Lessons from failure
This post is the 3rd in a three part series on my Leadership Failures in Church Planting. The first two posts can be viewed, here and here. As I said in part 1, worse than failure is the failure to learn from failure, and learn plenty I did. Below are a few things I learned […]
Leadership failures in Church Planting (part 2)
Earlier this week I posted the first of two parts in Leadership Failures in Planting. You can read that post here. Today I want to continue by giving you the other six reasons our plant failed from a leadership perspective. I launched us without enough preparation While our core group had been meeting for several months […]
Leadership failures in Church Planting (part 1)
It has taken me five years to write this. It has taken me five years to come to a place healthy enough to admit without qualification, I failed. Why, without qualification? From the very day after we closed De Soto Community Church, the first and only church I have planted; the first church I literally […]
The Move
We live in a great house; Midcentury modern, open floor plan, wood floors, lots of light, plenty of space. We live in a great house in a great neighborhood; brick paved streets, awesome neighbors, short walk to amazing coffee and Allen Fieldhouse, (Rock Chalk), and close to the highway. We live in a great house, […]
Family Mission
*This post is coauthored by Matt and Jessica I (Jessica) admit I like to be organized and have a plan. I plan and write down everything… And this always proves to be helpful. We (as a society) make lists for the grocery store, house projects, ideal vacation spots… So it always amazes me a little […]
Richard Foster
“Everyone thinks of changing the world, but where are those who think of changing themselves? People may genuinely want to be good, but seldom are they prepared to do what it takes to produce the inward life of goodness that can form the soul. Personal formation into the likeness of Christ is arduous and lifelong”
Common Prayer
“Perhaps one of the sure signs that we have worshiped God is that we walk away saying, ‘I didn’t understand everything that happened there. It must be bigger than my comprehension.’ Too much of our worship has boxed God in as if we were going to see a play on Broadway. But in worship we become a part of the play. Though we can’t understand it all, we can come onstage and participate in the divine drama”
Common Prayer 1/22/2013
“The world is going mad in mutual extermination, and murder, considered as a crime when committed individually, 
becomes a virtue when it is committed by large numbers. It is the multiplication of the frenzy that assures impunity to the assassins.”-Cyprian of Carthage (200-258 A.D.)
Kaleidoscopic Faith
“The Christian faith is kaleidoscopic, and most of us are color-blind. It is multidimensional, and most of us manage to hold at most two dimensions in our heads at any one time. It is symphonic, and we can just about whistle one of the tunes”
-N.T. Wright in the forward to The King Jesus Gospel, by Scot McKnight