Leonard Sweet is the author of Soul Tsunami and The Gospel According to Starbucks, as well as 28 other books. He was one of the session speakers at the Wired conference at Saddleback Church. Here are some of his thoughts with a little commentary.
Churches should live out of the past not live in the past.
As [...]
Entries from February 2008
February 25, 2008
Leonard Sweet’s discussion about the church
February 21, 2008
8 Laws of Growth
Rick Warren described 8 laws that affect spiritual growth.
Spiritual growth is intentional: we grow by making commitments.
Spiritual growth is incremental: we grow through a process; step-by-step. A mushroom takes 6 hrs. to grow, an oak tree takes 60 yrs…which one do you want to be?
Spiritual growth is personal: we grow according to our shape (how [...]
February 19, 2008
Why we do small groups
I’m in So. California for three days at Saddleback’s small groups conference. There are so many great conferences being offered this year that it’s hard to choose. I’m especially attracted to those that focus on new church plants since that’s what we are. But, I chose this conference because small groups are so vital for [...]
February 18, 2008
God is great!
Need to share this great healing story. One of the women in our congregation started suffering from several ailments since last October. One of the problems was with her liver but the doctors couldn’t find what was causing the pain; a potentially very serious situation. We’ve been praying for her healing along with many others. [...]
February 16, 2008
OMM — Feb. 16
Finishing our 40 in the Word series this Sunday. It was a fun series and we’re believing for God’s word to continue its work in people’s lives. It was a good series but I’m ready to move on to our next one. I’m excited about our next series. We got all [...]
February 7, 2008
Rick Warren on “The Colbert Report” with Stephen Colbert
Watch Pastor Rick Warren be “interviewed” by comedian Stephen Colbert here.
I thought he did well in a very tough venue.
February 3, 2008
OMM — Feb. 3
Good services today with some fresh faces in the evening service. I’m liking the evening service. We still need to improve on a lot of areas, but I think there’s some real potential. Our overall attendance is averaging 140.
We’re still working for the “flywheel effect” as described in Jim Collins’ book Good To Great. You [...]
