I guess I should feel good that I’m writing at a college level, but all the signs point to me needing to take it down a notch. Wait! Hear me out. Did you know that most of the great speakers and writers people admire write and speak at about an eighth grade level? Me either, […]
READ MOREI may have to enter the witness protection program after this series. Oh well, as they say, truth hurts. I’ve learned you can critique football, family members, politics, schools and a whole lot of other things, but say anything about denominations and overnight you’re about as popular as Salman Rushdie at an Iranian soccer game! […]
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I’m really sticking myself out there on this one, but I’ve felt a burden to reach out with all I’ve got to the husbands, fathers, and single men of Southbrook for Jesus Christ. Some of you might remember a post that I did not too long ago in which Barna (check here as well) did […]
READ MOREWe left off last time with a very volatile sentence regarding Dysfunctional structures and potential disastrous leadership styles. Here was that sentence, “Almost sounds like church.†What almost sounds like church? Well, at the risk of losing some readers for this series (the lethargic ones) I refer you to the previous post in the series […]
READ MORE‘Auld Lang Syne’ What a year it was for us at Southbrook Church! And there are so many things to be thankful for. But there were some heartaches as well. In fact, looking back I keep coming to the same conclusion about this year. It was a Charles Dickens kind of a year—â€The Best of […]
READ MOREToday I was once again reminded of why we are structured the way we are at Southbrook Church. Sure, there are plenty of good reasons we’ve chosen the structure we have—great churches I respect tremendously function similarly—places like Saddleback Church (with Rick Warren), Fellowship Church (Pastor Ed Young jr.), Northpoint (Andy Stanley), New Hope (Wayne […]
READ MOREThe other day my son was after me to go outside and throw the football with him. It was 38 degrees! I thought it might be a better time to break in the new Wii Santa brought this Christmas. So break it in we did. I’d been told it was a bit addicting. “What?†I […]
READ MOREHave you seen these? If so did you get close enough to see exactly what it was? No? Then here are a few more angles for ya… You can get these cool looking deals for your car at the resource table each weekend. Let’s get a few thousand of these […]
READ MOREAs I said yesterday, this past weekend was certainly right up there with the greatest celebrations I’ve ever experienced at a church!—any church! Sure, it ended up taking 14 services to pull it off, but was it worth it? You bet! More people came through the doors than ever before—over 3500!! And more people gave their […]
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