About Me
- I'm the lead pastor of Five Oaks Community Church in Woodbury, MN where we seek to help people CONNECT with others and God, DEEPEN their relationship with Christ and IMPACT the world for Christ. I also do a pretty mean Kramer imitation.
Recent Reads
Greg L. Hawkins: Move: What 1,000 Churches Reveal about Spiritual Growth
Eugene H. Peterson: Eat This Book: A Conversation in the Art of Spiritual Reading
Paul Miller: A Praying Life: Connecting with God in a Distracting World
Jim Collins: Great by Choice: Uncertainty, Chaos, and Luck--Why Some Thrive Despite Them All
Todd Henry: The Accidental Creative: How to Be Brilliant at a Moment's Notice
Howard Schultz: Onward: How Starbucks Fought for Its Life without Losing Its Soul
Leadership Favorites
David Allen: Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity
Jim Collins: Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don't
Henry Klopp: The Ministry Playbook: Strategic Planning for Effective Churches
Tim Stevens: Simply Strategic Stuff: Help for Leaders Drowning in the Details of Running a Church
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Categories
- Behind the Scenes
- Blogging
- Books
- Comments
- Compassion
- Current Affairs
- Family
- First Impressions
- Food and Drink
- Football
- I'm thinking about...
- Ideas
- Impact
- Japan
- Leadership
- Life
- Marriage
- Mid-Week Memo
- Movies
- Multi-site
- P.E.A.C.E.
- Parenting
- Party
- Politics
- Q & A
- Salt & Light
- Sharing Our Faith
- Small Groups
- Spiritual Formation
- Sports
- Stuff
- The Church
- Thinking About
- Vision
- Weekend Reflections
- Worldview
- Worship
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Disclaimer
- I'm the lead pastor at Five Oaks Community Church, and I'm writing this blog as the lead pastor. That doesn't mean the church (i.e., the people, the Board, the institution) agrees with everything I post in this blog. If it did, I suppose this would be a boring, watered-down, institutional blog. What you get here are some behind the scenes looks into our church and into my head.
