What if you joined our boat? Or, someone else’s boat and their crew? While speaking at Azusa Pacific University’s chapel, Francis Chan shared that he and his family are moving to Asia, this year, to become missionaries. He said, in part:“I feel like I’ve been fishing in the same pond my whole life and now […]
Creating a Great Church, Together (Part 1)
Over the next several weeks, I am going to share some thoughts and challenges on how we can create a great church, together, at New Passion. I hope you’ll tune in each week. The first step to creating a great church is to ARRIVE EARLY. Notice, I didn’t say arrive on time. Typically, if we […]
Only God Can Get the Glory
I hate preparing a budget. It’s not fun at all. Especially when you have to look at the reality of how much it costs to run a church and the reality of how much money actually comes in to the church; and then there’s the balancing act of budget requests. I never really liked it […]
Velocity 2010 Session and Breakout Notes
Velocity 2010 Church Planting Conference Mountain Lake Church was not able to ramp up their bandwidth for the WIFI network in time for the Velocity 2010 Church Planters Conference. This was like a forced Blogging and Twitter fast for me, but it wasn’t a bad thing. All of my attention was on the speakers and […]
Velocity 2010 – Rick Warren
Velocity 2010 Church Planting Conference Session 6 Speaker: Rick Warren If God has called you to be a church planter, do not STEP down to do anything else…not even the President of the United States. This is the greatest calling. 1,000 Years from today, if Jesus does not come back, all Kingdoms will have fallen, […]