Easter’s Over – Now What? 4 Ways to Maximize Easter Momentum

For those of you in full-time church ministry you likely woke up this morning with a big fat Easter hangover. Easter weekend included additional services, increased attendance, extra events, more production – every aspect of ministry was in overdrive for the biggest weekend of the church calendar. Now what? Frankly, you and your team are […]

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Teams That Thrive

I love great teams.  I love building great teams.  I love building teams of great leaders. I echo John Maxwell… “everything rises or fall on leadership.”  The power of leadership through teams is exponential. Ryan T. Hartwig and Warren Bird have recently written this great book: Teams That Thrive: Five Disciplines of Collaborative Church Leadership […]

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Sunday Highlights

I don’t have a lot of extra commentary for you today.  I’m still wrestling with my place in multi-site ministry now with four campuses.  Some days I feel like I’m needed everywhere and other days I feel like I’m needed nowhere.  Kinda messes with me. Pete’s message kicked my butt, though.  Read at your own […]

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Sunday Highlights – Your Turn

Since I’m still in India and unable to hear Blake‘s message today for the Pursuit series, I would love for you guys to give me Cross Point‘s Sunday highlights! Please leave your notes/comments/thoughts from today’s message in the comments section! And just so you don’t think I’m taking the easy way out.  Here are our […]

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Sunday Highlights

Week 2 of DNA by Pete Wilson Luke 6:12-16 – Jesus chooses his 12 disciples Matthew 22:37-39 – Love God, Love People You don’t have to be the smartest, you don’t have to be the prettiest, but you need to be the most loving. When people think about the church, do they automatically think love?  […]

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Sunday Highlights

Here are my notes from the first message of our DNA series: DNA: Devoting – Pete Wilson My fear for Cross Point is that we’ll begin to rely on things that have nothing to do with the vision God has given us. Acts 2:42-47 – the early believers were radically devoted to Christ, irrevocably committed […]

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Sunday Highlights – Vegas Style

I’ve been in Las Vegas for the last several days with my husband and Pete & Brandi.  We had the privilege to get some time to connect with Jud & Lori Wilhite and to see the amazing impact they are making at Central in Vegas. Here’s some of what I observed from our time with […]

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Sunday Highlights

We had a great Sunday at both campuses this week.  My highlights are a bit delayed because I wanted to give you some media rather than my written highlights. At Cross Point Nashville we wrapped up the Q series with an edge-of-your-seat live q&a session with Pete.  Dickson Campus Pastor, Chad Roberts, moderated questions that […]

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Sunday Highlights

Honestly, I’m not quite sure how to process today yet.  It was an emotional overload… and I’m usually not so good with my emotions. I started the day at Cross Point Dickson and was impacted again by Justin & Trisha Davis’ story.  Justin and Trisha were actually with us in Dickson this morning and it […]

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