible School. It was also the funeral of Tim Muth. Tim was a generous and beautiful man who served as a youth minister and a children’s minister here at Nativity. He died suddenly last week at the age of 50. The juxtaposition of raw grief at the death […]
