Innovation3 Highlights #i3
I had a great day of assessment today with Marty Nicholas and the team at Sugar Land First United Methodist. One of the things that Marty mentioned is that he was bummed to have missed the i3 conference by Leadership [...]
Vision is your MVP: Most Valuable Property
My friend Glenn Smith is the founder of New Church Initiatives and a certified Growth Coach. This little snippet came through my e-mail from him:"Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality." - Warren G. BennisGreat leaders [...]
When Small, Short and Plain is Good
I just saw this article entitled Brevity in Church Solutions Magazine by my friend Bob Adams. After some recent meetings with church leaders I was reminded that this simple wisdom can easily be overlooked:"When it comes to effective communication, small [...]
Groeschel on Thinking Different: Culture, Programming, & Mission
Craig Groeschel, pastor of Lifechurch.tv delivered a phenomenal leadership message today at the Catalyst One Day. I am posting notes from it here because the principles are so pertinent to the ongoing work we do each day with our [...]
Blue Ocean Churches
I am getting ready to speak tomorrow at the ChurchPlanters.com conference. Ben Arment will be there, Catalyst's Innovation and Experience Director. I like the way Ben thinks and his recent post on Blue Ocean Churches, reminds me why. But [...]
Exponential Releases Free Leadership Tool
My friend and kingdom master-mind, Todd Wilson of the Exponential Network, has done leaders a favor by filtering and aggregating the best "nuggets of gold" from the blogs of top thinkers and leaders.The name of the E-book which is the [...]
A New Word is Born Every 98 Min.
I don't usually read airline magazines, but I saw this factoid on the airline mag. of the person sitting next to me. A new word is birthed every 98 minutes! Fifteen new words every day- can you imagine that? I [...]
Latency: Buford's Holy Discontent
After spending two days with the leaders of Leadership Network and Half Time, I had the opportunity to dig deeper into the creation story of these two movements. What struck me was the stunning clarity in the life of Bob [...]
9 things to define 2009
This is a great little video on trends that was posted on Adverblog, that I picked up from Kem Meyers blog. See her blog for the content of the video typed out. [...]
Verve: A Church Unique Snapshot
On Friday I had the chance to connect with Vince Antonucci, who has just landed in Vegas to plant a church called Verve. Vince is the author of the book, "I Became a Christian and all I got was a [...]
Leadership and the Art of Word Choice
Imagine boiling down your life and leadership into acompelling collection of 76 principles.Then imagine having to select which one would be first.That’s exactly what Bill Hybels did in his 2008 book release titled, Axiom. The axiom he decided articulate first is no [...]
Risk-worthy Vision
I spoke last week at Leadership Network's, Innovation3 Conference. In the process of thinking more about the concept of risk, I enjoyed these quotes:"If things seem under control, you are just not going fast enough." - Mario Andretti"Security is mostly [...]
