As a church leader in Canada, your mission is too important for you to consider your time as merely a commodity to be managed. Your time must be viewed as a powerful weapon to be wielded. But in very practical terms, many leaders continue to have the sharp edge of this weapon dulled by the…
Guest post – Getting Ready to Cast Vision
Today I am very pleased to present this guest post from Andy Cook and our friends at the Willow Creek Association in Chicago. For any church leader getting ready to cast vision for the coming year today’s post provides practical tools and inspiration to gain the most milage from your vision-cast. In this month’s…
Repost – ‘That’s What Christmas is All About Charlie Brown’ …Take 2
In the classic scene from Merry Christmas Charlie Brown, Linus takes centre stage and delivers a most eloquent defense of the true meaning of Christmas. Reciting from Luke’s gospel, Linus reminds the Peanuts gang, and all of us, that at its core, Christmas is about the birth of Christ. If Charles Shultz were ever to…
Repost – How Your Family Can Survive Multiple Christmas Eve Services
If you serve on the staff of a church with multiple Christmas Eve services, you may already feel the tension mounting. You know that this is one of the highest-impact seasons on the church calendar, and yet if you have school-aged children (or younger) no season of the year demands more of your family’s attention.…
3 Things That Irritate Christians About Christmas (and what we should do about it)
For many Christ followers, few things are more irritating than the way the world has “messed up” Christmas. There are at least three distinct ways that many Christians are irritated by Christmas these days. Here’s what I believe they are, and how I believe we should respond. Irritation #1: The Way the World MISPREPRESENTS the…
