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There are about 4 books I’m supposed to read in the next week.  However, they had to wait until I could finish The Fall of the Evangelical Nation, by Christine Wicker.  Wicker grew up in the church, but left an number of years ago.  She has been a religion reporter for a number of years. [...]

So today we got a letter we needed so that we can go before the village board and get permission to move into the building & start working! At this point the plan is that we’ll go before the village board on Septmeber 8th! As things fall into place, one of the things we’ll be [...]

This week about 21,000 homes in Tompkins County will be receiving post cards inviting them to one of our two services this weekend. One of my favorite postcard stories came back in 2004…although I didn’t find it funny at the time.  One person got one of our cards in the mail and called wanting to [...]

Over the past several months I’ve found some great books.  I’m going to start using this space to recommend some of them.  If you click on the image, or here, you’ll be taken to the Ithaca Vineyard’s Amazon store where you can read a quick description of the book & purchase if you’d like.

I’m still decompressing a bit after a pretty full week…so I thought I’d write down some brief thoughts as they come to mind… One of the highlights of the past week was without question meeting David Linhart.  David is someone I’ve wanted to meet for a while. David is friends with someone from our church [...]

After spending a couple of days at the center city summit in Boston, I wrapped up the week in NYC at the coaching network I am a part of.  The coaching network is always a great experience & brings to mind a ton of things we can implement to help our church up in Ithaca… [...]

When Liz & I were doing campus ministry in the 1990′s, we started to notice some things that nobody else seemed to be talking about.  Standard methods of talking to students about Jesus, & faith, were becoming less and less helpful.  All they seemed to do was cause people to put up their defenses. As [...]

**note: forgot to hit the publish button last week:) Last week was crazy…but it was a good kind of crazy.   On Thursday & Friday I got to go up to the Willowcreek Leadership Summit (it is already on my calendar for next year).  On Saturday, we took the church leadership team out for a trip [...]

More from the Leadership Summit “In order to reach people no one is reaching, you need to do things no one is doing…to do things no one is doing, we can’t do the things everyone is doing.” “What is God trying to show you through your greatest limitation.”

Traveled up to Syracuse for the Willia Creek Learedship Summit. Some of my favorite quoted: Gary Haugen Do Jesus and I care about the same things? If you want your leadership to matter, lead in things that matter to God. I went on the trip but I missed the adventure. Jesus did not come to [...]