I am pretty much a leadership conference/leadership book/leadership blog junkie.
I try to go to some type of leadership training event at least every other month.
I follow about 10 leadership blogs daily.
I attempt to read one leadership book per week.
And after all that, I still feel hungry for more.
Not because there’s a shortage of material on [...]
Ok, so what do you do when it’s 4 am, you’ve been throwing up every hour on the hour all night long, you’ve got around 2000 people you’re supposed to preach to starting in less than five hours, and you’re expecting to baptize over a hundred and fifty people that same morning?
Well, if you’ve got [...]
Our staff sets really crappy goals.
Sorry to use the word crappy, it’s a crappy word to use on a high class blog like this one.
But it’s the only adjective that works.
When we were dreaming up the biggest goals we could set for our second year of ministry (which began in February 2007), this was the [...]
Today is my wife’s birthday.
A.K.A. Holly Day.
I decided to take the opportunity here to tell my woman in front of a few thousand of our closest friends what a stellar human being she is.
And that I really really need her in my life.
Without Holly:
• I would dress like a complete idiot, probably still tight rolling [...]
I listened to Collins’ book on CD a couple years ago, and we’re reading it together now as a staff.
But this entry isn’t about the book. It’s about the title of the book.
It just struck me the other day that this title summarizes the shift I’m trying to make in my preaching methodology lately.
When I [...]
If this post sounds angry, it’s because I am very angry. Just like Jesus.
The other day I heard about a disturbing situation in which a staff member from one church was fussing at a staff member from another church for stealing their ideas.
If the staff member being chastised had been caught bootlegging curriculum, selling the [...]
Song playing on my playlist right now:
Oh Magnify Him, John P. Kee, for the 4th time
Most fun I’ve had with my son recently:
Last Friday, taking Elijah to see water buffalo and giraffes at this cool ranch/farm/petting zoo in the middle of nowhere. They let you drive your car for a drive thru safari kind of [...]
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Pastor Steven Furtick is the Lead Pastor of Elevation Church in Charlotte, North Carolina.
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