News
All of the event and blog posts from Disciples Church are combined in the news feed below! You can check out Pastor Stu’s latest Leading Thoughts, what’s happening in our missions ministry, and much more.
Note: We’ve only included news and event posts from 2017. If you’re looking for something older, sorry!
Subtraction by Multiplication
We've all heard the term, 'addition by subtraction'. As a church leader there are times when the best way you can lead your organization to the "next level" is to remove a few variables. Most notably, to ask some people to leave. This is true, and also NOT the topic [...]
Legacy living & Improving Your Golf Swing
As a leader your life is under the microscope. There are likely days when you feel your every move is watched, scrutinized and dissected. Grab your kids arm too firm in the mall, and if your luck is like mine, the people who saw it are the husband [...]
Apollo 13 Leadership in the Church
Recently I found myself sitting over coffee with a young and insightful leader who burns with passion, albeit cynical passion, for Christ's church. It's a conversation I've had countless times in the last two years as a first-time church planter. It's a cynicism, which, to some degree I understand. I [...]
Lowly Leaders Welcome
This past Sunday we served communion at Disciples Church. This worship experience is one that has been celebrated since the Last Supper of Christ as a reminder of the price Jesus paid, illustrating our privilege to connect with Him directly. We take a small piece of bread and [...]
Giving & Attendance Trends: Heroin for Church Leaders
As a leader of any sort there are things we measure in the well-intentioned efforts towards illustrating trends. With trends in hand we then evaluate our efforts or the efforts of the project we’re leading. If we are in retail leadership we measure profits, contacts and expenses. If [...]
The Carpool of Life
Recently I was driving with some of our church leaders and dear friends to an event. We could not all fit in one car and as happens many times in life (at least in America) we found ourselves driving several cars to one destination. Now for those of [...]
Snow, Sleds and Cynicism
While away on a family vacation this past week Jen and I spent many hours standing together watching our kids play in the snow. They rolled around in it for hours laughing and playing. Yet without fail, the fun was always followed by the cold and wet feeling [...]
What I learned in 2009
Our Thanks to Tracy & Jeff Watkin for their film making! Practical Life from Disciples Church on Vimeo. Spiritual from Disciples Church on Vimeo. Relationships from Disciples Church on Vimeo.
Raising Resources
There is a saying my cycling coach used to say to me often when I would race foolishly. The saying goes, "You cannot win the race in the first mile, but you can certainly lose the race in the first mile." As it relates to leaders and raising [...]
High Mileage Leader
While there is a certain allure to a brand new car, I've never found myself too impressed by those kinds of cars. You aren't either, I bet. Just think of the conversations you have from time to time with a person about their car. You say, "nice car", "thanks", they [...]