Sorry, I am a little late with this week’s post.Memorial Day weekend is definitely the start of the summer season. Last summer we decided that we wanted to continue doing message series through the season, rather than concede the whole summer. But, we needed a plan that provided me with some weekends off, for vacation […]
This past week our staff went to the beach (Avalon) for our annual planning retreat. We made great progress in defining some of what next year (September 2010-May 2011) is going to look like: message series, children’s and student programs, major events, etc. We also discussed new structures for our work together. Until recently we […]
This week I was in Atlanta for a conference at North Point Church , led by Pastor Andy Stanley. I traveled with a few of our staff, including Lisa Scata our Children’s Director, and Brian Crook our Weekend Director, who had never been there before.We have never made a secret of our eagerness to learn from […]
This is the last week for our current series, Dangerous Church, looking at the Acts of the Apostles. And this is one more installment looking at some of the leadership lessons the Acts of the Apostles has to teach us. When last we left the story, Paul is preaching in a city called Antioch and things […]
We’ve been looking at Acts and challenging the whole Church to read through the whole book. Besides being an indespensible source of early church history it is also a rich source of leadership lessons. We’re going to look at another one from chapter 13. Paul is in Antioch and goes into the synagogue, because that’s […]
We are challenging our whole parish to read through the Acts of the Apostles this Easter season. Acts is the story of the first Easter season, the weeks and months that followed the resurrection, as well as the first 30 years of the church. It is a story that helps us understand the principles that […]
The apostles performed many miraculous signs and wonders among the people. And all the believers used to meet together in Solomon’s Portico. No one dared join them, even though they were highly regarded by the people. Nevertheless, more and more men and women were added to their number. Acts 5.12-14 The Church […]
He has risen! –Luke 24.6 The three words that changed everything were the words of the angel on that first Easter morning, the first Easter celebration. The most recent Easter celebrations, here at Nativity, were really amazing too and I want to thank everyone who made that happen. We had dozens (hundreds?) of volunteer ministers working […]
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 […]
