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Last time I mentioned that some of the seminarians I knew were getting into ministry to fulfill their own narcissism. These guys (and I use that term in the northern, gender neutral sense) were all about the show. They wanted the spotlight to always be on them. They wanted to be important. If we’re honest [...]

Wow, James has gotten all of his “Primary Communicator” posts up already. I need to get a move on…
Having graduated from a fairly small Christian Liberal Arts College, I know a lot of guys who were majoring in various areas of Pastoral Ministry. The sad thing is, many of them wanted to get into ministry [...]

Even though we aren’t the “Primary Communicator”, behind the scenes pastors deal with a lot of stress. If something goes wrong, it feels like it’s our fault, no matter what it is. If the video doesn’t play properly on Sunday Morning, or the Cafe is out of coffee, or even if Jill isn’t being properly [...]

James just wrote the first in a series of posts entitled: The Primary Communicator. In the post, which you can probably see by simply scrolling down, he talks about how he has been impacted by various styles of teaching. With the series, he is going to explain what it means to be the “Primary Communicator” [...]

One of the things that I love about being a portable church is that we have more ways for “ordinary people” to serve than a church with a building. Don’t get me wrong, having your own building is nice, but there’s just something cool about having to bring all your own equipment in on Sunday [...]

Recently James and I have began work on re-writing LifePoint’s Statement of Faith. In fact, we are so in the middle of working on it, that I can’t even link to our old one. Fortunately for you guys, it looked almost identical to this one. Now, don’t misunderestimate me, there’s nothing wrong with a traditional [...]

That’s right. This Sunday we’re going to be talking about two of the things your momma told you never to talk about: religion and politics. To make matters worse, we’ll be trying to figure out how God, and our faith, carries over into the political realm. I won’t lie. We’re more concerned about this message [...]

Last Sunday, James opened our series Heroes by talking about how we can become a hero. We all grew up wanting to save the world. As kids, most of us thought that being a hero meant jumping tall buildings, lifting buses, or having the agility of a rabid mongoose (see Mongoose Man). As we get [...]

In real estate, they tell you that selling your home comes down to three things: location, location, and, you guessed it, location. I think that the church can learn a lot from this simple mantra. One of the things we noticed on our visit to Lifechurch.tv in Hendersonville was the location of their welcome table. [...]

James and I are members of LifeChurch.tv’s “Open” network. That means that we have the ability to download all of LifeChurch.tv’s message materials, including videos, sermon outlines, etc. This past weekend, we were invited by Brian, who is over the Open network, to visit him at the LifeChurch.tv Campus in Hendersonville, Tn and experience a [...]