I’m not the best at stopping to celebrate milestones. I’ve been known to forget a birthday or anniversary from time to time. And I’m often so focused on “what’s next” that I don’t pause long enough to celebrate what just happened. My friend, Mark Batterson, (his new book Soulprint: Discovering Your Divine Destiny releases in [...]
Calling all church planters. Join me for a Backstage Leadership discussion on ChurchPlanting coming up on November 30th. Come enhance your leadership. Spend 90 minutes learning with Mark Batterson and yours truly. Bring your best questions, and we’ll spend our time in Question & Answer dialogue going deep on the inner workings of church planting. [...]
I continue to learn so much as we go through this 31 Day Challenge together. I’m also really enjoying the 31 Day Challenge Blog. I did the post today, but each day a different pastor or staff member from Cross Point writes their observations about the day’s Proverbs. I’m learning so much from those posts [...]
Yesterday at Cross Point Nashville we launched our new series Hope Now. In this series we’re discussing the anatomy of hope. In John 11 we discovered TRUE HOPE DEVELOPS WHEN YOU ACCEPT GOD’S POWER AND TIMING. Most of the time we want his power, we want his strength, but we don’t want his calendar. I [...]
My friend, Mark Batterson wrote in “Wild Goose Chase“… According to the research of Rolf Smith, children ask 125 probing questions per day. Adults, on the other hand, ask only half a dozen probing questions each day. That means somewhere between childhood and adulthood, we lose 119 questions per day…. Unfortunately, at some point in [...]
I have been thinking about a post on the topic of criticizing one another and then I read THIS POST by Mark Batterson, pastor at National Community Church in D.C. that summed it up so well. My heart has been really heavy lately as I have watched Christians absolutely destroy one another. I just don’t [...]
