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 […]
Category: Making Church Matter
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 […]
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 […]
