12.30.09
Top 10 Ways For Creating A Leadership Culture
Yesterday I posted the Top 10 Ways To Obliterate A Leadership Culture by Jon & Dave Ferguson. However, it leaves me wondering: "How do you nurture a culture that values and practices leadership development?" Well, thankfully enough Jon & Dave were so kind as to also write up a ...
12.29.09
Top 9 Ways to Obliterate a Leadership Culture
Over the course of the past few weeks I've been pondering this list written by Jon & Dave Ferguson about how to easily obliterate a culture of leadership. It's certainly stirred my thinking about how we do things at IKON and ways to move forward as we wrestle with ...
04.29.09
The Church is Dead…
"Every year more than 4,000 churches close their doors compared to just over 1,000 new church starts... Christianity in America won't survive another decade unless we do something now." There's a tremendous disparity between the number of churches that are closing their doors and those that are starting up. As ...
04.10.09
Let’s move beyond Good Friday
I'm not a big fan of Good Friday. As everyone takes today to reflect on Jesus' sacrifice upon the cross, I'm already looking ahead to Sunday. Maybe it's because I've never been much for waiting that I don't particularly like to celebrate Good Friday, maybe it's because I ...
03.23.09
Generosity in Action
Last weekend Tracy and I were able to visit some dear friends in the San Diego area who four months ago planted Momentum Christian Church in the city of Chula Vista. On Sunday morning we were able to share with the entire church about our endeavor in the ...
03.17.09
Single-Serving Friends… enter Ted.
I've been traveling an abnormal amount the past couple of months speaking at churches in Boston, NYC, Chicago, etc, about the new church plant in San Francisco. All of this travel has offered me an opportunity to get to know a few "single-serving friends" (a reference from Fight Club) ...
01.27.09
The Church v. Obama
"The Church is the hope of the world." These are the words Bill Hybels has been preaching at Leadership Summits and Conferences, printing in books and writing in articles for many years, but my question is not whether it's true but if it's actually being lived out by the ...











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