It continues to blow my mind, the doors that God opens. It happened again a month or so ago when I received an email from Todd Rhoades asking me to be a part of The Nines conference. I can’t believe I’m on this list, it is “in my weakness He is strong” in action. The [...]
Rick Warren quoted this today: Proverbs 31:8 (New International Version) 8 “Speak up for those who cannot speak for themselves, for the rights of all who are destitute. Which is ironically what I was doing with my open letter to Rick Warren. I don’t need to rehash that conversation, it was covered in length there. [...]
I’m going to bring some of this to my session at NRB (Escape from Planet Mundane: Flashing Beyond the Haze of Mediocre Media) as we talk about how to break through mediocrity. One of those is how to look beyond yourself and your world, and look to the edges, which is exactly what Andy talks [...]
Fox news is reporting that cattle seem to know how to find north and south and have an innate sense of direction. Of course I didn’t know that when I first decided on the name Holy Cow…but I’ll take it. I originally decided on the name as that’s what I want people to say and [...]
If you were like me and not able to make it out to Willow Creeks Leadership Summit this year, Kem has her 10 take-aways from the conference. Here are some highlights that caught my attention: 2. God, please rescue me from all things petty. 4. We have knowledge workers–people smarter than the leaders of the [...]
This video is SO funny…until it happens to you. Pastors, please lend me your ear. Be a pastor, be a leader…and realize that part of being a leader is letting those you have put in place use the ability God gave them to minister with. (aka. stop being a creative director) Trust me…the end result [...]
Can I be honest? Sometimes I skip the last part of the last chapter…the closing remarks…normally, at best, I tend to breeze through them. Not a good practice. That was proven today as I didn’t skip the last portion of 1 Corinthians. You know that the household of Stephanas were the first converts in Achaia, [...]
And his armor-bearer said to him, “Do all that is in your heart. Do as you wish. Behold, I am with you heart and soul.” 1 Samuel 14:7 I am an armor-bearer. The work that we do, I view as tools, weapons if you will, for the pastor, for the church to carry and use [...]