The Burden of the Church (1 of 4)

One thing I’ve noticed in the pastor blogging world is that most rave about how much they love their church, how much they love pastoring, how it’s the greatest thing in the world.That is not the case for me. I don’t always love my church, I don’t always love pastoring, and I think there are…

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Burden Blog Series

I’m back in Virginia Beach seeing family and old friends from Forefront (the church I started here). Very excited to be back for the first time in almost three years! The next four days, while I’m gone, I’m gonna share an old four part blog series I did like four years ago on “The Burden…

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Celebrate Success

One of my weaknesses as a leader is that I don’t celebrate success.  “Yeah, we did great, it was awesome, what’s next?” is my style, and that’s not good.  In “Celebrate Team’s Success and Boost Business,” Brenda Bence talks about some of the positive effects of celebrating success: It motivates employees to work harder. It…

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Influences

When I teach church planting seminars or coach planters I sometimes talk about intentionally choosing your influences. Obviously if the Bible speaks on a topic, we should follow the Bible. But what about when it doesn’t? I think one of the (many) reasons churches reach church goers (rather than people who don’t like church) is…

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Micro Groups

One of the highlights of each week for me are meeting with the guys in my two Micro Groups. When we first moved to Vegas we assumed we would do typical “Small Groups” – 10 to 15 people meeting in a living room for some social time and a little Bible study. But after studying…

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