The excess in today’s church is that we have more teachers than preachers. There are fewer still, that are gifted to teach and preach at the same time. Very few preachers can teach. Very few teachers can preach. Both are communicators. Neither is a given, to be able to communicate. It takes work.
Archive for October, 2008
Tim Sanders God will hold you in kindness and compassion for what you TRIED to do in this life. Dave Ramsey By definition, gossip is when a negative is discussed with anyone who can’t help solve the problem. Gossip is on the same list in the Bible as adultery. There is a spirit of fear [...]
Happy birthday to our baby, Abigail!! She’s a joy! We all love you!
Pre-Launch Team Meetings- We are having a great team of people gather for launch team meetings every other Wednesday. You guys are a fabulous and diversified group of talented, gifted, creative, and visionary people! Thank you all for journeying with us. We have coffee and dessert, share the vision, and enjoy some great community together as new [...]
Craig Groeschel The “it” factor. I don’t know what “it” is, but I’m pretty sure “it” has something to do with the Holy Spirit, but not ALL spirits. God makes “it” happen. You can’t create “it.” “It” is not a model or a system. “It” has an upside; lives are changed forever. “It” has a [...]
Kim and I are very proud of our senior in high school son Jordan, who was announced by Heritage High School this week as the athlete of the month. This is a great honor! Woo hoo Rufus!!
Steven Furtick If you feed them, they will come. When we made the decision to move to Charlotte, NC to plant a new church, one of our thoughts about this was that there was more to life than just going out and working a job filling up a bunch of 401K’s. Seth Godin The more [...]
Question: I wonder why we don’t book many speakers for conferences who are not “big-timers? Joseph was a gifted leader and Christian who was on a journey and had not been publicly noticed, much. He would be used mightily of God. The leader that has never been booked has not yet accomplished what the big-timers [...]
A special thanks to the gang at Factor 1 Studios for a great, great purple cow of a logo and brand. They have amazing creativity, fabulous pricing, and attitude that is out of this world! Meaning of the Logo The roots and origin are displayed literally in this logo, giving it a very organic feel. [...]
When Andy Stanley started Northpoint, Ed Young launched Fellowship, Bill Hybels launched Willow Creek, and Rick Warren launched Saddleback, there was nothing much like what they were doing…it was the “purple cow” of the day and on into the 2000′s. Now, there are hundreds of amazing and innovative worship services all over the nation that [...]
