If anyone has e-mailed me at my @thewellpa.com e-mail address in the past week or few days, I am having some issues with them. So, if you are waiting for a response from me there is a 100% chance I didn’t get the e-mail. You can e-mail me through my contact form if you [...]
Tonight I stood in front of 300 people, about 290 of whom I had never met before and did my best to deal with the reality that their 26 year old brother, son, nephew, friend took his own life. This was perhaps one of the most overwhelming experiences of my entire life. Its [...]
Some things aren’t appropriate to blog about in detail. But, tomorrow night (Thursday) I will be leading a memorial service for a 26 year old young man named Phil who committed suicide early Tuesday morning. I did not know Phil or most of his family. But, his brother and his brother’s wife went [...]
Often churches (like mine) talk about making sure that people can “assimilate” or get “plugged-in” (i hate that second phrase - its so mechanical) to the community. I have always had a love-hate relationship with these ideas. I haven’t really been able to put words around why the idea didn’t sit well with [...]
I’ve got two traits that often work against each other when it comes to pastoral ministry. First, I’m highly creative. I love being creative. This is a good quality. But, I’ve also got a bad habit of being all about and needing instant gratification.
So, when you combine those two things, what [...]
And I am even more so after the John Chandler’s Broncos decided to be manly and kick the ball to him. If you didn’t see the game last night, you missed quite a game.
On Hester’s second return for a TD I woke my poor son up because I was yelling too loud. [...]
We are headed up to the Wisconsin Dells to go to our family’s timeshare. This means I won’t have internet access till Friday. I’m actually looking forward to it.
Should be some good time with my family.
Bruce Reyes-Chow has a great post worth checking out about how we always feel the need to make sure people know how great we are. Good stuff. While this is a huge pet peeve of mine, I still catch myself doing it all the time.
So, this morning Melanie and I woke up the kids and got out of the house by around 6:50 for a 9:15 flight out of Philadelphia. It took us 1 hour and 45 minutes to get to the airport (usually takes about 1 hour that time of day). In addition to missing [...]
Wanna be a better dad? I know I do.
My Friend LT pointed me to this survey by his friend Tony, creator of the healthcare blog, hospitalimpact.org needs your help to help superdads everywhere with savvy daddy.
First he’s trying to get as many dads as possible to take this 10min web survey. So check out [...]
My good friend Joe Myers, author of Organic Community and The Search to Belong, will be interviewed by Sally Morgenthaler on www.shapevine.com tonight at 9:00pm Eastern. I am hoping to be able to listen in. Joe has been a great encouragement to me as a friend and as a mentor. I think its [...]
Tim Keel, author of the new book Intuitive Leadership, must be reading my mind. Or, it might be more accurate to say that I have been reading his mind. Or I could just say that I’ve been reading his book…
Anyways, I’m about 60 pages into his new book and he is [...]
Doing some site maintenance just for the fun of it. If things look screwy I apologize.
Update: So, I moved to a two column scheme. What do you think? Is it easier to read? Easier to find things? Let me know…
Intro: Below is the sermon manuscript that I preached on August 10, 2007 after my wife and I and our new son Mason got home from Guatemala. I meant to post this a long time ago, but I had to make a few edits. I didn’t really make all the edits and I [...]
Today I launched a new website for a good friend Davis Taylor. He’s on the leadership team at The Well and I consider him a very important mentor in my life.His book, The Imperfect Leader, “explores the not-so-secret secrets of transformational leadership—the kind of leadership that effectively executes a worthy mission—the [...]
I don’t have just one blog post in me so here goes a list of random things…Â
 The Psalms. Like I said here, I have been reading the Psalms in the morning before I start work, at lunch break and when I finish up for the day. Or, I should say that has been my goal.  I’ve yet [...]
Eugene Peterson writes in his book Working the Angles:
“In short, the Psalms provide the language, the aspirations, the energy for the community as it comes together in prayer, and they then call into being and are formative for the activities of prophets, wise men and historians. The Psalms initiate; the prophets follow.  The inner action of prayer takes precedence over [...]