People Who Inspire Us #2

PEOPLE WHO INSPIRE US – We think they’ll maximize your creativity, because they sure do a number on ours To help inspire you, we are posting a list of a few of the people who inspire us. This is where we really need a massive Google doc, because you have your...

Because We All Need Some Inspiration Right Now

PEOPLE WHO INSPIRE US – We think they’ll maximize your creativity, because they sure do a number on ours Whether you are planning a dozen worship services, preparing for Christmas parties or working on finals, this is the time in Advent when we all need just a...

Finding the Hungry Hamster

– Kenda Creasy Dean One of my fabulous students, Amber Slate, led a terrific discussion today on Gallup’s Strengthfinders. She told us to beware “the hungry hamster” —referring to a strength that is over-used. Sometimes it goes rogue, cannibalizing so much of...

The Drake Prayer

Thanks to entrepreneurial youth minister Matt Overton, for digging up this prayer – it says better than I can what I hope God will do with Ministry Incubators. And with me. (To join the entrepreneurial youth ministry conversation, go here). The Drake Prayer Disturb...

Begging or Making a Life?

It’s a pendulum swing: the self-sustaining fellowship of believers, and the practice of begging—two time-worn ways we have learned to support ministry.  Whenever we get seduced by the risks of one, somebody shoves the pendulum in the opposite direction. A quick...