In the eastern North Carolina community of Elizabethtown, there’s a storefront restaurant called Melvin’s Hamburgers. It’s a classic hole in the wall joint, a place you normally wouldn’t stop unless you knew the treasures that awaited you inside....
Every Friday I dig into the archives and dust off an old post. If you haven’t read it, it’s new to you! Sometimes, we think too big: Big plans. Big dreams. Big ideas. We whip...
It’s Thursday, kiddies: the day when I roll out a few things I’ve been reading over the past week. Three of ‘em, to be exact. Enjoy. (Remember: click on the big bold print to read the...
An earlier version of this post originally appeared on August 20, 2012. The end of summer is nigh. If you are like most churches, you are only a few short weekends away from the fall...
An earlier version of this post originally appeared on June 19, 2013. When it comes to the question of volunteers, I think we’d all agree that you can never have too many. For most of...
Every Friday I dig into the archives and dust off an old post. If you haven’t read it, it’s new to you! …there I was a couple of weeks ago on the outskirts of Phoenix,...
It’s Thursday, kiddies: the day when I roll out a few things I’ve been reading over the past week. Three of ‘em, to be exact. Enjoy. (Remember: click on the big bold print to read the...
Eight years ago this month, the blogosphere got just a teensy bit more crowded with the debut of Connective Tissue. To celebrate, I’m releasing a free PDF download of my very first booklet, 5 Plumb Lines for...
The corporate gathering of believers serves many purposes: it is a family reunion. A time of mutual encouragement. A moment to join voices and minds and hands and hearts in order to proclaim the majesty...
Every Friday I dig into the archives and dust off an old post. If you haven’t read it, it’s new to you! It was roughly 1 PM on a Sunday afternoon. The place was largely...
