Tag Archive: Ministry

Power Neutral Systems, Part 1

Unlike previous items where I’ve mentioned one key of healthy systems per post, I’m going to have to break this one up over several to adequately communicate my ideas. We’re now up to the fourth of six keys for healthy church systems that I laid out in an earlier post. The topic of power neutral…

The Word of God, Part 1

New Poll – What version of the Bible do you use. Vote at my blog sidebar. I’ve been an avid fan of the New International Version just about as long as I can remember. I received a copy of the KJV when I was baptized as a child, but the youth minister was using NIV…

Accepting Grace

Brian and I have been working through a series on our church’s mission and vision.  I was blessed to have the opportunity to address the third point in our vision: we will be a community for accepting grace. Lot’s of good feedback on the sermon, particularly the video. For those looking for the video, here…

Shepherd Nominations

This really isn’t following where I wanted to go, but part of the slowness of posting has been because of an increase in church stuff to handle, which really is a blessing. We’re currently in the process of trying to appoint additional shepherds, which we desperately need, and while we’re not having the evangelists do…

What am I supposed to be?

This questions has caused me more trouble than I care to admit. I never felt a strong pull toward what “I am supposed to be”. I’ve joked recently with people my age and older that we still don’t know what we want to be when we grow up. I imagine we’ll figure out one day….

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