Is Your Church Ready for Mr. Freeze?
Nope, not the current atmospheric stuff we’re dealing with – the Polar Vortex that’s turning your greeting team into a bunch of volunteersicles. (Although, if you want to talk about how to keep ’em warm, may...
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Want to Connect? Serve!
Fewer things bring me more joy than to hear a volunteer talk about the community they’ve found by serving. This weekend our media team highlighted the story of Eileen, a friend I’ve known since first...
Flashback Friday: So Logical, It’s Scary
Every Friday I dig into the archives and dust off an old post. If you haven’t read it, it’s new to you! My second born Austin has always been the sweetly-oblivious, doesn’t-always-mean-to-be-funny one in...
Thursday Three For All
It’s Thursday, kiddies: the day when I roll out a few things I’ve been reading over the past week. Three of ‘em, to be exact. Enjoy. (Remember: click on the bold print to read the entire...
Rules or Tools?
Way back in my first few weeks at the Summit – during the season where all of us were trying to figure out what this new role looked like – my lead pastor made the...
Are You Provoking Your Volunteers to Wrath?
Any time I want to feel really lousy about my [husband skills / parenting skills / boss skills], I flip over to Ephesians 5 & 6. In true Pauline fashion, the apostle uses those two...
Flashback Friday: Marshmallow Grabbing and the Gospel
Every Friday I dig into the archives and dust off an old post. If you haven’t read it, it’s new to you! Yesterday I was rolling down the road and listening to NPR, because apparently...
Thursday Three For All
It’s Thursday, kiddies: the day when I roll out a few things I’ve been reading over the past week. Three of ‘em, to be exact. Enjoy. Top Ten Ways Churches Drive Away First Time...
Just a Nudge
If you’re like me, you have a dozen projects that need your attention today. A hundred tasks that await you. A thousand open loops running through your cranium. If your church is like mine, you...
See Them First
“They’ll see you before you see them.” That’s what a friend of mine said a few months back in a meeting we were both attending, and I’ve never forgotten it. “We say that a smile goes...
