This year at Catalyst we are sitting on the theme “Be Present”. Holy crap. There is enough to unpack in that to have a 19 day conference. While we were brainstorming I blurted out… “How about church staff who live 40 miles away from their church campus? How can they Be Present?” Because lemme tell [...]
Sites like this are like watching a car wreck. I actually think it is healthy to have people who aren’t into your mojo let you know what is going good and bad on your Sundays. I did this once. Any of you old school Ragamuffins will remember. I got in trouble. I have actually fallen [...]
I was having a conversation with some new friends yesterday in Boise ID. We got talking about The Church. A. Because I love talking about The Church. B. Because there is SO much unrest in what actually “The Church” means. People place words before church like… Postmodern Experiential House Mega and so on… I think [...]
Chandler and Furtick from Harvest Bible Chapel on Vimeo. Many of us have seen this exchange between Chandler and Furtick. I actually don’t like this clip because it doesn’t show the full exchange which is exactly Furticks point about hearing his whole sermon. It leaves me not interested in either one’s opinion since, obviously, their [...]
You’ve probably heard this… I just finished his book… And I actually believe what Rob Bell says in this soundbite after reading the book. But I don’t know Rob Bell, so who am I to judge his soul? Have you read it and what do you think of this clip? Los Los
Easter is upon us. Time for mass mailings, dropping dime on a few more lights and truss, and crushing about 5 more services than usual back. Good Friday service where we rock it sad. The Easter services where we celebrate the empty cross and add some brass to our services. But was the empty cross [...]
I’m just pissed he stole my sermon. But I Forgive him… Los [ht:Bunk]
I caught this entire sermon before I went to bed at 2 am last night. I put on my pajama pants before getting in bed… “Turn to your neighbor and say…Friend, pull yo pants up…” “You can’t help but notice the number of African American men who wear their pants below their buttocks…” “God did [...]
People come and go in our churches. Which in all actuality is rather traumatic. For them. Not for the church staff of course. But for the attender. They grow to love and be a part of our church and then a job, a relationship, or any number of things moves them away. In all actuality, [...]
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