I have been reading and studying the gospel of Matthew along with friends in my church, and it has been pretty mind blowing. This Sunday I am going to be speaking from Matthew 13, where Jesus likens our hearts to soil. For me personally, the analogy is challenging. Have I let what is true be [...]

Maybe He should have hired a firm. The advent of Christ was a time-splitting event, forever altering history and human hearts. You would think God could have thought through a better marketing plan. A young mother, painfully pregnant, stuck in Bethlehem for a government census (the timing!). While in town for the census, she goes [...]

Tylenol shouldn’t be at the top of your Christmas wish list. I mean, come on. Every year it happens, even amongst throngs of people who say they’ll resist it: turmoil over the Christmas season. Why? Why would we ever choose this? And I use ‘choose’ very purposefully. See, I think that all of the stress, [...]

Hey, friends – just wanted you to know that you can go to www.fountainaudio.com and download MP3′s of our Sunday Messages from the Fountain Church. Search by month, speaker, or just click on our podcast link to have it all downloaded automatically to your computer. Good stuff!

I was thinking this past weekend about the national celebration of independence here in the United States.  It is a moment to commemorate and celebrate freedom – and that’s a good thing.  For many, though, it has become a weekend to eat BBQ and watch fireworks. Allow this disclaimer: I really enjoy BBQ! It’s great. [...]

Hey, friends – just wanted to let you know that Fountain Church MP3′s of Sunday Messages are back up at www.fountainchurch.com!  We have the last two weeks available for now, and will be making previous weeks available soon.

I’m only three chapters in to Organic Leadership: Leading Naturally Right Where You Are, by Neil Cole, but so far, so good… as with the other things I’ve read by him. Neil Cole is very adept as stripping away the institutional trappings that hinder churches, and see the vibrant power of organic churches – and leaders. The [...]

It’s a changing world.  There are new challenges to face, and leaders must be able to discern not only how to navigate change, but how to do so in a way that keeps the church/organization/business moving through the “change waters” with her! The Change-Resistant Saboteur Here are some scenarios that saboteurs love: “We’ve never tried that [...]

By the time you notice a saboteur’s handiwork, it’s too late:  the damage is done.  Of course, we have to guard ourselves from a myriad of things every day that can take us out, but even after a shootout, we can still shoot our own foot! Today’s Leadership Saboteur:  The Authoritarian  A Saboteur that poses under the [...]

The tricky thing about saboteurs:  they are trained to go under the radar.  That’s why they are so effective; they do their work undetected.  Usually you don’t notice the work of a saboteur until things have blown up in your face, and the damage has been done.  In the wreckage, you notice the blind spot that [...]