…over and over again will produce the same results. Now, I’ll give you a minute to digest the “incredible depth” of that thought. If you’ve ever done any weight training consistently, one of the things you’ll experience is what I call “the plateau”. The plateau is the point when a particular muscle group tends to [...]
Love stuff like this. With everyone it seems experiencing cutbacks in budgets, including creative media budgets, it pushes us to a couple of options. One option is to sit back, and say what we can’t do. The other is to ask “what can we do?”. Innovation is often limited by leadership that is 1. focused [...]
We had my parents over for dinner tonight and we were discussing how many people that we know that have been impacted by cancer. Kim had thyroid cancer back several years ago and now two incredible friends of ours (Tom and Angie) are waging their own battles. Would you take a minute to pray for [...]
Here’s the photo/video montage that we showed this morning at the Banks Mill and West Campuses. It was a part of the Be The Church celebrations.
wow, I have been such a blogging slacker lately. I apologize. I think i have been working on more projects over the last few months than I have in quite a while. Looking forward to a little break. Here’s a bumper I created for Pine Ridge Church in Graham, NC. I designed the sermon series [...]
…you have to do things that no one is doing. The message doesn’t change but the methods MUST. Check out this clip from Craig Groeschel.
I had a meeting with the Augusta Symphony about a website so I met with them a few weeks ago. They are housed at Sacred Heart Cultural center in downtown Augusta. Sacred Heart was a church that closed in 1971 and was renovated and restored in 1987 as a cultural center for the community to [...]
Had a chance earlier this week to speak with Kelly Jasper with the Augusta Chronicle for an article in today’s paper. The article was on the use of social media in ministry, in particular Twitter. You can check it out here. At the bottom of the article, they give a listing of local pastors and [...]
I was reading Steven Furtick’s blog earlier this week, and he had a post on how growth happens at Elevation Church. As soon as I read it I thought “If I had to describe what I would perceive as the perfect fit for me in ministry, it would be to help make what he describes [...]
When it comes to doing small groups in churches, there are two paradigms that exist: Churches OF Small Groups and Churches WITH Small Groups. Churches WITH small groups see small groups as another ministry that their church does. Churches OF small groups view them as core essential of who they are. It plays out in [...]
