Well as most of you read last night about my plans, I got my hair cut this morning. It was a sad goodbye to my long hair but it was time for it to go.That was a picture of the mullet that I had during the haircut process. Here are some before/after pics. Pretty different [...]

#3 How Can We Allow Church Politics to Exist without Negativity 1. Hold your role loosely. As I talked about before, once you start feeling like you deserve whatever you are doing, 2. Leave gracefully (allow someone to leave under good terms)Randy Mooney has a great post about this. 3. Don’t allow legalism to creep [...]

I last cut my hair towards the end of April. Back then I was a suit wearing businessman. So its been about 6 months. I know some of you are amazed but I did go 9 months without a cut between my freshman and sophomore years of college. So this isn’t all that bad. There [...]

One of my favorite churches to glean from is LifeChurch in Oklahoma. Their pastor has been doing a short blog series called “spiritual esteem” that has really got me thinking. It is easy to do ministry for people because a lot of ministry is trying to reach people for Jesus. However, I think Lifechurch’s pastor [...]

I know I’m not alone in this one. Tonight is one of those nights. I’m listening to some acoustic music, Phil Wickham and Shane and Shane trying to just relax. I wear stress in my back by my shoulders. It is like rubber bands pulling my muscles toward my spine. It is a confining feeling, [...]

#2 Why Politics Exist in Churches… 1. I think this is partly because people are passionate about their beliefs. Churches have to be able to make decisions and this can create politics. People accept Jesus and one of the after effects is that they are going to be convicted about different things they are doing [...]