Grove Launch Team

I have been thinking while reading about how the Grove Launch Team is building and how people are connecting.  It’s already an interconnected team – building relationships that are not dependent on me.  That’s dreamy (a word I only use when I’ve been reading too much)!  We’ve been spending oodles of time too, just making [...]

Foster, Celebration of Discipline

I read this book three or four years ago for my licensing into the Evangelical Church.  This go around, it was assigned to me as a part of my PESM training, in a course focused on the devotional life of a leader.
I love this book.
It’s a great book to read every year to give your [...]

McLaren, New Kind of Christian

I have read this book multiple times; this time I read it with the college kids as a discussion book for our small group. I love what this book does for people because it allows them freedom to really wrestle with life issues in the real world while we try to remain faithful to [...]

MMC – Monday, February 23, 2009

weekend in review: What a full week followed by a full weekend!! I haven’t had any new content up because we’ve been doing training for the new church plant and I was at a two day coaching seminar this week. On top of this I had regular church responsibilities and had to play [...]

Tuesday Morning Check-In: February 17, 2009

weekend in review: Fantastic weekend. We had a really fun Valentine’s as I preformed a wedding for Christeena and Robert. It’s been fun watching redemption happen in their lives, and how it will continue! On Sunday we had the first official Grove gathering to chat and dream and strategize and meet each [...]

dc Talk – Heaven Bound

Here’s full disclosure for you: this was my absolute favorite song in 1990. I knew every word. I can still quote it. DC Talk changed my life.
dc Talk – Heaven Bound Music Video

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Bill Gates at TED

TED is a conference that I would love to attend, but would be frustrated because I wouldn’t be able to remember as much as I wished I could. Instead, I watch TED online (welcome to the future)!
Today, I came across a new talk from Bill Gates (that i can’t embed because TED is [...]

Annual Reports

This past Tuesday we had our church’s annual business review meeting.  It’s the meeting where the superintendent comes down to our church, we do the elections that are necessary and the pastor gives a review of the past year with a look to the future.  It’s not fun like laser tag on unicorns, but it’s [...]

MMC – February 9, 2009

weekend in review: Good weekend, did a great training seminar for a new system of involvement for the Grove and then got to take the kids out to Clover Ridge to play in the park.  Sunday was good too with church, meeting with a small group about church planting and then going to my own [...]

Macchia, Becoming a Healthy Church

Stephen Macchia is president of Leadership Transformations, which is a ministry focusing on the spiritual formation needs of leaders and discernment for leadership teams in Christian ministries. This book was assigned to me for PESM and it is a comprehensive study of 10 common characteristics that were found in healthy churches in the New [...]