Killing the Culture of Entitlement
[This post is based on a sermon I preached at the Summit’s Brier Creek Campus. If you get the notion, you can listen to the entire message here.] It’s no secret that the Summit is...
Category: Learning Curve
Summer Reading List
Yes, yes. I realize that summer break is roughly 1/3 over. But I’m just now getting around to some vacation reading, which means I’m just now getting around to my sort of annual suggested reading...
“You Happy, Daddy?”
My little girl will turn three in August. She is the source of way too much laughter in our family. Her adorability seems to know no bounds, and she has her three big brothers, her...
Flashback Friday: Pride And Anxiety
Often when I pray, I’ll pray through 1 Peter 5:5-7 as a reminder of how to walk through my day: Clothe yourselves, all of you, with humility toward one another, for “God opposes the proud...
Breakfast & Biracial Families
This is my new favorite commercial on TV, for obvious reasons. The little girl is cute as a button, and reminds me of…I don’t know…somebody. But if you’ve been following the blogosphere, you know...
Flashback Friday: Overcharging for the Gospel
I own a 14 year old entrepreneur. Well, “entrepreneur” may be too nice of a word. “Con artist,” “swindler,” “shyster” … those are the words that more accurately describe my – ahem – entrepreneur. Austin has launched...
Flashback Friday: Your Preferences May Be The Problem
I’m a man with exquisite tastes. Well, that’s not entirely accurate. I’ve been known to polish off a bag of chips that are well past the expiration date. And also, I view high dining as...
Raise Ebenezer? Check.
Two weeks. Two. Glorious. Weeks. That’s what it’s been since the last post. In that time, my girl and I got away for a few days to celebrate twenty years of marriage. It was five...
Through a Glass Darkly
If you don’t live in the Triangle region of North Carolina, you may not know that this weekend we had unseasonably warm temperatures. And by “unseasonably warm” I mean that it really wasn’t all that...
Grow Small Before You Go Big
The best ministry leaders are dreamers. Huge visionaries. Think-ten-years-ahead kind of people. They know what the end result should look like, and they stack strategies and fund budgets and build teams to move the dream...
