The Nexus Project
I’m a big fan of student ministry, especially since I survived it. As a recovering Student Pastor, I can speak with some authority on the mind of that animal. They measure time not by the...
Author: Danny
One Year Later
On February 6, 2008, I flipped on the TV as I was getting ready to come into the office. Good Morning America was running a story about a tornado that had touched down in some...
Ministry Over Duty
Part of my job is to make sure people understand the why behind the what. I tell my teams often, I care very little if they know the 12 points of their job description. What...
Salvation by Super Bowl?
You don’t have to hang around me long to know that I’m not the saltiest french fry in the Happy Meal when it comes to sports. Sure, I played growing up, if you define “play”...
Believe: An Inside Look
If you missed yesterday at the Summit, run, don’t walk, to our sermon download center and carve out some time to listen up (the message will be up sometime today). Pastor J.D. pulled the lid...
It’s Friday, But Sunday’s Coming
That’s right, I just had an 80’s flashback and made a blog post title reference to a Tony Campolo book / sermon / and maybe a movie but I can’t confirm that. You won’t see...
Listen.
There’s an old joke about a guy who went to prison and ended up in a row of cells with all of the “lifers” … those guys who had been in the place since the...
Service Without Service
Not too long ago I heard an interview with Bill Price, co-author of The Best Service is No Service. The basic thesis of the book is that as a business / church / whatever-we-are, we should...
The Passive Pastor
On Sunday Pastor J.D. rock-n-rolled with the Cannonball series. One of the key points to the message was the truth of Acts 1:8, where Jesus told the disciples that the kingdom of God would not...
Extreme Home Breakdown
It’s been a busy weekend at the Franks household. So busy, in fact, that coming back to the Grand Central Station we call the Summit offices is looking pretty dang good. This was the weekend...
