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So, today I’m having lunch with a few folks including this guy I just met who happens to be in his senior year of college. We were chatting about several topics including baseball, ministry, job-hunting, etc. He mentioned that his dad was a pastor. Before I could catch myself I asked the question, “Is he [...]

Honestly, I’ve followed Notre Dame football since I was a kid, but I’m not a Charlie Weis fan. Weis, though, shared this very insightful thought in a recent Associated Press article on ESPN.com:
“If you sit there and try to be a vengeful person and be worried about every negative thing that people said, that really [...]

Jud Wilhite, the senior pastor of Central Christian Church in Las Vegas, stopped in at NewSpring this afternoon. For those of you unfamiliar with Jud’s story, he took over at Central when Gene Appel left to join the leadership team at Willow Creek. Jud inherited a 40-year-old ministry and followed an incredible transition that occurred [...]

This just proves that it pays to be a reader of my blog. Here’s the scoop…
As you may know, the Catalyst Conference is in just a couple of weeks on October 3-5, 2007. I’m a sad puppy because our team isn’t traveling during GameTime at NewSpring. Therefore, I need some friends to go and blog [...]

Jacob, Kayla and I went to our first Clemson football game last night. In case you didn’t hear (in Columbia or Athens), Clemson won. It was a great night. The kids had a blast. Here are five lessons I learned from the evening.

If thousands of people make some noise, it can get pretty loud. Jacob [...]

I’ve had some conversations in recent days that have reminded me…

Vision is easy when you launch.
Vision is what distinguishes one organization from the next. Both may be great organizations. They just have unique visions.
If you grow, eventually, someone will try to shift the vision in a different direction. That’s a guarantee.
People need to be reminded [...]

Craig Groeschel from LifeChurch.tv had the unenviable task of presenting the after-lunch session yesterday. I had a meatball sandwich. Craig had to be better than that meatball sandwich. Even though he was competing with lunch and my lack of sleep, he certainly delivered.
Craig talked about the challenges of innovation. He suggested:
Limited Resources + Increasing Passion [...]

Several of us had a great conversation the other day related to the launch of our Greenville campus. We were talking about the importance of leadership development. After our conversation, these realities have been challenging my thinking:

Leaders can’t be recruited from the platform. We have to challenge them one-on-one.
Leaders won’t be fulfilled performing tasks. We [...]

Just got back from Atlanta a little bit ago. Perry and I drove over to meet with the Catalyst team and to record an interview for a future podcast. Loved it! Perry and I agree. We could sit all day and talk about ministry and leadership. Fun stuff.
The team at Catalyst is on the ball. [...]

We had an all-staff meeting at NewSpring this past week. Perry gave me permission to pass along these notes. Here are the seven questions he challenged all of the staff to ask ourselves:

Am I living above reproach? (II Timothy 2:20-21)
Is this job my passion or my paycheck? (II Samuel 23:9-10)
Am I in line with where [...]