I can’t stand to do something that’s just good enough.
It torments me when I feel like I pass with a C+.
Like the other day, in a production meeting, we were looking over the coming Sunday’s service.  It was a good service.  Good enough.  It wasn’t great, though.
And we knew it.  We could have gotten by [...]

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I was a horrible pitcher in my Little League days.  I had a bad habit of trying to place my pitch.  I tried so hard to place the ball precisely in the strike zone that I achieved the opposite result: I rarely ever threw a strike.
My coach (my dad) tried to teach me:
Son, you can’t [...]

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In the songwriting jungle, melody is king.
For a few years before I became a pastor, I messed around a bit as a songwriter.  I wasn’t phenomenal at it, but I approached it-like I approach most things in life-with a lot of passion and intensity.
As I got to know different successful songwriters, one common theme emerged [...]

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I’m honored that lots of pastors all over the world read this blog. And as another weekend of preaching and teaching quickly approaches, I thought I’d pass along to Senior Pastors everywhere something one of my friends and mentors shared with me.
Craig Groeschel recently challenged me to stop overcooking my sermons.
This doesn’t mean study [...]

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