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It’s always amazing to me how fast news travels, and so this is my attempt to get ahead of the jungle drums and let you know about an important change happening for me and our family.
WHAT’S THE BIG NEWS? The big scoop is that, as of 28 March 2010, I will no longer be [...]
Filed by ob1 at February 1st, 2010 under church, leadership, life
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“A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they will never sit in.” –Ancient Greek Proverb
Our world is being consumed by consumers. They’re everywhere. And the Church is not immune to the effects of consumerism. Tragically, in many respects, one of key approaches to growing a local church is [...]
Filed by ob1 at January 28th, 2010 under church, leadership, life
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If you’re looking for a highly intelligent and sensible discussion about the existence and implications of God in the world from an elite mathematician, then you MUST listen to this.
John Lennox is Professor of Mathematics at Oxford University. I would LOVE to see him in debate and dialogue with Richard Dawkins, whose writings to [...]
Filed by ob1 at November 11th, 2009 under church, life, science
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Been thinking about this a lot, and I guess the options are:
1. The devil really did do it
2. God is disciplining us (we don’t like to include this one much, but it’s there in the Bible)
3. We’re dumb and did it to ourselves
4. Someone else was dumb and did it to us (directly or indirectly)
It [...]
Filed by ob1 at October 20th, 2009 under church, leadership
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There’s always a smart alec somewhere who will tell you in the midst of your valleys that “it could always be worse…”
And you usually just feel like smacking them in the snoz.
Last year, we had a very tough year financially as a church, and we really had to dig deep in the faith well to [...]
Filed by ob1 at October 16th, 2009 under church, leadership, life
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This is just plain disturbing. According to a CNN piece, “the more often Americans go to church, the more likely they are to support the torture of suspected terrorists, according to a new survey.”
“More than half of people who attend services at least once a week — 54 percent — said the use [...]
Filed by ob1 at May 4th, 2009 under church, leadership, life, politics
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This past weekend, as part of our Rocky Series, I spoke about COURAGE.
This week, I had a conversation with someone that illustrated to me the need we have to be people of courage as followers of Jesus.
The conversation centred around a particular situation that required resolution but taking those steps to resolve the matter were [...]
Filed by ob1 at April 23rd, 2009 under church, life
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This happens to pastors all the time, especially in smaller churches.
Never ceases to amaze me how far two sets of expectations can be from each other, and how the big evaluation every 3 (or maybe 5) years is a pretty stupid way to go. This is one of the key reasons I [...]
Filed by ob1 at March 25th, 2009 under church, leadership
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I really like this.
This is a real challenge for us in ministry leadership. Connecting with people on the basis of the their felt needs, but navigating them gently towards exploring their real needs. To do this well and genuinely is the sign of great leadership and love.
Sometimes we get it right in authentic [...]
Filed by ob1 at March 17th, 2009 under church, leadership, life
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After being Microsoft Exchange users for some time now, we have begun a new tech adventure by shifting to the far more economical Gmail offering from Google by having our domain hosted through them.
It’s kind of funny, really. We’ve been thinking about the possibility of cutting back our IT costs by exploring options like [...]
Filed by ob1 at March 9th, 2009 under church, tech
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