Flashback Friday: Turn Your Leaders Loose
Every Friday I dig into the archives and dust off an old post. If you haven’t read it, it’s new to you! One of my First Impressions shift leaders snapped this picture on Sunday...
Category: First Impressions
Last Call for Confab
Not too long ago I announced plans for the fall version of the Connections Confab, a series of gatherings in August-November of this year designed to help you take your guest services / assimilation / covenant membership /...
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...
Why I Attended the Connections Confab
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...
Flashback Friday: Bless-Your-Heart Hospitality
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...
Your Policies are Dumb
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...
Why You Should Take Advantage of the Connections Confab
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...
Flashback Friday: You Can’t Always Get What You Want
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...
Connections Confab: The Return
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,...
A Tale of Two College Visits
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....
