Vision & Thanksgiving
Last night was our church’s annual Vision Night. It’s a time we look forward to every year as we gather to celebrate what God has done, and look with anticipation to what he is going...
Category: Learning Curve
Preparing for the Onslaught
We’re in the middle of the fall attendance surge here at the Summit. College students are back, families are returning from summer vacations, and people from the community are hitting one of the two times...
The Not-So-Secret Leadership Principles of Chick-Fil-A
A few weeks ago I was invited to attend Chick-Fil-A’s Customer Appreciation Night here in Raleigh-Durham. Dan Cathy, President and COO of my favorite chicken chain, was in town and we were going to party till...
Flashback Friday: Secondary Issues
Flashback Friday is back after its summer vacation. Today’s journey in the wayback machine actually opens up a rabbit hole of sorts to a week-long Audience Participation Week series, where commenters chose three random words...
Flashback Friday: Confessions of a Control Freak
If you’re new to these parts, we take Fridays off to kick back and throwback to an easier time when we wrote long and thoughtful blog posts and didn’t refer to ourselves as “we” all...
Creation Groans
As I type, it’s 11:15 PM. It’s been a long day. A full day. But what is on my mind now is not the random assortment of things that demanded my attention over the last...
Book Review: How to Wow
You only have to be a semi-regular reader of this blog to know that I’m a big proponent of just about anything Mark Waltz writes on the subject of guest services. Mark was a Connections...
Flashback Friday: Creating Space
Jumping in the Wayback Machine in 3…2… [O]ver the last two days I have read well over 500 pages of books, sat through nine hours of meetings and conversations, typed up 11 single-spaced pages of...
Thursday Three For All
Thursday is the day where there’s no original content here on the blog. Well, unless you count this week, when I’ve been in a Gospel Summit induced coma and have done nothing productive up to...
Flashback Friday: Resources
We’re wrapping up a two day conference called The Gospel Summit. It has been an incredibly energizing experience to be with and learn from more than 300 pastors and ministry leaders from across the country....
