Advent Conspiracy

The Conspiracy Begins

There have been a lot of breaks in my speaking and there will be a few more. Outside Ascent I’ll only be speaking once between now and our Christmas...

Getting Rid of the Stump

I’m stumped. I’m looking at what I need to keep doing and what I need to stop doing in order to narrow the focus and do fewer things to make…

Breaking Out the Clutter

This is the week that Kate and I start decorating the house for Christmas, it’s nothing different from what the usual family does. We go into our...

Advent Conspiracy

H2O, H2O, H2O

Thanksgiving is over. Generation Change is over and now it’s time to move to Christmas (I know the majority of the country has already been in...

The Day Before The Day Before.

It’s the day before, the day before Thanksgiving and it’s that time where I feel like I have to get everything done, because there will be two less...

Generation Change Week 5

We closed out Generation Change last night with Stewardship Sunday. The series lasted 5 weeks, in Uprising (high school) and Resurrection (7th/8th)...

Serving in Stride

I felt like the world’s biggest kid on Friday. I was invited to go on a ride along with one of my ministers who is a police officer…actually I asked…

Wasting The Margin

I don’t know about you but I’m wiped. It’s been 4 weeks since I spoke at Uprising and when you give a message there is a lot of physical, spiritual…

The Payoff?

Tonight we close out this stewardship series with the high school students. I’m glad it’s over because we get to go back to live messages instead of...

Metro Ministry

I went to the David Crowder Band concert in DC last night. Kate had gotten me tickets for my birthday, and it was a real treat. To get there we…

Generation Change Week 4

It’s interesting to see how serious we can be about our money. This past weekend in Resurrection and Uprising we did an exercise where the students...

Catalyst 09 Andy Stanley and Craig Groeschel

Went to Catalyst One Day in Columbia, MD…it was challenging, uplifting and motivating. Below are the notes I took, they are pretty raw but do with...