This event was a great time and a blessing to the community around us. Here are some snapshots!
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Snaps from the Great Anne Arundel Candy Drop!
Posted in Church, Misc on November 1, 2008 | No Comments »
Addicted
Posted in Church, Leadership, Misc, tagged Church, Leadership on November 1, 2008 | 2 Comments »
If we’re honest I think that alot of pastors are addicted. Maybe not to porn or drugs or alcohol. Some maybe to more “pastoraly” accepted things like work, success, leadership, power, praise or affirmation from others, or the Church. Yeah, that’s right we can be addicted to the Church. Although working in the church is [...]
Why do people choose a church?
Posted in Church, tagged Church on October 14, 2008 | No Comments »
In Thom S. Ranier’s book Surprising Insights from the Unchurched. It discusses the following three surveys.
Top 13 Reasons that Unchurched People Choose a Church
(research conducted by Ranier)
90% - Pastor/Preaching
88% - Doctrines
49% - Friendliness of Members
42% - Other Issues
41% - Someone Church Witnessed to Me
38% - Family Member
37% - Sensed God’s Presence/Atmosphere of Church
25% - Relationship [...]
Staff Relations
Posted in Church, Leadership on October 13, 2008 | No Comments »
I’ve been hearing alot of stories recently about poor relations between staff members at churches….especially between senior pastors and youth pastors. This seems to be a common problem. Many senior pastors are on a power trip and intimidated by the usually younger, gifted youth pastor. On the other hand many youth pastors are lacking the proper respect [...]
More
Posted in Church, Leadership on October 2, 2008 | No Comments »
Seriously, I’m done with the view of church that I have had for the past 5 years. I want our church to really be about one thing….preaching Jesus Christ, the gospel, the good news for those who need to hear it. I’m still going to be innovative (or try to be), I’m still going to [...]
Raise your hand please!
Posted in Church on September 30, 2008 | No Comments »
Disclaimer!!! This is not a post dogging another church. This is not a post teaming with jealousy, but one with a serious question I have. I’m familiar with a church that is one of the fastest growing churches in the country. I won’t say the name because it’s not even important. This church has been [...]
Great Anne Arundel Candy Drop Web Site
Posted in Church on September 24, 2008 | No Comments »
Check it out, refer people to the site, show up and see candy rain from the sky!
The Great Anne Arundel Candy Drop
Posted in Church on September 12, 2008 | No Comments »
On October 26th, The Journey Church will be dropping thousands of bags of candy and prize tokens onto the football field at Old MIll High school. If you are in the area, you don’t want to miss it!! Here’s the press release. Click the link below the release to go to the official web site!
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The [...]
Do you have junk?
Posted in Church on September 12, 2008 | No Comments »
This week at The Journey Church we are starting a new series called “Junk”. So many times we are ineffective for God because we carry around junk. The junk of our past, the junk of sin, the junk of legalism and the junk of unforgiveness. If you want help getting rid of the junk in [...]
Worship Leader Complaints
Posted in Church on September 9, 2008 | No Comments »
As a worship leader (at least 50% of the time at Journey), it intrests me what people think about how I do. Or if I do anything that distracts or annoys people. This post from ChurchRelevance.com made me think.
Last month, Carlos Whittaker of Buckhead Church (Atlanta, GA) blogged the dangerous question:
What is the biggest gripe [...]
Cheesey!
Posted in Church, Humor, Misc on September 9, 2008 | 2 Comments »
OK, sorry mom (and whoever else likes them), but I hate Christian T-shirts! I just cringe when I see a t-shirt with the Reeses logo, but instead of “Reeses” it says’ “Jesus”! Again, you may disagree, but it makes me embarrassed for the Church. Here are a few of my “favorites”…
Isn’t that great…just a few [...]
Types of Church people.
Posted in Church on September 2, 2008 | No Comments »
In my experience, there are 2 different types of people at most churches;
Those who want the church to have a ministry specifically for them. “We need a 5th grade ministry!”, “We need a Senior adult ministry!”, “We need a Single Moms ministry!” While all of these are good ideas, a church plant still in it’s [...]
Celebrity Pastors
Posted in Church, Leadership on May 23, 2008 | No Comments »
I just finished reading a blog post from a pastor who just returned from the WhiteBoard Conference in Washington DC. It disturbed me a little bit (ok, a lot!) because he wrote that he was so in awe of all of the “successful” pastors that were there. He went on to say that he felt [...]
Top 50 Church Web Sites
Posted in Church, Church Web Sites on May 22, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Because I am a self proclaimed Church Web Site expert (if your church has a website, chances are I’ve been to it), I have put together my Top 50 Church Web Sites. I have taken into account the design, practicality, innovation and the content of each site. I have not put them in order (that’s [...]
Who Pastors the Pastors?
Posted in Church, Misc on May 19, 2008 | 2 Comments »
After reading a couple different pastors blogs (Gary Lamb and Michael Lukaszewski) and finding out who these pastors listen to to help them in their spiritual journey, I’m going to give you the crazy long list of pastors that I listen to regularly. All of these guys are available by podcast and I learn [...]
Great Quote
Posted in Church, Great Quotes, Leadership on May 19, 2008 | No Comments »
From Perry Noble’s last message;
“If you love the way we do church now, you’re probably going to hate it in 10 years.”
I’ve said before that if we’re singing the same songs, doing the same things the same way we are doing them now in 10 years…shoot me. I don’t want to be in a comfort [...]
Sweaty, Hick Preacher!
Posted in Church, Misc on May 16, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I wish I could change a couple of things about myself when it comes to my preaching, but I simply can’t. I can always be more prepared, more prayed up and more given over to be used by the Holy Spirit, but I can’t change these things.
I’m a sweaty preacher. I really do [...]
Violent Healing!
Posted in Church, Humor, Video's on May 12, 2008 | No Comments »
This is sad, disturbing and hilarious all at the same time. If this is what it takes to get healed….I’ll pass!
Please, no “leg dropping” the pastors at The Journey Church!
Free E-books from Chris Forbes
Posted in Church, Resources on May 9, 2008 | No Comments »
Here are 2 free e-books in PDF form from www.ministrymarketingcoach.com
25 Free Marketing Tools
Facebook for Pastors
The Multiplying Church
Posted in Church, Leadership on May 8, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I just finished reading, “The Multiplying Church” by Bob Roberts Jr. This was a good read. Lots of stuff to make you think. At the end of the book, he gives some quotes from the book and says these are the things I never want you to forget. I’d like to share some of them [...]
The Bivocational Pastor
Posted in Church, Leadership on May 8, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Again, keep in mind that I apologized on Monday for a few of my posts this week:)That being said, what I have to say about being a bivocational pastor may cause some disagreement. I might get an e-mail or two and that’s O.K. as long as it makes you think. Of course this [...]
Great Quote
Posted in Church, Great Quotes, Leadership on May 8, 2008 | No Comments »
Tony Morgan has this quote over on his blog, so I thought I’d steal it. It’s not his anyway!
Jeff Bezos, founder and CEO of Amazon.com as quoted on BusinessWeek.com (April 17, 2008)
I believe you have to be willing to be misunderstood if you’re going to innovate. That’s actually a serious point. If you’re going [...]
Excellence is the American Church’s idol?
Posted in Bible, Church, Leadership, Misc on May 6, 2008 | 1 Comment »
O.K., so shoot me now! I know that I apologized beforehand for some of this weeks posts….this being one of them. First of all let me say that it is my belief that we should do everything that we do to the best of our God-given abilities. We should strive to do [...]
Journey’s First “Let it Fly” Flag Football Tournament!
Posted in Church, Misc, Sports on May 6, 2008 | No Comments »
Can’t wait. This will be an exciting event. Here is a PDF of the Brochure that people will recieve in the mail.
Let it Fly Brochure
My Biggest Mistakes in Ministry
Posted in Church, Leadership on May 2, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Going 4 years to Bible College. What? It was a mistake to go to Bible College? Well, yes and no. I feel after 15 years of ministry experience that Bible College did little to nothing to prepare me for ministry. I would recommend all would-be pastors go to Bible College for [...]
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