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Monday Morning Quarterback
Stuff I learned on Sunday. “Can you lead this?” “Sure. What is this?” Somebody needs to lead here, and you’ve just been given permission. What do you do with it? It’s tough, because you don’t know...
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Monday Morning Quarterback
Stuff I learned on Sunday The informational meeting doesn’t work for me anymore. Send out an email a couple of weeks in advance inviting people to come hear about, say, the youth mission trip–how to...
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Monday Morning Quarterback
Stuff I learned on Sunday The plea for help doesn’t wait until you’re not doing anything else before presenting itself. Christ’s call to feed the hungry and clothe the naked comes while we’re fighting...
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Monday Morning Quarterback Easter Edition
Stuff I learned on Sunday The pageantry of Easter is for everyone who is there, including those who are only there on Easter. The brass ensemble and “Hallelujah” chorus are not especially tuned for...
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Monday Morning Quarterback
Stuff I learned on my vacation If you can put your work completely out of mind for a time, then how much of a hold does your work have over your imagination? I took a four day vacation with my family...
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Monday Morning Quarterback (Or Things I Learned At Joke Night)
Stuff I learned on Sunday Saturday Roughly 40 people participated in Joke Night this weekend. It was a really fun thing to work on with a courageous and creative team. These are my initial takeaways...
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Monday Morning Quarterback
Stuff I learned on Sunday Read text messages more carefully. “So” can sometimes look like “or,” so make sure the text from a fellow parent stating the time she’s picking up your kid says “I’m leaving...
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Monday Morning Quarterback
The pride I feel at my six year-old daughter’s ability to entertain herself in my office for hours while I’m in meetings splattered across the bathroom baseboards with her sick. On a day that featured...
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Monday Morning Quarterback
Stuff we learned on Sunday Youth Sunday used to be on Mother’s Day in my congregation. After repeated complaints from a small sector of people whose own children were no longer youth, I changed it. Now...
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Monday Morning Quarterback
Stuff we learned on Sunday Youth Sunday, I now realize, is as much about the adult congregation as it is about the teenagers. This annual ritual is a chance, yes, for teens to plan all the music, to...
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Monday Morning Quarterback
The chancel lights aren’t working. The candle holders on the Advent wreath are wobbly and can’t be tightened because the screws are stripped. They’ve been stripped for three years at least, yet another...
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Monday Morning Quarterback
That thing where the seven year-old begs to go with you to the Christmas breakfast at church and then refuses to eat anything but mini cinnamon buns. That thing where your colleague, the Head of Staff,...
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