I had the opportunity on Wednesday to participate and live-blog The Gospel Project Webcast, live from the LifeWay headquarters in Nashville.  This event included Matt Chandler, J. D. Greear, Ed Stetzer, and Trevin Wax talking about the new Gospel Project that LifeWay is putting out.  There was a ton of great nuggets during the 2 hour webcast.  I’ll share some notes in three separate posts. Here are some of the raw notes I took on J. D. Greear’s talk: How to we ground our applications and ministry in the gospel? The gospel is not just a prayer that we use to get started.  It’s not...

I had the opportunity on Wednesday to participate and live-blog The Gospel Project Webcast, live from the LifeWay headquarters in Nashville.  This event included Matt Chandler, J. D. Greear, Ed Stetzer, and Trevin Wax talking about the new Gospel Project that LifeWay is putting out.  There was a ton of great nuggets during the 2 hour webcast.  I’ll share some notes in three separate posts. Here are some of the raw notes I took on Matt Chandler’s talk: There are massive amount of 20 and 30 somethings that have kept the rules of the Christian life (Christian moralistic deism), but have...

Today, I’m pleased to introduce you to my pastor, Pat Schwenk.  Pat just started at my church here in Ohio a couple months ago, and I’m glad that he’s agreed to share some thoughts here at the site from time to time.  His first post is about leadership and the different between pleasing people and people pleasing.  I hope you enjoy!  Pat writes: I have never met anyone who liked being disliked. I suppose if such a person existed they would not be fit for ministry. However, I have met thousands of people who either liked being liked too much, or were destroyed by not being liked...

In honor of Catalyst One Day, here’s a Twitter Showdown between Andy Stanley and Craig Groeschel:

Ben Reed has written a great piece I think you should check out here: 7 Phrases a Pastor Should Regularly Say Off-Stage Added in Leadership on 03/12/2012 Source: BenReed.net Though this is important, there are also things that a pastor should regularly be in the habit of saying. And not the passing, “Good to see ya” that every pastor says. Not the trivial phrases that everyone expects. Read More…… What would YOU add to the...