1. A little help from my friends…

    I will be speaking at a national conference on multi-site churches in Chicago next month.  (This is not a shameless promotion of the conference…I think it is full.) 

    I need your help.  Frankly, I don’t just want to… Read more


  2. Who are we?

    The church I serve, Seacoast, has become known as a "multi-site" church…fair enough I guess, since we are one church worshiping in nine separate locations.  We didn’t plan it that way…I guess you would call us accidental muti-siters…But in… Read more


  3. A great weekend

    It was a great weekend…Chris reports on adding a second service in Greenville…a visitor reports on his experience in Savannah…downtown was rocking according to Geoff…Long Point, the Annex, and Summerville joined together to baptize about 100 people… Read more


  4. Happy birthday

    She would have been 69 today. She was my age when we first heard the "c" word…"it happens to other families, not ours", I remember thinking. She left us 14 years ago…I still feel more sadness than joy when I… Read more


  5. Kick-off party

    Last night I attended the 40 DOC kick-off party at the Long Point campus…what a blast! They used the theme of a tailgate party, complete with marching band, goal posts, cheer leaders, referees doing the parking (does that say something… Read more


  6. Help

    I need your help!

    I am speaking this weekend on the importance of community…the big idea is simply this:  Jesus died so that we could have community with God…what needs to die so that we can have community with others?… Read more


  7. Focus

    This weekend we looked at the importance of focus in becoming "world class".

    I reflected on several world class individuals that I came into contact with during our summer break: a pastor in India (D. Mohan); the best guitar player… Read more


  8. Things that really bug me…

    1. Gas pumps without the little prop thing that allows you to let go while you are putting gas in your car
    2. Long preachy e-mails
    3. E-mails that are forwarded more than once…(if it’s important that I see it,

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  9. I’m proud

    I’m proud of the response by our church to hurricane Katrina.  As usual, you guys have opened your hearts in incredible ways. Let me just list a few of the ways:

    1. You have given somewhere around $100,000 cash to

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  10. How did I live without…

    1. Quickverse
    2. Treo 650
    3. Bloglines
    4. Satellite radio (XM)
    5. Leadership Network
    6. Bluetoothe
    7. ESPN
    8. Sony Vaio T series
    9. The internet
    10. iPod

    How in the world did Paul write most of the NT without them?