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Ideas and insights for current church leaders from the on deck circle.
What to learn about learning
I’ve taken a couple weeks off from the blogging world. I left South Carolina and headed to Lexington, Kentucky where my family moved this summer, and have been going back and forth between Lexington and Clarksville where I’m from. I plan to be blogging regularly from here on out. Since I’ve been back home, the […]
Posted in: wisdom
Plastic football buzz moments
August 1, 2012
When I was in middle school and high school, the cheerleaders would occasionally do this thing during football games where they would come up into the stands and start throwing out little plastic footballs. I’m sure you’ve seen something similar to this. Every single time this happened, people who weren’t paying the least bit of […]
Posted in: leadership
What are you worth?
July 30, 2012
This is what the Lord says: What fault did your fathers find in Me that they went so far from Me, followed worthless idols, and became worthless themselves? Jeremiah 2:5 HCSB A few semesters ago I was reading through the book of Jeremiah and was amazed at some of the principles there are. I shouldn’t have been amazed, it is […]
Posted in: theology
A huge mistake when picking a name
July 26, 2012
Recently I got a mass email from Moody asking for help in naming a new campus program. They have this cool new idea they’re implementing, they just needed help picking a name. Now, I don’t mean to throw Moody under the bus with this post, but they just provided me with an excellent case study […]
Posted in: leadership
2 questions an audience wants to know
July 25, 2012
One of the coolest parts about my internship at Seacoast is getting to spend some time with Greg Surratt. He’s an incredible leader, and it’s a huge privilege getting to hang around him occasionally. Recently we were discussing worship services and he made an interesting statement. “When people walk into a room they want to […]
Posted in: church
Theology and church practice
July 23, 2012
My systematic theology professor last semester gave us an assignment that forced me to think critically about my theological convictions. The assignment was to take our view on a particular subject in systematic theology, and then analyze how our particular view should inform our ministry practice. For example: If I believe in the inerrancy of […]
Organic and positional leaders
July 18, 2012
As I’ve observed people and situations, I’ve noticed two different types of leaders. I’m sure some leadership expert has written extensively on this somewhere, but if they have, I haven’t read them. So, for the sake of this post I’m using my own terms for these two people: Organic Leaders and Positional Leaders. Organic leaders […]
Posted in: leadership
August 20, 2012
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