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...
Author: Danny
First Time Guest Bags: An Intro
An updated version of this post can be found here. Why a First Time Guest bag? For several years now we’ve handed out a small gift bag to all of our first-time guests (FTGs). There...
Announcing the Connections Workshop: Guest Services
UPDATE (March 15): the April 22 event is now at capacity, but we’ve added another event on June 17. Sign up for email updates, or keep an eye on the blog / Twitter for the...
2015: A Look Back
This weekend in our services at the Summit, we took some time to celebrate what God did last year. To be honest, I view a video like the one below and it’s hard to wrap...
Flashback Friday: Nobody Cares About Your Rules
Every Friday I dig into the archives and dust off an old post. If you haven’t read it, it’s new to you! I have a theory about Church People. I’m allowed to have theories about...
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...
Beware the Emotional Postmortem
We’re just coming out of a two day conference our church hosted for almost 200 pastors. That conference was immediately followed by an all-church event that brought a couple thousand people together to talk about...
Don’t Waste Your Guinea Pig
In 1940, an Australian pathologist named Howard Florey conducted a clinical trial to examine the effect of penicillin on mice. He injected eight mice with deadly bacteria, and followed up with a penicillin treatment on...
Letting Your Rep Take The Rap
I’m not saying it was one of my prouder moments. I recently opened the email that heralded the arrival of my monthly cable bill. One glance told me that something was fishy in the state...
Flashback Friday: Filter Your Focus
Every Friday I dig into the archives and dust off an old post. If you haven’t read it, it’s new to you! Over the last couple of months I’ve read two or three books that...
