Serve Him, Not Them.
Around these parts, we talk a lot about serving our guests as well as our members. And that’s a great concept, as long as people behave themselves. When they don’t complain about the parking, when...
Category: Learning Curve
2011 Summer Reading List: Mine
I have a confession to make: I’m a book hoarder. I’m not necessarily my-own-show-on-TLC level. Nope, I don’t have a strategically mapped path in between piles of Piper and Packer. There are no mountains of...
2011 Summer Reading List: Yours
Oprah has left the building. Oh, I know. She’s coming back. The Great One will soon reincarnate on her own OWN station and be more incredibly enlightening than ever before. But for now, she hasn’t...
Staff Infection
It all started with The Nines. As you may recall, The Nines is an annual event that started on 9/9/09. Leadership Network invites church leaders from around the country to submit nine minute videos for...
Keller? Stellar.
Here in Ye Olde Triangle area, we’re hosting the gospel gangsta known as Tim Keller. He’s coming in this week for Advance ’11, and local theologians are so giddy they almost dropped their ESV Study...
The Great Exchange
My sin. His holiness. My sorrow. His joy. My works. His grace. My shame. His glory. My wounds. His scars. My selfishness. His kindness. My pride. His humility. My self-righteousness. His gift of righteousness. My...
Above the Clouds
Last week I spent some time talking about guest services with a church in the great state of Arkansas (official motto: “It Always Rains When Danny Is In The Great State Of Arkansas”). When I...
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...
What Are You Really Revealing?
My friend Katie Baker wrote a world-class post on dress and modesty. She said what every pastor wants to say from the stage, but can’t. Won’t. Skeered to. Whatever. The reason that I’m glad Katie...
Problematic Cling
The more I understand the gospel, the more I understand that I don’t really understand the gospel. The ol’ blog has been quiet as of late. At first it was for the usual reasons: busier...
