I’ve started two churches in my life and both times there were occasions in the beginning when I could put the entire church in my car and take them out to eat…

I find myself increasingly using web apps for all sorts of tasks. Some are for new tasks and some replace desktop apps I’ve been using for years. I thought I’d share my current favorites with you guys.

I like Daniel Pink’s stuff a lot.  I thoroughly enjoyed this short presentation he did at a Global TED gathering.  I think everybody that leads someone else (business leaders, church leaders, family leaders, etc) ought to watch this.

This backs up my own experience as being a pastor.  External motivators just don’t work in the long-run.  I’m sure there’s a place [...]

Any movement, cause, church or organization can only last so long by simply saying what they are against.  That will eventually wear a little thin.  The motivation of being against something will inevitably begin to wane.  It just won’t last.  It can’t last.  At some point, every movement, cause, church or organization must take a stand and state clearly what [...]

I hate labels. They tend to reduce people to mere terms and phrases inside of looking at them as the unique creations that they are. As bad as they can be, there is something a lot worse…a label maker.

I’m concerned that too many pastors in the church planting scene are trying to look like rock stars. I know that I sound like a stick in the mud and I’m certainly not known as a fashion icon or anything so perhaps I don’t know what I’m talking about but the more I hang around church planters the more I’m seeing this trend…

I fundamentally believe you can learn something from almost anybody.  That being said, I worry sometimes about who we label as experts in the Christian community.
I remember years ago reading a book about church leadership by a Christian “expert” only later to discover that this man, who had been telling me how to lead a church, had NEVER been a [...]

It doesn’t matter what they say about you.  It doesn’t matter what they think.  It doesn’t matter if they’ve discounted you or written you off.  It doesn’t matter if they believe in you or the dream that God placed in your heart.  All that matters is whether or not God called you to do it.  If He did, if He [...]

Church planters and pastors, please listen to me.  You are NOT Gary Lamb.  You’re not Steven Furtick or Ed Young either.
I’ve been blessed to know Gary Lamb for many years now.  He’s an amazing man and gifted leader that pastors an incredible church.  Gary built that church with God’s help out of nothing and I am as proud of him [...]

I believe that the two greatest enemies of effective leadership are anger and fear.  Fear will paralyze you or worse make you jump when you should stay put.  Anger will skew your judgment and fuel the worst motives and reactions.  That’s why God tells us to be slow to get angry AND he commands us to be strong and courageous [...]