Prepared and Authentic
We’re celebrating our first ever Guest Blogger Week here on the blog. Today’s post comes courtesy of Clayton Greene, my former team member and current Executive Pastor of The Bridge Church in Wilmington, NC. Clayton is...
We’re celebrating our first ever Guest Blogger Week here on the blog. Today’s post comes courtesy of Clayton Greene, my former team member and current Executive Pastor of The Bridge Church in Wilmington, NC. Clayton is...
We’re celebrating our first ever Guest Blogger Week here on the blog, and we’re kicking it off with my friend Steven Murray, Director of Communications at Houston’s First Baptist Church.He’s been in that role for nine...
Every Friday I dig into the archives and dust off an old post. If you haven’t read it, it’s new to you! All of us are familiar with the term “Bless your heart.” Most...
I am a long-time, loyal customer to a particular bank. I won’t name them here, because I have a practice where I don’t identify the negative examples I share on the blog, and because I don’t...
This morning I’m gathering for the final time with a group of leaders who have become my friends. We’ve spent the last few months together looking at Connections Ministry from every possible facet. It has...
Every Friday I dig into the archives and dust off an old post. If you haven’t read it, it’s new to you! Churches seem to live in the culture of “yes”: “Yes, we’ll start...
It’s hard to believe that in a couple of weeks we’ll be hosting the last of four spring gatherings called “Connections Confab.” We launched in February with fourteen leaders from twelve churches in NC,...
My buddy Mike Waddey and I have been friends for nigh unto a quarter century. It was a hot July day in 1991 when two rail-skinny kids showed up for freshman orientation at Union University....
Every Friday I dig into the archives and dust off an old post. If you haven’t read it, it’s new to you! Sunday. The grocery store. A quick stop on the way home from church...
Sometimes, the rain falls. And when it falls on a weekend, it’s never a good thing. Outdoor plans get rescheduled, yard work gets postponed, and church people get cranky. Church people don’t like rain; especially...