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 […]
We’re getting pretty excited about the upcoming launch of our Crowne Plaza venue. But we’re still getting questions about why we’re doing this. The next few posts we’re going to field some of the questions we’ve been getting. First question, number one question: “What are we doing and why are we doing it?” The original impetus came […]
Most of my experience of church growing up was boring. I realize that some of that was due to my spiritual immaturity, but the experiences were still boring: not aggressively bad, but hardly good, hardly ever well done, rarely joyous or challenging, just boring. Unfortunately, my experience is in no way exceptional. Church should not […]
