Share 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...
Share 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 struggling...
Share [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...
Share 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...
Share 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....
