In: leadership
19 Mar 2009I was listening to a church planter today talk about his vision of having a church in DC meeting in community centers and defunct church facilities. I was reminded of a pearl of advice from Dr. Elmer Towns - “Big mistake planters make is to buy land too quick and build too small.”
I’ve worked [...]
In: discipleship
7 Nov 2008I’m reading a book by Bill Hybels called “Axiom“. Chapter six in titled “Bold Move”. He talks about the fact that we don’t move forward, develop in our leadership, or accomplish anything great for God without bold moves:
You will never take big hills without making bold moves… Incrementalism and innovation make terrible bedfellows. Make a [...]
In: discipleship
5 Aug 2008I am not a church planter, but I was a church pioneer. I joined West Ridge staff 30 months into the church’s life. Over the next eight years I had the privilege of helping to pour the foundation, build the walls and raise the roof on an exciting church. Early on, we became committed to [...]
For Ezra had set his heart to study the law of the LORD and to practice it, and to teach His statutes and ordinances in Israel