Flashback Friday: Repackaging Religion
It’s Flashback Friday, kiddies, and around this corner of the webosphere that means that I scour back through the archives, dust off an old post, and repackage it for you. Which, after you read today’s...
Category: Learning Curve
What’s Your Preferred Communication Gateway?
If you need me to do something for you, the best way to get ‘er done is to send me an email. You can send me a text, but it’ll likely get buried and forgotten....
Thursday Three For All: Productivity Edition
Let’s ease into the 2014 edition of the ol’ blog, shall we? (Yes. We shall.) It’s a new year, and new years mean new resolutions, new resolve, new get-out-there-and-kick-your-day-in-the-face type of stuff that will cause...
Ministry Grid Launches
Earlier this year I told you about Ministry Grid, an online training tool that will help you take church leadership development to a new level. I’m honored to be a small part of the Ministry...
So, “Atheist Megachurches” Are Apparently A Thing
Saw this article over the weekend in USA Today. The AP reports that “dozens of gatherings” of atheists are popping up across the U.S. after gaining ground in Britain. Here’s a clip: Hundreds of atheists...
Just Get Out Of The Way
Yesterday on my way home from church, I had an experience that was so surreal, so otherworldly, that I just wanted to keep driving around for a while in order to extend the moment (but...
Believing Forgetters
Last week our staff team celebrated communion together, as we do each month. It’s one of my favorite times of worship here at the Summit, a time when none of us are worrying with weekend...
Flashback Friday: The Futility of Balance
From the archives: There will be days…weeks…months where I have to give an inordinate amount of time to the church or to ministry. But there will also be times that are relatively calm. Both are...
Marketing or Serving? (part one)
Clayton Greene is the First Impressions Director at the Summit’s Brier Creek Campus, Sunday North Venue. You oughta follow him on Twitter. In his book on work, Every Good Endeavor, Tim Keller says the gospel teaches...
No Insignificant Jobs
“If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the...
