The Mother of Invention
The Republic by Plato contains the phrase, "Necessity is the Mother of Invention." Adapting Plato's claim to the present day, [...]
March 2020
November 2018
Something’s Coming!
West Side Story is an amazing musical - a sung version of Romeo & Juliet set in the urban jungle [...]
August 2018
Daily Revitalization
I'm often asked how long it should take for a church to revitalize. This question is incredibly difficult to answer [...]
July 2018
The GO Center Becomes Self-Aware Part 2
The move to Phoenix, AZ, in the summer of 1993 made sense. An eighty-seven year old church had declined down [...]
June 2018
The GO Center Becomes Self-Aware Part 1
A story is continuing to unfold and I want to capture this story by tracking its development in my blog. [...]
FREE Church Lifecycle Assessment
FREE Church Lifecycle Assessment Every church is somewhere on the church lifecycle and it's important to know just where. Is [...]
May 2017
Sending Cheap Signals
Nassim Nicholas Taleb is bending my mind. I've just started reading his New York Times bestseller, The Black Swan: The [...]
July 2016
Permanent Half-Mast
As usual, I was up early this morning. I made the familiar drive to a local shopping area to visit [...]
March 2016
Glory and Beauty
I'm sitting in a cafe in Civitnova Marche, Italy, on the Adriatic coast checking my email. My wife, Sharon, and [...]
March 2015
Christ-Centered Arts
The world of the arts is a world of fierce competition. There are many more people trying to make it [...]