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Today was a day of reflection for me. A few things in particular have been on my mind: It is good to be married to Sherri. It is good to have a family in which expressions of love and gratefulness are common. It is good to be loved by friends. It is good to live [...]
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“Throughout the history of the church the greatest preachers have been those who have recognized that they have no authority in themselves and have seen their task as being to explain the words of Scripture and apply them clearly to the lives of their hearers. [...] Essentially they stood in the pulpit, pointed to the [...]
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This morning Sherri and I had our weekly “Coin and Calendar” meeting. Every Friday (our day off) we have a scheduled time to work our system. Our system looks like this: Enter all receipts in the checkbook Balance the checkbook Enter the receipts on our Spending Plan (budget) so that we can track each line [...]
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Yesterday I sat in Barnes and Nobles for an hour and read from Wayne Grudem’s Systematic Theology. I sipped some Starbucks, nodded off occasionally, and thoroughly enjoyed myself. It is important to read and study theology. Theology is simply what we believe about God and the world as it relates to God. We all have [...]
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Money has never been a big deal for me. In fact, it’s probably not been bright enough on my radar. Over the last seven months I’ve been paying a lot of attention to finances for two reasons: Personally: Living on less requires that I manage better what I have been entrusted with! Starting a church [...]
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This morning I finished Nelson Searcy and Jennifer Dykes Hinson’s book Fusion, and now I am a happy man! This book will shape our assimilation system at Walls Down Church. If you are interested in assimilating people into your church you must read and apply this book! Nelson has broken the assimilation process down into [...]
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On the value of practice, Tony always looked back to a lesson from his father, “Like my dad always said, the test would be easier if you did what you were supposed to do in class every day. Practice was where we did our job.” You and your team are not the first to experience [...]
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What do all three of these have in common? Warren Bennis and Burt Nanus, in their book Leaders, “interviewed and observed” ninety leaders; “Sixty [interviews] with successful CEOs, all corporate presidents or chairmen of boards, and thirty with outstanding leaders from the public sector.” They were seeking to identify commonalities in successful leaders. They write, [...]
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