My First Raise and Why I Turned it Down…how wise and kind shepherds helped a scared young preacher
I’d been at this church about a year. It was my second full-time work. I was twenty-four years old. The...
How to Build and Maintain a Dysfunctional Group: “I know..but we need” (You can’t take enough vitamins to make poison good for you.)
How many times have you known someone in a congregation (elder, preacher, deacon, Bible teacher, man, woman) who is toxic...
“A bishop then must be blameless”…how in the world do you do that?
My observation: a great weakness of many leaders (preachers, elders, parents, others): the hard rule they have that they won’t...
Deer Park, Texas, NSO Workshop # 15
…a relationship that started 47 years ago I’d never heard of Deer Park, Texas before October 1972. Malcolm Hill was...
River Road Leadership Workshop
New Shepherds Orientation Workshop # 14 April 26-28 was the weekend of the New Shepherds Orientation Workshop for River Road....
Book of the Quarter, April 29, 2019
Behavioral Covenants in Congregations: A Handbook for Honoring Differences, by Gilbert R. Rendle, Copyright © 1999 by The Alban Insitute,...
Best Shepherd Training I’ve Seen
…when shepherds shepherd shepherds It was a Sunday afternoon elders’ meeting. Immediately after opening prayer, one of the men said,...
To Fix This Church…
…a few good funerals What do people mean when they have death wishes for leaders? I’ve heard them countless times....
Trip to Israel
December 29, 2019-January 9, 2020 Have you dreamed about visiting the land where Jesus walked? Would you like to see...
Are We a Friendly Church?
who would tell us? I don’t recall anyone ever saying he or she was a member of an unfriendly church....
