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Worship Rises Releases Today

My friend Chris Vacher has been spearheading an exciting project over the last year…a worship cd called Worship Rises.
It releases today on iTunes and I’d love for you to pick it up and, if you’re excited, tell your friends about it.  Chris is a great guy and awesome leader in the church.  He’s pulled together [...]

Game Changer

I’d love your input!  I’ve been invited to speak at a conference where the theme is “Game changer”.  I’ve been reflecting for a week now on some game-changers in my life…and I’m not sure what to choose.
There have been a few, but I really want to find one that resonates.
Sooo….

What’s been a game changer for [...]

Five Things That Stop Great Leaders from Entering Ministry

Some insightful discussion last week around this question: where are the great leaders in this generation of church?  What’s keeping the next generation of leaders from using their gifts in ministry?
So if the best and brightest of the current and next generation aren’t bring their gifts into full time ministry, why not?  Here are some [...]

Where are the Leaders?

Where are the great leaders in this generation of church?
I’m not talking about the handful we twitter about, follow, admire or whose books we read and conferences we attend.  I’m talking about what happened to great leaders leading in churches in every province, state, city, town and even village?
Maybe it’s just nostalgia, but [...]

Happy Father’s Day (aka How to Get Fired on Mother’s Day)

If a lot of us preachers treated Mother’s Day the way we treat Father’s Day, we’d get fired.
On Father’s Day, we often say “Dads, time to get your act together…step up…accept responsibility…be a leader…we expect it, and you’re not measuring up.”
Try that on Mother’s Day.  Exactly.
I’m not saying we should be hard on our moms [...]

One Key to Innovation

In 2011, more than half of all of Apple’s revenue will come from products that did not exist four years ago.
That’s impressive.
What amazes me about Apple is how it produces products that dazzle many of us over and over again.  When I picked up my iPhone 3Gs last summer I thought – I don’t know [...]

Seven Questions to Help Engage the Culture

It’s so easy to become culturally irrelevant.  I don’t even need to try.  One day you’re doing some awesome worship music, playing Modest Mouse and serving bold coffee, and the next minute it sounds like polka music to the next generation of kids.  It happens so fast.
At Connexus Church, we do a weekly service programming [...]

Marathon (6) – Never Make Tomorrow’s Decisions Based on Today’s Emotions

 Life is emotional.  Very emotional.  
One of the worst mistakes you can make as a leader is to make tomorrow’s decisions based on today’s emotions.  

You send the drippingly sarcastic or angry email…and regret it the next morning. 
You are so hurt by the betrayal of a friend that you decide to close yourself off emotionally [...]

Marathon (3) – A Rhythm of Rest and Refuelling

I was terrible at this for years.  Rest was for people who just couldn’t handle a real workload.  If you went home at 4 p.m., it was because you really weren’t committed to the cause.
There was a strange justification that happened in the back of my mind that told me the harder I worked, the [...]

What Toyota Can Teach Us

I am a fan of Toyota.  I own one currently and have owned another one in the past.  They make great cars.
So it hurts me to see how they are responding to what is emerging as the greatest crisis Toyota has faced.  I want them to do better.  I want them to sell more cars. [...]