Month: May 2008

Balcony Time

Being away for a few days has been great for me and my family. God has given me tons of ideas for tweaking our systems and a few new ideas that will make us more effective. It’s hard to be creative or even to be objective when you’re in the grind. Ronald Heifetz in the… Continue reading Balcony Time

These are the Breaks

So Mark and Bill went home. The conference is over and now the vacation starts. I am a firm believer in taking breaks. The first 4 years of our church I rarely took time off. Looking back, it was very unhealthy and ended up hurting the church more than helping it. So I have decided… Continue reading These are the Breaks

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Saddleback Conference Day 2

– Great day today! – I enjoyed the sessions, especially Rick’s session on preaching – Met a lot of people today. That was fun. I don’t get to hang out with other Pastors a lot, so it was very refreshing to hear stories about what God is doing in other parts of the U.S. –… Continue reading Saddleback Conference Day 2

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Saddleback Conference Day 1

– I’m exhausted (running on 4 hours sleep and still not adjusted to Pacific time) – Rick’s 2 sessions were outstanding! – I am blown away by his love for Jesus, love for the Bible and love for Pastors – Got to catch up with a bunch of guys I hadn’t seen in a while… Continue reading Saddleback Conference Day 1

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Sunday Stuff…

– Today was great! – We had a couple of technical issues, but I doubt more than a few noticed – Crowd was really into the message – I felt “on” today from the get-go – I’m loving our “Frequency” series – Vocalzone is still rockin’ my world – my throat feels great after 3… Continue reading Sunday Stuff…

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The Twitter Experiment

I don’t know if I’m going to like this, but I’m testing out Twitter. If you want to follow what I’m doing, here’s the link…

What is Deep? What is Shallow?

I believe there’s a misnomer in the church. It’s the definition of deep or shallow preaching. Deep preaching gets defined as doctrinal and shallow preaching is defined as applicational. I think we have our definitions wrong. Shallow preaching is when a speaker tells you what the text means, but fails to tells you what the… Continue reading What is Deep? What is Shallow?

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