The easternmost commuter artery in Chicago is known as Lake Shore Drive. It serves upwards of 160,000 commuters per day, and it’s not the sort of street that features a bike lane (except on Bike the Drive Day when bicycles take over). If you were to look down on Lake Shore Drive over the course […]
Category: Church
The Sanctification House.
Building a house takes time. There are endless steps, all sequenced, specialized, and permitted. Some stages call for machinery, while others demand painstaking, knuckle-bruising labor. Expertise and exertion, struggle and time. We’re watching this unfold in our neighborhood, cinder block by cinder block. What began as an empty lot suddenly featured a large cement pad […]
Seven things I learned about wishing for a do-over.
A Wrinkle in Time once came up in a meeting. Someone asked, “What would your future self tell you to say if you came back to this meeting?” We’ve all wished for a do-over. To have shared our hunch that turned out to be right, or not shared a comment based on what we felt […]
The hurricane house.
Two years ago, a passing hurricane dropped a tree onto the roof of a nearby house. Not just a few low-hanging branches, but an entire tree, resting perpendicular to the ridgeline from the backyard to the front. It was a tragedy, and the neighborhood grieved for the homeowners. Thankfully, it didn’t remain a tragedy. Once […]
Board Reports & Jesus’ Return.
As the cliché goes, the best time to prepare for next quarter’s board meeting is the day after you leave this quarter’s board meeting. That’s when the board’s interests are clear and compelling, and you can harness all the seasoned wisdom and savvy anecdotes you just gleaned from a curated team of experts. Which elements […]
