Church Stuff
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Leadership Lessons from Brian Moss
Yesterday I had lunch with Brian Moss, senior pastor of Oak Ridge Baptist Church in Salisbury. We had a great discussion and I gleaned some very helpful and practical insights from him. Some of the highlights: No two stages of church growth are the same. As a church grows larger, it must be led differently… Continue reading
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More On Love & Leadership
Every church is called to love. This particular congregation, I’m convinced, has a special calling to excel at love. There are several vital love relationships to consider: God’s love for us. Our love for God. Our love for others in the Church. God’s love for others in the Church. Our love for those outside the… Continue reading
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Love & Leadership
Lately my understanding of pastoral leadership has grown. Most of the books, conferences, etc. about church leadership seem to focus on skill, strategy, character, and stuff like that. But the one thing that is perhaps most important is usually not mentioned: you gotta love people. This has been on my mind a lot the past… Continue reading
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We’re Close to Having a New Church Name!
Welp, we’re getting close. Last night the Leadership Team at the church met and narrowed the field to two names: CrossWay Church and Beach Bible Church. We’re going to let the rest of the church choose the winner on Sunday. For the record, I’m going to shamelessly plug CrossWay Church. There’s so much we could… Continue reading
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The Skinny on the Church Name Search
Okay, the entries are all in…. Tomorrow night the Leadership Team is meeting to discuss a new name for the church. I’ve printed out a list of about 25-30 names, and I’m going to ask each person present to choose three from the list. From there we’ll narrow it to two names, which we’ll put… Continue reading
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Welcome to (Fill in the Blank) Church!
We have got to get a church name. For the second time in four days, I woke up this morning at 3:30 a.m. with my mind racing, trying to think of the right name. It makes for a long day when you sleep for three or four hours and wake up at 3:30! Here’s the… Continue reading
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Podcast (Hopefully) Coming Soon…
Our church will hopefully be podcasting very soon–and for less money than I’d expected. While the ideal scenario would be a Countryman mic with a CD recorder running through the sound board, I’ve discovered an alternative. We ordered a digital voice recorder and inexpensive lapel mic. The voice recorder arrived yesterday, and it is tiny. It’s… Continue reading
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Yo’ Mama
There are some amazing mom stories in the Bible. A number of preachers I’ve talked with feel stuck every Mothers Day because they don’t know what to preach about. Some of them say that there’s not a lot about mothers in the Scripture. But as I’ve done the biblical research for my first Mothers Day,… Continue reading
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End of Self, Beginning of God
It seems like every preacher has a story about the time God changed up the sermon at the last minute. I always hoped it would never happen to me. It did–my first Sunday at my new post. All week long I’d had a stinky attitude. All sorts of little things were going wrong, and the… Continue reading
Surfing the Inner N8 