Generous Justice

Reading Generous Justice by Tim Keller – it’s phenomenal. Came across this passage and it was too good not to share. It’s from one of Robert Murray M’Cheyne’s sermons: “Now, dear Christians, some of you pray night and day to the branches of the true Vine; you pray to be made all over in the [...]

Advice for the Class of 2011 Future Leaders

Just over 2 years ago I was just starting out as a part of the Future Leaders Program. Now, a new class is coming in and going off to orientation. I’m getting nostalgic just thinking about it. Throughout the program and after I’ve learned so much about ministry and about life. If I could offer [...]

Bing on Google

Ok, so this was pretty funny…I saw this ad on a YouTube video earlier today: I thought it was kind of funny for a few reasons: 1. Bing is a competitor to Google. 2. The ad is served via the Google ad network (this is kind of like CBS having a commercial for one of [...]

Leadership Lessons from a Dancing Guy

This is pretty fantastic…some pretty great principles from a pretty silly three-minute movie. What are the parallels to ministry? (via SvN)

Are you “Administrative” ?

One of the things we like to do in Church World is to figure out if people have the gift of “Administration.” I feel like people in ministry are very eager to do this because very few people in ministry are administrative. In fact, I think that the gift of Administration is about as rare [...]