Jen and I just got back on Monday from our conference up in Green Lake. Yesterday was spent catching up with email, performing security upgrades to church websites, making some phone call reminders of Bible 101, and meeting two fellows who came to set up our Air Conditioner (it was …
How to Offer Constructive Criticism
Here's something I learned from my recent meeting with a church consultant---nothing that he taught me, but some things that I perceived in the way he handled the meeting with me. One of the most important things a person in leadership can learn is how to offer constructive criticism to an employee …
What’s Wrong with Me? — Follow-up
I just thought I'd write a follow-up to my previous blog... The church consultant had just a few things to tell me: The problems at NWBC were there long before I ever came, and in no way did I cause them. My leadership was such that many of the problems that were "under the table" were brought to …
What’s Wrong with Me? — Facing my problems again.
Warning: self-critical blog alert. NWBC Update It has been a few months since I left Northwest Baptist Church, and in the intervening months, NWBC has been going through a process of evaluation with a church consultant. From what I have heard, the process has been challenging and helpful. The …
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Paper Airplanes
Charlie has gotten me hooked on paper airplanes again. As a kid, I used to make hundreds of them. My friend had a book with what must have been 50 designes, and we memorized them all. I can still remember some of them, but there are others I can't remember at all. Anyway, as I've gotten back into …
Some Game Sites
I've had some good responses from my few game postings, so here are a couple of more links to some cool games and sites: www.armorgames.com -- flash games jayisgames.com -- a blog site reviewing games. Dumb: The Game -- test how dumb you are. Room Escape -- post a comment if you can escape from …
In the Beginning(s)
How the Perfect Creation was Corrupted Nothing existed except for God, and he decided when everything should begin. He created the world in a flash of light, and built it up piece by piece until it was exactly the way he wanted it, but despite its beauty and greatness, he noticed something was …
Explaining the Whole Bible
As I have spoken with people about the Bible, I find more and more that people aren't really familiar with the "plot" or the overall story of the Bible. Therefore, I'm going to try to go through the entire story of the Bible in a very brief overview fashion. The challenge is that I don't want to …
Log for May 10, 2006
My day: Connecting Meet with Kerry Bowman, lead/founding pastor of Eagle Church in Zionsville, just north of Indianapolis. Kerry is going through a process right now of trying to recover his “strategic” focus in the church and beyond the church walls considering that he has been …