I'm spending the early part of this week in Lake Junaluska, surrounded not only by the Western North Carolina mountains, but also by 25 fellow clergy who are part of they Reynolds Leadership Program.(It was at one of these events in 2010 that I realized we had to...

There is a major difference between observing ministry and owning it.All too often in contemporary church settings, people do a great deal of observation.They observe the band as it leads in music. They observe the preacher as he or she delivers a message. They...

So we cancelled all activities yesterday, as did the majority of churches in the Charlotte region.All of which gets me thinking about preachers and weather. I never dreamed when I entered ministry in 1990 that I'd waste so much emotional energy worrying about weather...

Still in Moscow. But posting from Charlotte a week earlier.I'll be returning on Friday, August 1. And I'll preach on Sunday the 3rd, continuing our series Things Jesus Never Said. Did you know that he never said, "I came to bring peace on earth"??? This Sunday you'll...