Click on my picture to be a friendOne of the “Best Practices” that Shawn Lovejoy and David Putman talk about all the time is “being mean about the vision.”
After talking with these guys, and “doing life” around them I can tell you a few things about “being mean about the vision”:
It has nothing to do with being a jerk and everything to [...]
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Thank you to all of you who have been praying for our family in these days of the “valley of the shadow of death.”
Some updates:
Tonight (Thursday) is the viewing.
Tomorrow is the funeral and the last “goodbye” to little Ethan.
Some reflections:
Perhaps the most commonly asked question I get, as a pastor, at funerals is, “Can he/she [...]
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Reading from The Leadership Secrets of Billy Graham this morning and came across a great quote,
Failure is the inevitable companion of a large vision. No one can take on a significant and difficult challenge without stumbling a few times. The important thing is how we respond. The goal is not a fail-safe record but a [...]
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The Walls Down logo has received some cool recognition from Kent Shaffer of churchrelevance.com. He writes,
A good logo design is…
Distinctive. Memorable. And timeless.
It is aesthetically pleasing.
It is scalable, looking good while as large as a billboard or as small as a dime. It looks good in color as well as black and white. And it [...]
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One of the greatest struggles of leadership happens when you have to choose between a friend and the vision of your church/organization. When your friend disagrees with the vision what do you do? Do you acquiesce? Do you water down the vision? Do you change direction to “stay friends”? Let’s complicate it a bit shall [...]
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Yesterday as Sherri and I were on our way home from North Carolina she got a call. The kind of call you never want to get.
Yesterday around 6 p.m. Sherri’s younger sister’s 4 month old son, Ethan Ronald, passed away from SIDS (Sudden Infant Death Syndrome).
Who can explain these things?
There surely are no real good [...]
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Today Sherri and I stopped by the Billy Graham Library. It was not a planned visit, just something that occurred to us to do as we drove past the exit on route 85. As we walked onto the grounds it was almost as if we were walking onto holy ground and entering into a divine [...]
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Boxes, boxes, and more boxes…
Yelling at little girls for unpacking boxes… apologizing for yelling… helping repack the boxes…
Trying to figure out what goes, what gets tossed, what gets sold, and what gets given away…
Playing with little girls… helping them make the third move for two of them and a second move for the other two… [...]
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On Monday and Tuesday we participated in a “church planters assessment” with ARC (Association of Related Churches).
Here’s how it went down…
In the beginning of May we went to Austin, Texas for the CPR (Church Planter’s Roundtable) where we learned about the ARC planting philosophy and determine whether or not we wanted to pursue a relationship. [...]
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