Flashback Friday: O Holy Night: The Mystery Revealed
This remains one of my all-time favorite Christmas songs. You owe it to yourself to click through to the links below and give ‘er a listen… For the last eight or nine Christmases, the butchered...
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Thursday Three For All
It’s easy-peasy day around the blog, where I put up cool links and you click ’em. Hey, I’m just here to serve. The One Minute Change That Will Transform Your Company. Or your church. It’s about...
Get To vs. Guilted To
One of our volunteer plumb lines is that you should serve because you get to, not because you’re guilted to. There’s a world of difference between those two words. Guilted to people sign up to serve in the nursery even...
Why You Should Serve This Christmas
Unless you’ve been hiding out under a rock for the last few weeks, you know that our church is presenting Christmas at DPAC (Durham Performing Arts Center) on December 23-24. It’ll be five big services that...
Joy To Her World
I snapped this yesterday, during a quiet Sunday afternoon where Haven was having her yuletide world rocked. This year she’s all about The Polar Express. She calls it the “Magic Train.” When the opening credits...
Flashback Friday: “We Don’t Do Comfortable.”
E’ry Friday, I scrape a couple of layers of strata off of the archaeological archives. Today, I dug up a post that just got me riled up all over again. Actually, it might have riled...
Thursday Three For All
TGIT? You betcha. Here are three things that I’ve had my eyes on this week (click the header links to read the full articles). Broken Events. Every single pastor and every single speaker and every single...
What Story Are You Telling?
If you’ve read this blog for a few seconds you know that I’m a freakishly huge Disney fan. Not the type of fan where I have a Captain Hook costume in my closet and the...
How to Complain
Preface: if you’re a pastor (or you’re a human), you’re going to receive criticism. And if you’re a pastor (or you’re human), you’re going to give criticism. So if you’re gonna do it, you might...
A Tree Grows in Durham
Meticulous research has shown me that there are two kinds of people in this world: (1) those who like the predictability and practicality of an artificial Christmas tree, and (2) insane people. For 19 years,...
