Gratitude begins where entitlement ends. Steven Furtick
Has Your Church Started to Die?
Has Your Church Started to Die? PlainJoe Studios www.plainjoestudios.com, tonymorganlive.com This excerpt from Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson’s recent book Rework keeps reverberating in my mind today: “When you stick with your current customers come hell or high water, you wind up cutting yourself off from new… Good stuff!
If you capture someone’s heart, you will eventually get his hands and feet as well. Andy Stanley (Deep and Wide)
Busyness as a Pastor
From A Contemplative Pastor by Eugene Peterson: I am busy because I am vain. I want to appear important. Significant. What better way than to be busy? The incredible hours, the crowded schedule, and the heavy demands on my time are proof to myself – and to all who will notice – that I am […]
HOW TO AVOID BEING A STATISTIC IN THE MINISTRY
From the Francis A. Schaeffer Institute of Church Leadership Development: Here is research that we distilled from Barna, Focus on the Family, and Fuller Seminary, all of which backed up our findings, and additional information from reviewing others’ research: •Fifteen hundred pastors leave the ministry each month due to moral failure, spiritual burnout, or contention […]
To refuse to pay my debts of gratitude is to live with an inflated view of myself. Andy Stanley
Have you ever noticed … When ANOTHER person ignores you, he is rude. When YOU ignore him, you are preoccupied with something more important. When ANOTHER person is set in his ways, he is stubborn. When YOU are set in your ways, you are being consistent and following your convictions. When ANOTHER person doesn’t like […]
The Best and Worst Question | Echo Hub
The Best and Worst Question | Echo Hub So good … the line that struck me the most is … I have a tendency to focus on what I’m producing rather than what is being produced in me. That’s a tension in what I do on a daily basis, because I’m producing so many things. This is […]
Mother’s Day Videos
We showed two videos in our services this morning for Mother’s Day. It book ended the sermon and added much to our service. Hope you enjoy them as well. Oh, and if you see some Asian kids in the second video, they might be my kids. 🙂