My wife and I have attended Crossroads Church in Thornton/Northglenn, Colorado for nineteen years. During that time the quarterly men’s breakfast has been consistently well attended. There are several reasons for this success. For example, I can always expect an excellent speaker from either inside or outside the church who […]
Herb Reese
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The coronavirus epidemic came home to me personally last week when a friend of mine and his wife were diagnosed with it on the Diamond Princess cruise ship in Japan. Taken to two different hospitals an hour and a half apart, his case turned out to be mild, but his […]
There’s a cool app that I’ve been using for a couple of years now. It’s called IFTTT, which stands for “If This Then That.” It links different programs and hardware so that, if something happens in one, then it tells the other to do something else. For example, I can […]
I was taught at a very young age to value my life; not just to experience it, but to treasure it, to use it for something better. How could I do that? By believing in and walking with Jesus Christ, I was told. By knowing Jesus and becoming like him. […]
One of the things that fascinates me about the gospels is that none of their authors bothered to describe Jesus’ appearance. They simply thought that knowing what he looked like as he walked the dusty roads of Israel was immaterial. All we know about how Jesus looked was that he […]
Doppelganger: German translation “double-goer”, a non-biologically related look-alike or double of a living person. A few weeks ago, as I walked into my local Starbucks to get my usual tall Pike, no room and settle down for some writing, the barista looked at me and her jaw dropped. “You have […]
After twenty-five years of experience with men’s team ministry, I can quickly discern when a church’s men’s team ministry is doing something right. It’s simple: it has “the wow factor.” The wow factor is hard to define. You just know it when you see it. Below are some examples. You […]
It’s a great morning in Arvada, Colorado. It snowed four inches last night and I have a new snow blower. (Technically, it’s a “snow thrower.” A snow thrower has only one stage that uses the augur to “throw” the snow out the shoot. A “snow blower” has two stages: the […]
For those of you who didn’t read the post, three weeks ago I asked my readers to pray for the State of Delaware. The reason is because Delaware is the only state where I haven’t been able to help a church start a men’s team ministry to their widowed and […]
Since several hundred pastors read my blog, every now and then I like to focus on those of us who are and talk a little shop. For those of you who aren’t, you need to know that good preaching is much more difficult than it looks. Back in the day, […]