The Simpleton Blog

Today we are continuing our series called “All Hands on Deck” - and we’re going to tell the story of a guy who rebuilt the walls of Jerusalem in only 52 days, but he did it with 41 different work crews, and all of them had the same mentality: the job gets done, when everyone owns a piece. So let’s dive in. If you want to grab your bible, we are going to be in Nehemiah, chapter 2 and 3, but we’ll start in chapter 2. And while you’re looking that up, I want to give you a bit o

[You can watch the whole message HERE, or just keep reading!] What does it mean to be faithful? I feel like the answer to that is always couched in the negative. Don’t cheat. Don’t wander. Don’t drift. But what does it actually look like in our life? Like, I know what it is not - but what IS it? What does it look like to be proactively faithful? What IS faithfulness? Some of you know this - I was on vacation two weeks ago. My parents have a little place on a lake a couple hou

[You can watch the full message HERE, otherwise keep reading!] I don’t know about you, but when I was growing up - I did not pay a lot of attention to Christian denominations. I grew up methodist, but that didn’t really mean anything to me - that was just the name on the side of the building we always went to. In my town, there were other types of churches - Lutheran and Baptist and whatnot, but I pretty much had no idea the details. It’s funny - the CRC church, Christian Ref

Pastor’s Bookshelf - Welcome to my bookshelf! Each month I will discuss a recent book that I’ve finished. This month I’d like to talk about The Six Types Of Working Genius By Patrick Lencioni I was recently invited to attend a leadership summit in Texas and we were encouraged to read this book and take the assessment in preparation for our discussion. [Sidenote: I do not recommend the assessment - in just reading the book, it's pretty easy to self-select which competencies