Do any of you small group leaders have this person in your group? Thanks Pastor Mark for passing this along to me !
Entries from September 2008
September 20, 2008
A Leadership Book You’ll Actually Read (and should)
I found a great little book on church leadership that I would recomend all small group leaders read. It’s called “On Leadership – A Book You’ll Actually Read” by Mark Driscoll.
The reason why Driscoll makes the claim that you’ll actually read this book is because it’s cheap (less than $10.00 on Amazon) and very short [...]
September 15, 2008
Dreaming Big , Replicating Leaders and Kingdom Work
Well the first day of the “Multi Site-Exposed” conference has come to an end. Before Steve and I catch the train into downtown for some deep dish pizza, I thought I’d give a brief re-cap of the first day.
The New Life Community Church worship team blessed us with several awesome worship sets. The sets really [...]
September 15, 2008
Multi Site Conference Kick Off
Well, Steve and I made to Chicago safe and sound and we are waiting for the conference to begin. The multi-site conference is being held at New Life Community Church which is close to Midway airport. I’ll include some pics of the church in a subsequent post. It looks like a converted factory or warehouse. [...]
September 15, 2008
Multi Site Exposed Conference
Who knows how this post is going to look as I am blogging from my Blackberry in a car (I’m not driving )
At this moment, my good friend Steve Frankhouse and I are on our way to Chicago for a conference to further research the concept of church multi sites.
As you may [...]
September 12, 2008
Pulpit Study Guide for Basics, Pt. 6
Basics- Pt. 6 “Study”
This week Pastor Mark concludes the message series, “Basics: Practices of Believers”. This message is titled “Study” and will help us answer questions about how we are to study God’s Word. Studying God’s Word is a key component to our growth as a Christ Follower, but many of us [...]
September 11, 2008
What? I’m Supposed To Evangelize?
Pastor Mark said something in his message last night that caused me to write this blog post. Mark taught us that one of characteristics of a church is that it gathers and scatters to take care of God’s people. One of the way we take care of people in this way is to be an [...]
September 6, 2008
Small Group Opportunity To Serve the Elderly in Mansfield
On Saturday, September 27, Kindness In Action (KIA) is leading an effort to show Christ’s love to our community in Mansfield, specifically by serving the elderly population around town. KIA will be taking teams of people to the homes of elderly folks that are in need of assistance with things like household maintenance, cleaning, upkeep [...]
September 6, 2008
BASICS, Pt. 5 – Prayer Pulpit Study Guide
Basics, Pt. 5: Prayer PSG
Please find this week’s edition of the Pulpit Study Guide attached above in a .pdf format.
Do you ever feel like prayer is just a one-sided conversation? Or has your prayer life turned into a recitation of a wish list to God? Join us this week as we learn about the basics [...]
September 1, 2008
A Hard Heart…
I hope this Labor Day finds you to be well and I hope that you are able to get some rest over the holiday. I’m sorry I wasn’t able to post something last week. It wasn’t that there weren’t things for me to blog about because there were plenty of things going on. Time was [...]
