I’m at a satellite location of The Leadership Summit (#tls09) in East Portland today and tomorrow, basically all day. It is the one event that my church consistently attends and makes time for throughout the year. This is actually the first year in over 9 years that we haven’t hosted a feed of the Summit.…
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Look How Far We've Come
Often times I get bogged down in my thinking about where the church and Christianity is today. I go back and forth between thinking really positive thoughts about church and Christianity and thinking about how poorly the church and believers do in theology, relationships, and reaching unbelievers. But I recently read this and it gave…
Portland, Oregon: "Jesus' Favorite City"
Earlier this week the USA Today ran an article on the unique relationship that has been formed between Portland churches, the Luis Palau Organization, and the City of Portland. It is something all of us in Portland have seen play out in the last decade into what is now an extremely rare relationship; it is…
How The Church Can Keep Young Leaders
After posting about the church losing young leaders, I started thinking about how negative my outlook was, mostly because I didn’t talk about ways the church is and can keep young leaders. Churches today are having the hardest time in reaching and then keeping young leaders. Sure the reasons are almost endless, but the fact…
Sovereignty // Anne Jackson
This post is a part of the Sovereignty of God Blog Series going on throughout the months of July and August. You can read about the series and see a schedule of the posts here. You can subscribe to all the posts here. — Today’s post is from Anne Jackson. Anne blogs at Flowerdust.net and…
How The Church Can Lose Young Leaders
You might remember the article the New York Times ran on “The Facebook Generation.” It was basically an article that looked at the implications of the how emerging generations view leadership, power, and influence. Rhett Smith recently dove into one of the points the article brought out: All ideas compete on equal footing. I really…