3 Sins of Refusing to Rest

Remember the Sabbath day by keeping it holy. Six days you shall labor and do all your work, but the seventh day is a sabbath to the Lord your God. On it you shall not do any work, neither you, nor your son or daughter, nor your male or female servant, nor your animals, nor […]

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My Dream

I’m a closet dreamer. If you meet me you’ll encounter a very practical, problem solving, get-it-done, A-type, responsible individual.  But underneath that composed exterior are some dreams that have been brewing for years.  Dreams that excite me and yet scare me to death.  Dreams that if I shared with someone over a cup of tea […]

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Sunday Highlights

It was an amazing day at all of our campuses today! Worship was amazing KidStuff wrapped up at the Nashville campus with a great celebration. Dickson & North announced FX Live which will be launching in January. North celebrated their very first baptism! Nashville celebrated over 20 baptisms with many of those spontaneous decisions. All […]

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Fearless by Max Lucado

“Envision the day when you can trust more and fear less.” That’s the hope that Max Lucado is trying to inspire in each of us with his very timely new release “Fearless”.  Throughout the book, Lucado talks us through some of our most gripping fears and challenges us to get to this critical conclusion: “when […]

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Fearful or Fearless?

I’m pretty excited to be starting this book tonight!  I got my advance copy this weekend and I’m excited to be blogging about it on September 8th when it releases. I don’t think this book could be any more timely… at least for me. This year has been riddled with fear for me. Fear of… […]

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Change. Fear. How do you deal with them?

I came across this short video clip of Carly Fiorina talking about the dynamics of change and fear.  Every leader and every organization deals with change and the fear of change. Do you rise to the challenge or buckle underneath it? [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3IbKbDhfKw] Btw – One of my favorite leadership memoirs is Carly’s book Tough Choices.

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Sunday Highlights

Today we wrapped up the Paralyzed Series at Cross Point Nashville with Pete‘s message “Surrendering Fear”. In a word… POWERFUL! We rearranged the service order a little bit to allow for a time of worship and surrending our fears at the cross.  Each of us wrote our fears on a card and then at the […]

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Sunday Highlights

We continued the Paralyzed series today at Cross Point Nashville with “Fear of the Unknown”. Matthew Paul Turner was a guest in our services today and shared a reading about “fear”.  I absolutely love Matthew’s wit and sarcasm, while yet conveying some very important truths.  If you missed it, we recorded it so we’ll be […]

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Sunday Highlights

It was a huge day at Cross Point Nashville today! Record attendance KidStuff relaunch Paralyzed Series launch People giving their lives to Christ for the first time! These are the days that I pinch myself and wonder how in the world I get to do this! Pete launched the Paralyzed series with “Fear of Failure”.  […]

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