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 […]
Category: Making Church Matter
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 […]
There are different kinds of spiritual gifts but the same Spirit […]
This weekend we made a big announcement, at least we thought it was a big announcement. At prime time church time (9-12 Sunday mornings) we have no space, no seats, no overflow area, no standing room, nothing. We didn’t have a creche this year, or last year, because we don’t have any room to display […]
More thoughts on us and what we’re trying to do. Here are some thoughts on things (beyond the obvious things) I’m thinking we should probably never do. Here are ten in no particular order. 1) We will never honor God by compromising the vision he gives us in order to keep people happy. […]
Friday evening I was with a bunch of Pastors and other Church leaders. Saturday I spent the morning at a Church conference, for Pastors and Parish staffs. These recent back to back experiences got me thinking and reminded me of some things I struggle with when it comes to “Church-world” and “Church people.” Here are […]
