Every Friday I dig into the archives and dust off an old post. If you haven’t read it, it’s new to you! Like death, taxes, and Donald Trump, Easter is a reality. The good news is it’s a better reality than those other …
Category: Outta Here
2 years ago
Flashback Friday: Practical Ways to Prep for Easter
3 years ago
Christmas at DPAC: Day One
The Lord is good, my friends. Yesterday kicked off the first two of five Christmas services at the Durham Performing Arts Center. If you keep up with eastern seaboard weather trivia (and who doesn’t?), you may know that the Triangle area had flash floods …
3 years ago
Christmas at DPAC: A Few Ways To Pray
This post originally appeared on December 22, 2015. As this post goes live on Tuesday morning, a small battalion of volunteers will be gathering at the Durham Performing Arts Center. We’ll be unloading trucks, setting up the venue, and preparing for five services …
3 years ago
Together For Adoption 2015
Next month the church where I serve (The Summit Church) will be hosting Together for Adoption 2015: a like-minded gathering of people with a heart for orphans and an eye towards the fatherless. T4A’s impact in the world of orphan care is incalculable. Their …
3 years ago
For Them
Churches are notorious for building the kingdom. That seems like a good thing, until you realize that it’s not the kingdom with a capital “K” that the Bible talks about. Rather, it’s our own corporate kingdoms that we outfit with our amenities, our creature …
4 years ago
Gaining By Losing: a Review
My pastor wrote a book. Another one. This makes four, if you’re not counting The Adventures of Tripod the Three-Legged Dog, which was a graphic novel he penned in fourth grade, according to a fact that I just made up. But before I get to …
4 years ago
Vision Weekend 2015
No doubt about it: one of my favorite things we do all year at the Summit is our annual Vision Weekend. It’s a look back at God’s faithfulness. A look ahead at his promises. And a look around at all of the incredible things …
4 years ago
Like a Good Neighbor…
In an earlier post I mentioned that last weekend, churches all over the map experienced a significant attendance bump as vacations ended and schedules got back to normal. That was especially true at The Bridge Church in Wilmington, NC. The Bridge is a recent …
4 years ago
Why We Do Christmas At DPAC
We’re neck-deep in last-minute planning for one of the largest events we do all year. Christmas at DPAC takes months of planning, miles of cable, tons of lights, our entire staff team, and some 1,300 volunteers to prepare for the 10,000 plus guests that will …
4 years ago
Christmas at DPAC 2014
Yes, I know, we’re still two days shy of Thanksgiving and I’m talking Christmas, but as that great theologian Taylor Swift says, haters gonna hate hate hate hate hate. I’m pretty excited about our third year back at the Durham Performing Arts Center. Five …