In March 2008 I took a trip up to Annapolis, Maryland to see meet some church planters and see if I wanted to eventually move there to plant on my own. While I was there I walked around downtown Annapolis and the cross-bridge community of Eastport. These are a few photos from Annapolis.
Ruins of the...
Joe McKeever, the Director of Missions at the Baptist Association of Greater New Orleans (BAGNO), wrote a post on his blog a few weeks ago outlining the status of our local Baptist churches. He broke them down into three categories: struggling, flourishing but with issues, and normal. My church, Edgewater, fell under the...
[I originally posted this in May 2006, but I wanted to re-post it in preparation for some thoughts to be posted soon.]
For those of you who haven’t read anything by Donald Miller, or have no idea who he is or what he’s about, I encourage you to check out the Christianity Today blog Out of...
So I got to thinking about all this ethical church leadership stuff, and because we live in a soundbyte world, I came up with this to summarize:
“Are we supposed to be known more for our love or for all the things we hate?”
Someone else said something very similar once, I’m sure, but it doesn’t matter....
Here is a trustworthy saying: If anyone sets his heart on being an overseer, he desires a noble task. Now the overseer must be above reproach, the husband of but one wife, temperate, self-controlled, respectable, hospitable, able to teach, not given to drunkenness, not violent but gentle, not quarrelsome, not a lover of money. He...
