Don’t Parenthood Your Weekend
As I type, my wife Merriem is watching a Parenthood marathon on TV. Yes, that Parenthood: the series that went off the air in 2015, the one she’s already watched in its entirety and then some, and the one...
Category: First Impressions
Flashback Friday: What Helps Them?
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 our rules of thumb for our First Impressions team is Be...
How Do Outsiders View Your Inside?
It’s pretty easy for us to think about what we think about when we think about the weekend experience at our churches (feel free to re-read that sentence. I won’t be offended.). After all, they’re our experiences....
Flashback Friday: How to Spot a First Time Guest
Every Friday I dig into the archives and dust off an old post. If you haven’t read it, it’s new to you! How do you distinguish a seasoned member of your church from one who’s...
Flashback Friday: Interrogate Your Guests
Every Friday I dig into the archives and dust off an old post. If you haven’t read it, it’s new to you! This post title is what you would call “hyperbole.” When guests show up...
Flashback Friday: Say It? Do It.
Every Friday I dig into the archives and dust off an old post. If you haven’t read it, it’s new to you! Sometimes church people have the best intentions and the worst follow through: “I’m...
The High Cost of Doing Nothing
Making a change in the way you do ministry can be frightening. Overwhelming. Even paralyzing. There are new budget lines to be reckoned with, new volunteers to recruit, new manuals to be written, and new...
The Cloak of Invisibility
As restaurant experiences go, this one was pretty awful. It was a Sunday afternoon. Five of the six Franks family members were in attendance at a less-than-half-full joint that we’ve been to several times. The...
You Know What To Do, But…
I’m taking a little down time this week, including a brief blogging break. Meanwhile, I’m reaching back into the archives for posts that even I forgot I’d written. (Feel free to insert your own “forgettable”...
Represent
I’m taking a little down time this week, including a brief blogging break. Meanwhile, I’m reaching back into the archives for posts that even I forgot I’d written. (Feel free to insert your own “forgettable”...
