Mosquitoes
Today kicks off Audience Participation Week, where I pick the topic and you pick three completely unrelated words that I have to work into the topic. Cheesy? Yes. Gimmicky? Sure. Challenging? So far, you betcha....
Author: Danny
Evil Picnickers Beware
Let me introduce you to Jase. He’s an army ant. You can tell he’s an army ant because he’s wearing a camouflage shirt a plastic helmet that’s approximately 1/16th of an inch thick and can...
Broken People
I’ve been with a lot of hurting people this week. Failed marriages, derailed relationships, deeply-entrenched sin, broken dreams, disturbing doctor’s reports, addictions that seemingly can’t be kicked. There’s one thing that serves as a common...
Audience Participation
Okay gang, you’ve been quiet as of late. Maybe 121 baptisms don’t excite you the way they excite me. Maybe you don’t think a prayer cross is funny. Maybe pictures of ducks don’t elicit the...
Stories From The Tank
On Sunday we baptized 121 people at the Summit. It was a very, very cool day, but days like that always bring questions… Why did you do it that way? Is that even biblical? Seriously?...
The Baptism Report
I’ve had my snarky friends remind me for the past 24 hours that I am a blogger in a Twitter world and that my tardiness in passing along numbers is a reflection of my real-time...
Our Father Who Art In Retail…
I saw this ad on TV the other night and I have six words for you: 163 shopping days until my birthday. Somebody’s gotta get me one of these. Favorite moments: :26 – the little...
Be. Aggressive. Be, Be Aggressive
Anybody else have that cheer at your high school? That might have been my second-to-least favorite cheer that our cheerleading squad had, coming in only after “It’s hot, it’s hot, it’s hot in here…there must...
Tell the Why
Your Why matters. You have to know it, your team has to know it, and you have to know that your team knows it. Here’s why you have to continuously repeat the Why… The Why...
Town Hall for Hope
Last Wednesday I watched in fascination as millions of Americans took to the streets to participate in “tea parties” – their official stamp of disapproval on paying taxes. I realized that if this pastor gig...
