The First Visit Should Set Up The Second Visit
This is part five in the Five Plumb Lines series. Jump to the other posts at the bottom of the page. The first visit should set up the second visit. My entire first impressions paradigm...
Monthly Archive: June 2012
Redeeming Religion
And just like that, the First Impressions Plumblines series disappeared last week. It went the way of a ship in the Bermuda Triangle and the Roanoke Island colonists and my set of Mp3 speakers that...
Flashback Friday: Hansbrough-Sized Ego
It’s the last day of Elevate Summer Camp. By the end of the day the Franks crew will be back together. But I’ll be honest – I miss my older two younguns. I know they’ll...
Thursday Three For All
It’s Not About The Dream. My older two kids cut their teeth on Veggie Tales. This is a refreshing interview with Phil Vischer, who looks back at the veggies’ slippery slope to moralism. (HT Trevin...
Make it Personal.
This is part four in the Five Plumb Lines series. Jump to the other posts at the bottom of the page. Make it personal. I don’t care what size your church is. You can be...
Flashback Friday: Confessions of a Control Freak
If you’re new to these parts, we take Fridays off to kick back and throwback to an easier time when we wrote long and thoughtful blog posts and didn’t refer to ourselves as “we” all...
Thursday Three For All
Hospitality: More Than Greeters and Coffee. A much-needed reminder for those of us in the guest services biz. Sentimental hospitality emphasizes being nice and might describe the treatment you get at Disney World. Privatized hospitality is...
Creation Groans
As I type, it’s 11:15 PM. It’s been a long day. A full day. But what is on my mind now is not the random assortment of things that demanded my attention over the last...
Everything Speaks
This is part three in the Five Plumb Lines series. Jump to the other posts at the bottom of the page. Everything Speaks. We no longer live in a world where people expect (and even...
Flashback Friday: Lost in Translation
Absolutely no setup for this one today. This simply remains one of my favorite painfully awkward videos. Click here to read the original post.
