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Yesterday we started answering the question, “Why Don’t We Have a Men’s/Women’s Group,” here @ the Vineyard, by talking about the vision of our church.  The conclusion of that post is below (if you didn’t ready yesterday’s post, everything will make much more sense if you start there!): ______ Our philosophy of discipleship is again, [...]

There are certain questions that those of us in leadership here @ the Vineyard get asked a lot.  So I thought that we’d take some time over the next few weeks and answer some of those questions. I figured we’d start with one we’ve heard since we first had men or women coming to the [...]

I am not cool.  If you doubt that assessment, feel free to ask my kids or anyone who knew me in high school, you will get a unanimous response, “He has never been cool.”  Over the past few weeks some of the big name, “cool pastors,” have come out and talked about how pastoring is [...]

The talk above is from one of my favorite authors, Seth Godin (a fellow Western New Yorker too) talks at TED about being remarkable.  This idea that you are doing something that isn’t just “cool,” or “neat,” but is worthy of people making remarks about.  While many of his examples are business, it made me [...]

At the Vineyard’s National Leadership Conference last week, the theme was, heroic leadership in a time of change.  One of the speakers used the video below to illustrate just how quickly things are changing. Definitely worth a view.

I tend not to use the phrase “Christian,” all that much…it is not a phrase I use to describe myself, or our church.  For many people who are not connected with God, the word “Christian” stiir up some pretty vivid images, as well as some pretty strong emotions…sadly, most of them are not positive. unchristian, [...]

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 [...]