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Yesterday morning one of “The Ladies” asked me for some chocolate milk. Because she had not yet eaten breakfast, I told her “No.” She folded her arms, looked deep into my eyes, and said, “Dad, I’m not impressed with you.” Huh?
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Reading this morning from David Putman’s book, Breaking the Discipleship Code, I came across a quote worth sharing, Why do we as followers of Jesus, think we have to have all the answers? I believe this is the difference between having a relationship with Jesus and practicing a religion. If you are interested in a [...]
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Right now I’m sitting in the next to last Church Planter’s Coaching Network meeting. Today we’re going to discuss the last of the five “Best Practices” – Financing the Mission. Churchplanters.com teaches that the five “Best Practices” are: Be mean about the vision Think team Nurture vitality Re-think discipleship Finance the mission You can read [...]
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Gosh, it’s almost “Go-Time” for us! I can’t wait! So much is happening so quickly that occasionally I like to write it down to keep it straight; it also serves as a journal for us to look back on someday. We have ten people from Mountain Lake Church signed up to come to Cincinnati on [...]
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Sherri and I keep a “Domestic Detail” list. It is simply a breakdown of all of the chores to be done around the house with a name attached to each chore. It’s really not a very “sexy” list so we jazzed it up a bit with a cool name. Yesterday I heard a funny take [...]
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Reading from Vance Trimble’s biography of Sam Walton this morning I found a great description of what keeps great leaders great. David Glass, who would someday become the CEO of Wal-Mart, had just watched Sam Walton pull off a TERRIBLE store opening in Harrison, Arkansas. After observing the fiasco, he said, “It was the worst [...]
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Last night Jeff and I had a great dinner, met a lot of new friends, and heard some exciting stories about how God is working in and through the local church across the nation. As we sat with the guys from ARC three themes stood out: These are generous people. From the moment we walked [...]
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Today Jeff and I are leaving “on a jet plane” for Texas. There we will be meeting with a group of pastors from ARC (Association of Related Churches). Our purpose is two-fold: networking with some guys who are getting it done and fundraising. One of the great experiences I have had over these last months [...]
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Nelson Searcy has finally gotten into the blogosphere. He is a systems genius and someone that I am constantly learning from. He has a couple of posts worth checking out: A free overview of systems in the church When to challenge the system is a great post in which Nelson identifies three times to review [...]
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My friend Chris Reeder has asked the question, “What advice would you give to a guy that has been called into church planting, but sometimes feels that he has no idea what he is doing?” He asked a bunch of church planters and soon-to-be church planters what they thought. So far the list includes: Pete [...]
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