This afternoon, Allison is coming home from 17 days with a team from Parkcrest in Africa. I’ve had the kids alone during that time. Before this, the longest I’d ever had them alone that was 2 nights. Here’s a few things I learned from those extra 15 days with the kids alone… Single parents are…
Mike Howerton is a stud. Seriously, he’s one of my favorite people and has spoken into my life in significant ways over the past 12 or so years. I’m not blowing smoke when I tell you that I wouldn’t be who I am in ministry today without some wise words of counsel from Mike and…
Erica McNeal caught the bridal bouquet at our wedding. You’re probably thinking what do I care who caught the bouquet at your wedding? Well, here’s the deal – when the person who caught the bouquet at your wedding writes a book, let me know and we’ll be even. Until then, I’m telling you about Erica. In…
This weekend at Parkcrest we talked about what it looks like for us to be a Multiplying Church. Towards the end of the message, I gave a bit of broad vision as to what that looks like. Here’s my “Multiplying Manifesto” for Parkcrest: We will become a church multiplication center. Training and releasing people into…
With baseball season now in full swing, I’ve been following the Dodgers who incredibly have the best record in baseball with 9 wins and only 1 loss. I was wondering today how many of the players are thinking about that 1 loss and wondering what they could have done differently…what it would be like to…
What if I told you about a friend of mine who leads a church, and that church has baptized 10 people over the past 3 weeks? You’d be pretty impressed but it’s not totally out of the ordinary to hear about something like that. What if I then told you that church averages around 150…
I’m not a fan of using this for commercials, but bear with me for just one… This year, I decided to lead a different kind of mission trip at Parkcrest. One where we would still have to take off work, go through the faith exercise of raising funds, and would partner with a great organization…
The other day as I was listening to Bill Hybels being interviewed on the Catalyst Podcast, he shared something that I’ve heard him say several times – that all leaders are readers. He’s not the only one to say that. I just googled it and got over 188,000,000 links to people saying that exact same…
On Rob Bell’s last Sunday at Mars Hill, he read them a parting epistle that he had written to them. If you haven’t read it yet, set aside 15 minutes, and soak it in. so as i’ve been thinking about my sermon here today, i found myself returning again and again to the power of…
Last week was one of those weeks where we saw the generosity of God show up in our lives several times in really tangible ways. It started with getting a large check that was totally unexpected from our mortgage company explaining that they had miscalculated something over 1 year ago and they needed to give…