You just landed on an every-once-in-a-while series called Primer Posts, a curated collection of my favorite articles and books on one particular topic. These are the resources I usually point to when people ask about getting...
Earlier this week I pitched ten books that I think you should read this summer. But earlier still, I started polling friends on the socials to figure out what you’re reading that I should...
Fellow book lovers, there are two times each year that we get our time to shine. One is those is the end-of-year “top reads” list which everyone else views as braggadocious, but we all...
Earlier this week I came to a COVID-19 crossroads: I realized for the entirety of this pandemic, I have not given a flying fig about what I eat. Chex Mix? Get in my belly....
In Matthew 5:41, Jesus pointed to a common practice of the day: Roman soldiers were allowed to conscript Jewish civilians into service and force them to carry their packs for one mile. In Jesus’...
Recently our staff team read through David Mathis’ Habits of Grace: Enjoying Jesus through the Spiritual Disciplines. I’m a multi-readthrough veteran of Spiritual Disciplines by Donald Whitney, so this was a fresh take on...
Slowly but surely, our world is showing signs of reopening after the initial wave of COVID-19 stay-at-home orders. Across the country, various governors are giving the all-clear for churches to begin to meet again...
Each month, we revisit a series of posts called Guest Services Road Trip. We’ll travel the country from the comforts of our couches, interviewing leaders who are in the trenches of ministry. Do you have an idea...
Q: The question I continually hear is that churches are NOT friendly and welcoming. How can we change that? [from the 2020 Blog Survey] A: Let me start with a little pushback: I’ve yet...
As this post goes live on April 30, 2020, we are almost seven weeks into the closure of Disneyland in California and Walt Disney World in Florida due to COVID-19. At the time of...
Sometimes a volunteer needs a break. In a previous post, I shared five ways to care for a tired team member. And I still stand by what I said from that previous post: “If...
Recently I teamed up with my friends Mark Waltz, Jason Young, and Greg Atkinson for a panel discussion about how to lead our volunteers and honor our guests when the church isn’t gathering physically....
We’re getting there, kids. We are in no way out of the woods yet, but we’re beginning to see glimpses of what looks like life returning to normal. We’re hearing stirrings of businesses reopening...
We’re just emerging from Easter 2020 where 99.9% of us had no public gatherings. And let’s get the Thank-You-Captain-Obvious statement out of the way: having services sequestered to an online-only environment is far from...
