For my reading for my last seminar, I choose two of John Maxwell’s volumes on leadership that I had not read previously. Through this reading, I learned some valuable lessons concerning leadership. The first lesson was concerning influence. In Developing the Leader Within You, Maxwell wrote, “Leadership is influence. That’s it. Nothing more, nothing less.” Since I have influence, I …
I don’t know what I love more about this sign: the message or the pastor’s name. Anyway, this week’s bad church sign of the week states: “Tithe if you love Jesus! Anyone can honk!” While this sign is reacting to the bumper stickers that state, “Honk if you love Jesus,” this church sign reveals either a church struggling to make …
I once read a quote from John Hancock Field in a great point concerning accomplishments. Field stated, “All worthwhile men have good thoughts, good ideas, and good intentions, but precious few of them ever translate those into action.” This thought truly resonated with my current work. I feel as if our church has never had so many opportunities to reach …
Today was the first day of the “Crossroads” series. The message topic was “The Jewish Faith.” The praise band did great today. It is such an honor to be led by worship by those guys and gal. Their exaltation of Jesus being the only way led to my message in such a simple way. The message got across before the …
John Maxwell once wrote, “When I have integrity, my words and my deeds match up.” As a leader, it is possible to confuse influence with actual integrity. Just because my reputation with people is positive does not mean that my character before a holy God naturally corresponds. I desire that what those around me perceive of my character line up …
Three of the major world religions all claim the same source of beginning. Judaism, Christianity, and Islam all hold Abraham to be the man from whom their religion began. But all three of these religions arrive at a dramatic crossroads at the person of Jesus Christ. The message, ministry, and life of Christ forever separated these movements. The Crossroads series …
I had fun last night speaking at Anderson University’s FCA. I took Brian with me for prayer support and a time of C-Group sharpening, and we had a blast up there and back. Being on campus made me nostalgic thinking about picking up Amanda for dates in Anderson when she was in college there. Man, I am glad we are …
This week’s bad church sign states: “Will you go through God’s roadblock called salation into hell?” A friend sent this one to me and commented that the title of this church is quite humorous since they misspelled salvation. Funny stuff.
As I woke up this morning, I thought that the “Marriage by the Book” series was what we have been looking for as a church. Not only was the content right on, but the whole effort was so quality due to God’s leading and his servants responding. We did pray that some marriages would be saved through this series. I …
Today was our last Sunday in our Marriage by the Book series. What a great day and what a great series! In our team prayer time this morning, we prayed that some marriages that were hanging on by a thread would be saved this day, and I believe they were. I would like to give props to Walt, Kimberly, Joshua, and …
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