Attitude Won’t Last
In case you haven’t seen the viral video of the week, it’s worth the 2:28 it’ll take you to watch it. (Go ahead. I’ll wait.) Apollos Hester is my new hero. I’d like to sit...
Category: Learning Curve
My Ultimate Connections Reading & Resource List
Connections Ministry is a weird beast. Poor Connections Pastors are even weirder. There aren’t as many of us as…say…student pastors, which are consistently available in multi-packs at your local seminary or Bible college (return policies may vary). And...
Keeping the Maine Thing the Maine Thing
A couple of weeks back I spent the weekend in Maine, officiating a wedding. Yes: it’s an awful job, but someone has to do it. Maine has always been on my travel bucket list, so...
Michael Brown is your neighbor.
This week, all eyes are on Ferguson, Missouri, where an unarmed black man was killed by a policeman last Saturday. As I write, I’m grieved. Grieved over a broken family. Grieved over a broken community. Grieved...
The Problem with a Well Oiled Machine
If you’ve been around the church world a while, you may have heard someone refer to your ministry as the proverbial “well oiled machine.” Sure, you know the loose screws and the rusty bolts and the...
Insert Your Own Sermon Illustration
Before we get started, you’re going to want to watch this video to set the context (HT @LaughingSquid). (And if you’re reading via an RSS feed or email subscription, you’ll wanna click here.) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJ_3BN0m7S8 The...
The Problem With Outside The Lines
The road in front of our neighborhood has been undergoing a facelift lately. They scraped it, then paved it, then paved it again. Then set up cones. Then more pavement. Then…you get the picture. It’s...
Flashback Friday: Roundabout Living
Yesterday on the commute to work, I heard a story on the radio about a German woman who got stuck in a roundabout, which is a transportation term that literally means, “Our city is too...
Stories vs. Statistics
Last week was vacation week for the Franks family. And like all good vacations, I had time to catch up on a backlog of reading (I also watched Dawn of the Prequel to the Sequel of...
Don’t Just See The Cost
My mom was a wise woman. She always knew the right thing to say and the right time to say it. (That was mainly because I was her favorite child and she loved me more...
