SpringHill

When God says go.

It caught me off guard: late this winter a friend of mine asked me, “What would it take to get you to leave SpringHill?” Honestly, I told him, I hadn’t thought about it. SpringHill has been such an important place in my life, and the life of my family. Amanda came here first, as a […]

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This is your big red truck moment.

I had heard Enoch Olson’s story before about how God provided the big red truck for camp. But this weekend, when I heard it again, I realized that it wasn’t really about a big red truck. It was 1968 or 69 when our founding director took a phone call from a church less than two hours south […]

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You need more men serving in your youth ministry.

My guess is that you have more women serving as volunteers in your youth and children’ ministries than men. You probably even have more women on staff at your church than men. I’m not mad at you; I just think that if that’s true, it’s time to man up. Generally speaking, women do make up […]

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Face-time beats screen-time every time.

There’s something powerful about raw, unfiltered, unmediated face-to-face interaction that’s just better than… well… everything else. Now, I’m not totally anti-social-media, or against all television viewing or computer use. In fact, a quick survey will show that even in my house there is a screen-to-human ratio of 2.2 to 1. But the “social” interaction we […]

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