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Best Thing…Hardest Thing

I’ve got one of the best things in my life happening in the next few days, and I’m also up against one of the hardest disciplines I face.
I’m going on vacation. That’s the best part.  Nine days starting today with the famous you-can-only-understand-this-if-you’re-Canadian 22 hour non stop drive to the FLA.  Seven nights to unwind [...]

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. [...]

Why Your Ministry Should Be Offensive

“The crowd listened until Paul said that word. Then they all began to shout…”He isn’t fit to live!”(Acts 22.22).
What did he say?  You’d think he dropped some profanity.  Nope.
You’d think he denounced Jesus.  Not that either.
What did he say?  The word was “Gentiles”.  He simply announced that he was going to work with people outside [...]

How Jesus Might Respond to Haiti

We’re all watching and responding to what’s happening in Haiti.  We don’t know the full extent of what the damage is or how many have lost their lives. But we’re praying for them and responding to them.  And we should.  And we will. It’s incredibly sad.  I think it’s only appropriate that our attention, hearts [...]

What If Your Faith Grew Like This?

Some mornings my Bible reading stops me dead in my tracks.  This was the first verse I read this morning:
“Some time later, the Lord spoke to Abram in a vision and said to him, “Do not be afraid, Abram, for I will protect you, and your reward will be great.” Genesis 15:1 (NLT)

Could have stopped [...]

When The World Wakes Up, the Church Goes to Sleep…

We had a great day at Connexus yesterday.  A record or near record crowd (I don’t see all the numbers Sunday)…great feedback.  Lots of new families.  As any lead pastor, staff member or volunteer might be, I was pumped as I drove home.
But then this irony struck me – hard.  We start setting up church [...]

The Final 10: Not Settling for Almost

So it’s Monday and everyone is wading back into the fray of life.  But one more venture into some New Year’s talk if we might before the ordinary swallows us whole.
A new year is about a starting new things, but what about finishing what’s been started before you just settle for ‘almost’.
One of my new [...]

My Wish For You in 2010…Get Some Bible Going

Happy New Year!  If I had one thing I could wish for you this year in terms of your personal growth, it would be to get into the Bible in a fresh way.
If you do that:

Your prayer life will grow
The status quo will get shaken up
You’ll develop a fresh heart for people who don’t know [...]

How to Keep a New Year’s Resolution

So January is almost here.  You’ve got resolutions…so do I.  How do you handle it?  I used to make a list and forget about most of them by March.
Over the last few years, here are some changes I’ve made to how I think about personal change that I thought I’d share.  So far, I’m finding [...]

What Happened Christmas Eve

So we rolled with our Christmas Eve services and I think our Service Programming team (the sweet team that creates our services) did a great job straddling the tension between giving people what they want and delivering what people need.  As last week’s post pointed out, Christmas is an especially tough service to plan.
So what [...]