Tag Archives: Church Life

It’s Easy to Complain When You SIT on the Sidelines.

The college football season is now officially underway, and for many people, life is once worth living again. There is something interesting about watching tribes emerge in fall for this sacred festivity … people gathering for sacred rituals involving grilled Johnsonville Brats, glowing 60″ flat screens, massive amounts of cheap beer, and sometimes heated battles about the prowess of their tribe. [...]

MyBigSecretLife.com

No, it’s really not a website…yet. But I did run across (yawn) another “confess your secret for the world to see and maybe we’ll get some press” website today. Seriously how many of these websites do people need to copy? The site I viewed even has a (yawn) warning: WARNING: This website is recommended for [...]

Are Top Church Lists Beneficial?

Tim Stevens over at Leading Smart wrote a great post about “These Top Church Lists Making Me Groan”. While I commented my thoughts on the topic I wanted to elaborate a little more on it and, in a way, post a personal confession to tie in the point. Top Church Lists can be evil. They [...]

The Most Recognized Church Brands: Part 3

Branding is important to us -even church branding! I was amazed at how many views we had on this current post and I suspect that some people were really looking for the “Top 25 Church Brands of 2007″ or another list of innovative, killer churches. However, this really wasn’t my goal. I wanted to learn [...]

The Most Recognized Church Brands

I am sort of curious to know who you think the biggest, most recognized, or “baddest” churches are – and what do you think of when you hear their name. Please share your list.  Here are a few of mine: Saddleback Church: Rick Warren Willow Creek: CEO Driven Mars Hill, Seattle: Biblically Driven Life Church.tv: [...]