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...
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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...
Thursday Three For All
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. Welcome to America…Now Speak English. (via @TimAStevens) Let the...
You Never Know Until You Ask
I’m not what you would call a late night TV fan. If it’s 11:30 and I get still, this old man is asleep. But that doesn’t mean I don’t appreciate late night TV. If only...
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...
Flashback Friday: This is Not Normal
Every Friday we dig into the archives and dust off an old post. If you haven’t read it, it’s new to you! Summit, let me remind you that this is not normal. What we’re seeing...
Thursday Three For All
The Frugal Wow: How Small Gestures Create Lasting Loyalty. (via @HelpScout) Around these parts we talk a lot about delivering memorable moments. But those of us in ministry have a default setting that screams “memorable + ministry...
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...
Ctrl Alt Delta
Last week I found myself on a Delta flight. Not “found myself” in an Eastern mysticism type thing, but…well, you get the picture. We’d been delayed at the gate (page 42 in the Delta manual),...
