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Top 25 Blog Posts Of 2011 Part Three December 29, 2011

#5 – Four Types Of Staff Members

#4 – What A Wife Should NEVER Do!

#3 – 10 Reasons I SHOULD NOT Be Dating Him/Her

#2 – My Thoughts On Hell & Rob Bell

#1 – My Wife Had A Bad Experience At Chic-Fil-A!

A Huge “thank you” to everyone for visiting this site this year…

Happy New Year, REALLY looking forward to 2012!

Top 25 Blog Posts Of 2011 Part Two December 28, 2011

#15 – 12 Things A Leader Simply Cannot Do

#14 – Seven Things I Cannot Expect

#13 – Seven GUT CHECK Questions For Staff Members

#12 – My Thoughts On The Elephant Room

#11 – Seven Things To Keep In Mind In Regards To Sexual Sin

#10 – What A Husband Needs To Understand About His Wife

#9 – A Divine Slap In The Face – Breaking An Online Addiction

#8 – Five Things A Successful Marriage Has To Have

#7 – 10 Questions Staff Members Should Be Asking

#6 – 10 Signs You Are Near A Burnout/Meltdown

#5 – #1 Tomorrow…

Top 25 Blog Posts Of 2011 Part One December 27, 2011

Here are the most popular blog posts of the year…

#25 – 12 Reasons Why I Was Broke…And How You Can Get Out Of Debt

#24 – Don’t Miss This (Basically An Announcement About NLC)

#23 – Six Steps To Overcoming Obesity Part One (AND HERE is Part Two)

#22 – You Should Never Hire The Person…

#21 – 10 Reasons I Will Not Be Participating In Shopping On Black Friday :-)

#20 – You Seriously Need To Come To NLC, Here’s Why (Another Announcement About NLC)

#19 – Rollin’ With An Entourage

#18 – A Quick Statement About My Dad (after my father passed away in July)

#17 – Ten Reasons I Think Your Marriage Is Going To Make It

#16 – 10 Ways To Fail

#15 – #6 tomorrow…

Seven Things You Have GOT TO Read! October 26, 2011

I love to write.  I began this blog in May of 2005 and have enjoyed pouring into it every week.

However, there are days when I read so many awesome things online that I just want to share them…and so today I would love to point you to a few amazing articles that I’ve read recently that I would highly recommend that you read

#1 – This article by Thom Rainer on “Five Warning Signs Of Declining Church Health” is a MUST READ–WOW!

#2 – This article by Dr. John Piper on eight things to do in regards to leading leaders in making decisions (leading up) is AMAZING!

#3 – Tony Morgan wrote an article on 7 Questions To Ask In Regards To Who Should Be On Your Leadership Team that is AWESOME!

#4 – I LOVE the brutal honesty by Carlos Whitaker in this post about wrestling with doubt!

#5 – Clayton King did an EXCELLENT job in this post about Five Ways To Appreciate Your Pastor

#6 - PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE read this article posted by JD GREAR…one of the MOST LIBERATING and HUMBLING things I’ve ever read…caused me to CELEBRATE like crazy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

#7 – For those who may be interested, I mentioned that I began this blog in May of 2005…here is the first post I ever wrote (actually, it was the 2nd, my first was a post announcing I was blogging!)

Top 20 Posts Of All Time – Part Two September 29, 2011

Continuing the countdown from yesterday…

#10 – Eight Reasons Some Churches Do Not Grow

#9 – What A Wife Should NEVER DO

#8 – “This Sh_t Is Awesome!”

#7 – 10 Reasons I Should Not Be Dating Him/Her

#6 – Nice Christian Boys And Girls Make Me Sick

#5 – 15 Signs That A Church Is In Trouble

#4 – My Thoughts On Hell & Rob Bell

#3 – Masturbation

#2 – The Pastors Pain (Great post for pastors who are frustrated b/c it seems no one understands what they are going through.)

#1 – Attention Pastors, Keep Your Penis In Your Pants!

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Top 20 Posts Of All Time – Part One September 28, 2011

So, I’m taking a bit of a writing break this week as I am traveling in Estonia and in the UK (going to try to update via twitter and this site.)  So, I won’t actually be publishing anything new this week; however, I did have our communications area do a little research and so today and tomorrow I will be linking the top 20 posts of all time since I began this site (back in May 2005!)  Today #20-#11…

#20 – Every Single Dude And Dude-ette Should Read This

#19 – Ten Signs You Are Near A Burnout/Meltdown

#18 – Thought On Pornography

#17 – How To Be Pursued By A Guy

#16 – Eyes Locked (One Of My Personal Favorites)

#15 – Eight Things I Think Every Worship Leader Should Know

#14 – Ten Questions Unchurched People Are NOT Asking!

#13 – Lucretia’s White Chocolate Cake Recipe (This one surprised me, had no idea it got this many hits…but, to be fair, this is my FAVORITE cake!)

#12 – Six Signs The Dating Relationship Is In Trouble

#11 – Five Things A Single Dude Needs To Know

#10 – #1 Tomorrow!  :-)

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Top 20 Blog Posts in 2010 (#10 – #1) December 30, 2010

#10 – 15 Books That Have Impacted Me Personally

#9 – 11 Questions We Should Ask About Our Marriage

#8 – My Thoughts On Health Care Reform

#7 – Sunday Night Reflections…And Zac – note, Zac’s video is at the end of this post…every time I watch it I miss him more and more, yet I know he is more alive right now than I have ever been!

#6 – Every Single Dude & Dudette Should Read This – this was a repost originally written by Clayton King!

#5 – Hey NewSpring (And Every Church)…Let’s Step Up And Be The Church – this post was written in response to the Nashville flood where I encouraged people to rally behind my friend Pete Wilson and his church as they did ministry “on the ground” to the hurting and the hopeless!)

#4 – Ten Signs A Leader Is Losing It!

#3 – Pastors and Sexual Sin

#2 – Ten Questions That Unchurched People ARE NOT ASKING!

#1 - Eight Reasons Some Churches Do Not Grow

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