Yeah, yeah, I know—this is supposed to be the “Sunday” evening mind dump… Sue me. I didn’t preach yesterday but was at church, so I had the rare opportunity to sit back and watch things unfold from the perspective of a congregant. Different. Very different. When I’m up front, I feel like I can gauge […]
READ MOREThe other day on one of the gazillion blogs I read about some things churches would never do or things that would never change—it got me to thinking. What about us? What about Southbrook? Are there some NEVER’s that it would be helpful to acknowledge at our own church? Probably. And some of those are as follows: We […]
READ MORESeveral years ago while my family and I spent Thanksgiving with the victims of Hurricane Katrina we all learned the difference between being thankful “TO” and thankful “FOR.” And believe you me, there is a HUGE difference. People who are Thankful “For” mention things like… I’m thankful for my iphone I’m thankful for my talent […]
READ MOREThis month so many good things happen it’s hard to narrow things down. But, I need to laser focus my ADD self regardless so here goes… The ‘special element’ we pulled off yesterday to illustrate that things go viral from just one person was awesome. It only takes one! But pulling the thing off was […]
READ MOREBack by popular demand… Ok, ok, so only one person mentioned the absence of the mind dump last week—that’s popular enough for me to get on it! Especially since I have a lot to unload after this weekend. One of the toughest weekends to prepare for ever! Seems whenever God is going to move big, […]
READ MOREHave you ever met these guys? The Church Planting Zen Masters? The Start Up Yodas? These are the guys who have spent zero time in the trenches, zero time in boot camp, zero time on the field, and 99.9 percent of their church experience in the bleachers. Seriously, they’ve somehow learned all there is to […]
READ MOREWhen it comes to sin, have you noticed that everyone seems to have an subconscious scale of sorts? I’m talking about that spiritual gauge we apply to others and seldom (if ever) apply to ourselves. The following are common ways I’ve heard it applied: The stuff Hitler did ranks right at a 10 My friend’s […]
READ MORETrail fail ain’t fun—that much you can be very sure of. If you don’t have any idea what I am talking about, go to yesterday’s post, here, or just scroll down. So, the gist of what I’m saying is that we ‘become what we are committed to.’ We head straight for that which has our […]
READ MOREDon’t Crash into that Huge, Narly Boulder! I have really come to love mountain biking! There are few sports in life I have liked this much—slalom, G.S. and downhill (snow skiing) and Motocross come to mind, but few others. I think I would have gone ballistic for surfing but even though my family and I moved […]
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