Administering Grace

This is a follow-up to a post from last August . Since we implemented internet access at Grace Church, we've employed a content filter. ...

We've been facing challenges at Grace Church over the past few weeks. In addition to the extra activity surrounding our Easter activitie...

At last year's Leadership Summit, Colin Powell shared his love and hobby of working on his vehicles. In fact, he tinkered with his Volvo...

The internet affords one the option of shopping in the personal comfort of one's home attired (or not) as one chooses. As you've pr...

The value of the Pennsylvania Primary Election was usually lost on me. During the Presidential races I can remember, the nominations were us...

Someone has to fill the role at every church of making sure every T is crossed and every I dotted. If the role goes unfilled, problems event...

Here are my notes from Collins' follow-up monograph specific to the social sectors... All indicators are flawed, whether qualitative, or...

Seeing all of this brings the Good to Great quote to mind, "What can we potentially do better than any other company, and, equally impo...

I have to break in to update you on progress for tonight's women's event. Since men have specifically been instructed to stay away, ...

During the course of my Master's work, I had the opportunity to read Jim Collins' Built to Last . I enjoyed it, but when I heard abo...

I formally counted it up recently, I'm tracking 149 RSS feeds. The majority of those are blog sites, but ESPN and the New York Times he...

I had lunch recently with Mike Gehlert, Camp Director of Camp Conquest . Mike shared some encouraging information with me. Of the approximat...

Without the customary safety instruction card, the steward( ess ) demonstrating the proper operation of a seat belt buckle or the pilot anno...

Dear Staff Members: I am needing to call an emergency staff meeting for this Monday, March 10, beginning @ 9am around the conference table i...

I wonder if flying is in my future? There was the JAARS flight last summer which I chronicled in an earlier post and just last week I had a ...

At a conference I attended several years ago, Ed Young, Jr. did great impersonations of Joel Osteen and Bishop Jakes. He pulled the Osteen i...

I've always liked a good practical joke. The challenge with practical jokes is knowing where the line of demarcation is that indicates w...

To my knowledge, the churches in Antioch, Jerusalem, Ephesus and the others mentioned in the New Testament, are long since gone. I wonder wh...