Holiness Reeducation

Jim Collins, in his masterful book Good to Great says that good is the enemy of great. Good makes us comfortable. Good removes our desire to make the difficult decision necessary to be great. Here are the opening words from Collins book in chapter 1. Good is the enemy of great. And that is one [...]

What is your capacity for leadership? That is the question I have been asking myself for the past week as I have reflected on some of the teachings of Mike Breen I heard in Atlanta. Mike challenged us as leaders to evaluate the leaders we invest into not through their competency but according to their [...]

But many of us who have seen significant growth in our churches know a dirty little secret: Significant growth has its own ill effect on helping communities develop deep faith. Numeric growth of Christianity doesn’t indicate a more harmonious was of life with God. The metaphor of the body is a good one for churches. [...]

I wanted to give you something to read today with all of your internet time freed up since you aren’t scanning Wikipedia for articles about Def Leppard or waste your day looking at funny cats and creative fails over at I can has Cheezburger. Those and other popular sites have gone on strike today to [...]

How in the world does a ship the size of a floating city ending up capsized just off shore? Frankly I am glad that I am not the one who has to answer that question. The captain of the Costa will have to answer that question and the results are going to change his life [...]

Seven churches that left the Episcopal Church to join the Anglican Mission in America are now being forced to give up their property. A judge ruled that the diocese of the Episcopal Church owned their buildings and land rather than the churches themselves. So now these congregations which left their diocese and the Episcopal church [...]

I just read a really interesting review of the book The END of Sexual Identity by Jenell Williams Paris over at Jesus Creed. I haven’t read the book yet, but I am adding it to my short list of books to read soon. Here is an excerpt from the review. If you are interested in [...]

The gospel you preach will determine the disciples you make. Does the gospel you preach naturally lead people to a life of discipleship? What do the disciples your gospel produces look like? Those are the very important questions I have been wrestling with since returning from the Missional Learning Commons on Saturday. Is our struggle [...]

Happy Reformation Day for all of you Protestants out there. Almost 500 years ago Martin Luther, writing more as a scholar than an intended reformer sparked a wave of transformation that has changed the very fabric of Christianity. I mean without Luther we would never have ended up with the Single Men Between the age [...]

A beautiful fall weekend in Indiana birthed a wonderful day of worship at DCC yesterday. What a privilege it is to proclaim the love of God each week. There is an almost indescribable joy in watching grace fall on a congregation and begin to work its way into the hearts of those gathered. It is [...]