My church, like many, has two different styles of services on Sunday morning. Our first service is essentially a “blended” service (by the way, I hate the word service but I’m using it here because it is a common usage for a gathering of believers on a weekend) with a mix of contemporary songs and…
Fortuitous Bouncing
Sorry I’m about 12 hours late from the normal time I post this. Just haven’t had time with our big moving day coming early today. Speaking of moving, we had a lot of people come out to help us move. We got everything moved out of our old place and into our new place within…
The Future
This is the first in a series I’ll be doing of questions that some of you asked. If you would like to add your question, go here and do so. Today I’ll answer a question from Jan. She asked: So where do you think God is leading you Tyler? After seminary and all, do you…
Missing the Point
I read an interesting post earlier this week by Tim Stevens about the way one church in Mississippi is organizing their weekend worship and music. Essentially they hire a different worship leader each weekend instead of paying one or two people to be the worship pastor (s). Here is how Tim explains their strategy: A…
The Kick Back
I’ve said it plenty of times…social media has a lot of power and a lot of positives. I referred to some of the positives in this post a few months ago. With all the power for positives in social media, there is an equal and maybe greater power for negative influence. I saw a couple…
A View From the Top
As I mentioned last week, I’ve been thinking a lot about hierarchical leadership in the church and the need for the church to move toward a shared leadership model. Here are some things I’ve read that have stood out to me: “A leader who leverages power is illegitimate. A leader who relies only on authority…