Monthly Archive: August 2009

Love God, Love People

Love God, Love People

Last Thursday my best friend Greg lost his dad to a massive stroke.  Jim English was not only the dad of my friend, he was my friend.  I’ve gotten to know him over the last...

Count the Cost

Count the Cost

  A few years back our media team produced a great video called “The Set Up Fairy.”  If I were more technologically adept I’d put it up here so you could see it, but trust...

Where Did All The Passion Go?

Where Did All The Passion Go?

It happens in marriages.  It happens in jobs.  And it especially happens in churches.  Vision drifts, passion wanes, and people find themselves stuck in a rut with no way out. The problem is often not...

One in Four

One in Four

It’s Volunteer Week both on this blog and the Brier Creek AM Campus blog.  Want to know more?  Come to one of our Frontline events or go here to sign up for a ministry team....

Volunteer Week Begins!

Volunteer Week Begins!

Starting this morning over at the Brier Creek AM Campus blog, I’m running a series of posts that will (hopefully) cause an army of would-be volunteers to rise up from their fuzzy chairs, storm the...

Crumminess Lives On…

Crumminess Lives On…

Since this blog’s inception I’ve had a link to Crummy Church Signs in the “You Need to Read” section to the right.  It was with a tremendous amount of sadness that I logged on a...

Why We Do What We Do

Why We Do What We Do

Below is the full text of an e-mail I received earlier this week from one of our Brier Creek AM Campus deacons, and I reprint it with his permission.  Gang, this is the whole reason...

Biblical Productivity

Biblical Productivity

I never thought I would be drop kicked and punched in the throat at the same time by Rev. C.J. Mahaney. If you’re not familiar with Mahaney, he’s a pastor in Maryland, a prolific author,...

Write Your Own Caption

Write Your Own Caption

I tell you, people, sometimes this blog just writes itself.  Below is a picture of my receipt from yesterday’s lunch.  Imagine my surprise and delight when I got back to the car and looked at...

The End of an Era

The End of an Era

Just in case you missed it, yesterday saw the close of a huge chapter of the Summit’s history.  After feeding thousands of people, setting up hundreds of tables, and repeating the process dozens of months,...

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