This Week’s Links

Tuesday on the blog means that I get to share some of what I have read and found interesting over the past week with all of you. This week’s topic categories are: Church and Ministry Thought & Practice; Cross-Sector Collaboration; Leadership Thought & Practice; Millennials; Neighbor Love; Social Media & Blogging; Stewardship; Vocation; Worship and Miscellaneous. I hope you enjoy these links! Church and Ministry Thought … Continue reading This Week’s Links

Resisting Perfection and Performance in Worship

If you are a part of a congregation, faith community, or serve or volunteer with a non-profit, you know that it is important to cultivate volunteers or “lay leaders.” You probably also know that when you are building capacity of these volunteers and leaders there will likely be challenges, growth opportunities and growing pains along the way. Perfection won’t always be possible. Perhaps it shouldn’t … Continue reading Resisting Perfection and Performance in Worship

This Week’s Links

Tuesday on my blog means that I get to share some links with all of you. These are links to things that I have found interesting and thought provoking over the past week. This week’s edition is special though. It’s the 52nd edition of the links. You see, I started sharing these on Tuesdays just about a year ago. So, Happy Birthday to the Links! … Continue reading This Week’s Links

Positive Things- Day 3

Even though the Seattle Seahawks lost today (sadly), there are plenty of other positive things to go around. So, with that note, and in continuing the five-days of sharing gratitude and reflecting on positive things, here are three more positive things and experiences: 1) Yesterday, my wife Allison and I enjoyed a wonderful walk around Lake Como. While on the walk we talked more about … Continue reading Positive Things- Day 3

Positive Things- Day 2

Continuing this 5-day exercise in gratitude and positivity which I began yesterday, here are three positives for today: 1) Last night Allison and I met our friends Rebecca and Trip Sullivan at Izzy’s Ice-Cream. The ice-cream was amazing, as always. But even more than that, spending time with friends there and then hanging out with them and Carrie into the evening was wonderful. I’m so … Continue reading Positive Things- Day 2

This Week’s Links

Tuesday on the blog means that I get to share some of what I have found interesting and thought provoking over the past week with all of you. To this end, this week’s different topic categories are: Church and Ministry Thought & Practice; Cross-Sector Collaboration; Leadership Thought & Practice; Millennials; Neighbor Love; Social Media & Blogging; Stewardship; Vocation; Worship and Miscellaneous. I hope you enjoy … Continue reading This Week’s Links

Twelve Questions on my Mind Today

Every once and awhile a big question pops into my head. Sometimes I think about those questions and am completely focused on them. Sometimes I ignore the questions because I am just too busy. Other times I write the questions down and allow myself time to reflect and wrestle with them. I seem to have had a lot of questions lately. In fact, far more … Continue reading Twelve Questions on my Mind Today

This Week’s Links

Tuesday usually means that I get to share some of what I have found interesting and thought-provoking over the past week with all of you. Because I didn’t quite complete these yesterday, this week’s edition comes on Wednesday. Hopefully the extra wait was worth it. In terms of what is covered this week, topic categories are: Church and Ministry Thought & Practice; Cross-Sector Collaboration; Leadership … Continue reading This Week’s Links

This Week’s Links

Tuesday on my blog means that I get to share some of what I have found interesting and thought provoking with all of you. Because of travels and vacation, you might have noticed that there weren’t any links last week. To make up for that, this week’s edition seems to be fuller than usual. This week’s topic categories are: Church and Ministry Thought & Practice; … Continue reading This Week’s Links

This Week’s Links

I hope all of you had an enjoyable 4th of July/Independence Day weekend! I did, as I was in Wisconsin celebrating my Grandma’s 90th birthday. Turning to today’s post, Tuesday on the blog means that I get to share some of what I have found interesting over the past week with all of you. This week’s topic categories are: Church and Ministry Thought & Practice; … Continue reading This Week’s Links