Is Your Face Hurting You?
Middle school Danny was always a big fan of the is your face hurting you? question. If you’re not familiar with 7th grade boy jokes, let’s dig in: Is your face hurting you? Because it’s killing me!...
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Are Your Volunteers Instruments of Change?
Maybe you’ve noticed a phenomenon taking over your volunteer teams. It’s one that will suck the life out of your people and zap the personal touch from your systems. Too often our volunteers enter into...
Multiply: What’s Next?
I recognize that most of my readers are from outside the walls of The Summit Church, so this post may feel a little like reading someone else’s mail (spoiler: it kind of is). But this...
Flashback Friday: Nobody Brags About Being Mary
Every Friday I dig into the archives and dust off an old post. If you haven’t read it, it’s new to you! I have a love / hate relationship with Luke 10. If you...
Thursday Three For All: To-Do Lists, Podfasters, and David Letterman’s “Childhood Friends”
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...
Feeling Disconnected? Here’s a Fix.
Whatever size church you attend, there will come a point where you feel left out. Unknown. Like you don’t have the friendships and relationships you’re craving. Feeling connected isn’t correlated to size. It seems counterintuitive,...
What It Takes To Be A Leader…
…is that you need to be a couple of steps ahead of those you’re leading. There’s more to leadership than that, of course. The “two steps ahead” rule is the super-simplified, stripped-down version of Leadership...
How To Serve Guests When You’re Just Not Feeling It
No matter how much you love people, eventually the day will come when you literally can’t even. (Do the cool kids still say that?) The weather is too bad, your mood is too off, your...
Flashback Friday: Five Reasons Nobody Comes to Your Training
Every Friday I dig into the archives and dust off an old post. If you haven’t read it, it’s new to you! We’ve all been there: we have a volunteer training scheduled. We arrive early....
Thursday Three For All: Sutherland Springs and the Tears of Jesus, Lead from the Middle, and Recreated Triangle Solo
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...
