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June 22, 2018
Movers & Shakers, Week 3 — “The WE Team”
Not to be melodramatic, but can I get a bit melodramatic? I believe that what we’ll share on Sunday morning has the ability to change the trajectory of lives and families and households throughout our region. There. I said it. It’s a big deal. And it’s called The WE Team, and it takes moving and
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June 21, 2018
Saying What Goes Without Saying & Thinking About Things You Do Without Thinking
How’s that for a post title? But I’ll tell you what else it is: the key to me living up to whatever leadership potential I have. If you’ve spent anytime following my posts or even listening to my sermons, you know that I don’t regard leadership as one of my primary gifts. I’m a tennis
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June 20, 2018
Body Talk
A few years ago, I went through a season where I read Paul’s letter to the Colossians every morning. Since the New Testament epistles were designed to be heard/read/experienced in one sitting, I thought we’d give it try that way. It proves to be much more fruitful than simply reading a devotional chapter a
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June 19, 2018
From “Eye Roll” To “Absolute Necessity”: The Top Five Benefits Of A Strong Mission Statement
I have a confession: earlier in my ministerial career I treated any conversation about church mission statements with the dreaded eye roll. “Not again,” I thought. “There goes someone pontificating about mission and vision, which if you ask me is just a lot of talk that compensates for not doing much work.” Now: I did
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June 18, 2018
Movers & Shakers, Week 2 — The “See The Art In Me” Sermon Rewind
Yesterday’s message … Dealt with Bezalel and Oholiab, two of the bible’s movers & shakers who no one has ever heard of; Gave the analogy that the tabernacle is to the temple as a food truck is to a restaurant (original!); Had the people in the sound & AV booth call me a Prima Donna
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June 14, 2018
Welcoming Newcomers To Church With Brain Cells Rather Than Taste Buds
Yesterday’s post included some thoughts on my bromance with Aaron Mansfield, pastor of Morehead UMC in Morehead, Kentucky. It also linked to our recent podcast, which you can access at the bottom of this post as well. A good chunk of our conversation was devoted to this question: how do you welcome newcomers to church?
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Welcoming Newcomers To Church With Through Brain Cells Rather Than Taste Buds
Yesterday’s post included some thoughts on my bromance with Aaron Mansfield, pastor of Morehead UMC in Morehead, Kentucky. It also linked to our recent podcast, which you can access at the bottom of this post as well. A good chunk of our conversation was devoted to this question: how do you welcome newcomers to church?
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June 13, 2018
Social Media Has Made Me A Better Pastor With Better Friends
Yes, you read that post title correctly. Social media has significantly improved my life. Now: many people lament the effects of social media on the body politic, reporting how Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and the rest accentuate our differences and polarize our nation. And, if you’re United Methodist clergy, social media certainly helps to divide our
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June 12, 2018
Top Five Tuesday — Top Five Ways Grass Court Tennis Is A Different Sport Than Clay Court Tennis
Several years ago, Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal played an exhibition match called “The Battle Of The Surfaces” in which half the court was grass and the other half was clay. The arrangement made me think of the line from Hotel California: “this could be heaven or this could be hell …” With that in
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June 11, 2018
Movers & Shakers, Week 1 — The “Erasing A Generation” Sermon Rewind
Yesterday’s message … Hinged on the fact that in Exodus 1, the Hebrew midwives are named while the all powerful Pharoah is anonymous. A tiny detail with an enormous impact. Noted some parallels between Pharoah’s attempts to erase a generation and the culture wars many of us in the church find ourselves taking part in.
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