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You Will Be Accountable for This

Who do you admire?  I imagine that if you’re a preacher, you admire other preachers.  If you’re in kids ministry or student ministry, you’ve got a few leaders you follow. Graphic designers study and admire other graphic designers, musicians often follow other musicians. If you work in the marketplace, you admire other friends, colleagues or [...]

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 [...]

It’s Worth It (Really)

Need some encouragement to keep going in ministry?
A few times every year I see a passage that I swear someone added to the Bible since the last time I read it.  It just pops out…I just missed it before.  Had one of those experiences this morning.  I hope it encourages you.

From childhood we have [...]

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 [...]

What People Really Want From You

So I like Apple.  True confession.  (And no surprise to anyone who knows me.)  Last week they taught me a key lesson in customer service I’m going to share, but first, the back story. 
When I entered into Apple world three years ago, I assumed Apple would have exceptional reliability.  That’s their reputation after all.  For sure, [...]