Mary Magdalene went to the disciples with the news: “I have seen the Lord!” John 20.18 This is Easter weekend, and that means a lot of people are coming to Church, especially on Sunday. Besides the Easter Vigil, we have four Easter morning services in six venues. We don’t do Sunday afternoon services on Easter because […]
Here’s the rest of my list: Mistake #6: Trying to Fix Problems…rather than Process. Unfortunately, there have been too many times when I have found myself reacting to a problem rather than addressing the process that led to the situation in the first place. It takes a lot of discipline to rise above the […]
One more post inspired by Tony Morgan’s book (see below). Morgan lists the top 10 leadership mistakes he’s made over the years. I resonated with most, but not all of his list. I also easily thought of a few that didn’t make his list that rank high on mine. The order of my list is […]
I am usually carrying around a book. I have piles of books at home that I am reading, intending to read, thinking about reading, almost finished reading, re-reading. (It’s probably a terrible system, I think I developed it in college.) But then sometimes there is a book I’ve got going on that is on a […]
This week I was listening to a church leader describe a prime value his church staff together hold. They describe this value in a simple phrase:they call it “Heart for the house.” The phrase speaks to the loyalty, honor and single-mindedness they hold for their church. The question, “How’s your heart for the house?” is […]
Yesterday morning we meet with our Strategic Planning Leadership Team. Each of these team members in turn lead a team of people looking at campus and buildings, finances, human resources, technology and a category we’ve been calling “teaching church.” As I learned in the course of the meeting, these teams are doing a […]
We have been talking about emotional health (the past two messages are available here on our blog as video pod casts). For too long we have delegated “emotional issues” to the therapists office, or, ignored them entirely. Emotional health and spiritual health are inseparably linked and critical to real discipleship. (Peter Scazzero’s book on the […]
About half way through the 10:30 Mass this morning here at Ridgely Road, during the Creed, Austin (a Sunday staffer) came over to me and whispered “Crowne Plaza is filled.” It was one of those moments that I will easily remember for a long time, maybe forever. It is great when you get to […]
Our Crowne Plaza launch is just a week away and we are really excited. This is the final post in a series of posts looking at what we’re doing and why we’re doing it. If you haven’t had a chance, take a look at the last two weeks. This week, just some final thoughts. The […]
Crowne Plaza is two weeks away and we’ve been discussing some questions about what we’re doing. What we’re doing is hosting a worship service for people in our North Baltimore community who grew up Catholic and no longer go to Church, mostly because they don’t like Church. Why are we doing it? Because there are alot […]
