Lead Pastor at The Glade Church. Helping pastors lead with conviction, clarity, and humility... so churches grow healthier and disciples grow deeper.
Mt. Juliet, TN
Joined April 2023
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Faithful ministry takes more than good intentions. Biblical conviction. Healthy leadership. Better decisions. Sustainable rhythms. I write about shepherding people well and building healthier ways to lead and serve.
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Jesus accomplished eternal redemption once for all, and this morning we gathered in Hebrews 9 to remember it together around the communion table. 🙏 Thankful for a church that rests in a finished work.
We’ve been on the same team in life for years, but there’s one Saturday every fall… well, you know. 😁
The trash talk is real, and the bragging rights last an entire year.
I love her every day of the year… but today, it’s GO BIG ORANGE! 💪🏼🔥💯🏈
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Our family mission trip leaves today for Lighthouse Christian Camp in Smithville. On Sunday we prayed over these families and sent them out. Please pray for safe travels, open hearts to the gospel, and joyful service. #TheGladeChurch #LiveSent
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Thank you, pastors and ministry directors, for your faithfulness. We see you, we’re grateful for you, and we’re praying for you. 🙏
#PastorAppreciationMonth #TheGlade
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We're renovating our middle and high school spaces to make room for the students God keeps sending our way. Skilled or unskilled, there's a job for you.
Oct 10, Oct 17, Nov 7 at 8 AM. Sign up for one or all three: thegladechurch.churchcenter.…
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Delayed obedience is not neutral. It's still disobedience. What has God made clear that you keep explaining away?
We know how to stop moving while our souls keep running. Trusting Jesus does not mean doing nothing. It means faithfully doing what belongs to us while surrendering to Christ what belongs only to Him. Work diligently. Sleep imperfectly. Stop carrying the universe.
1/5 Pastors rarely suffer from a shortage of worthy work. We suffer from too many worthy things competing for limited attention. A simple Faithful Leadership Audit can help: Reduce. Prioritize. Plan. Execute. Measure.
4/5 — Execute
Do the faithful work in front of you. Clarity without action becomes another form of avoidance. You do not need to control every outcome. You do need to take the next obedient step.
Delegating gets work off your plate. Developing puts responsibility into another person's hands. Let someone facilitate, lead the prayer, organize care, or teach. Give responsibility before titles. Your best people need opportunities, not just encouragement.
Congregational singing is not a solo act. We sing to God, but we also sing to one another. We remind weary people what is true. We preach the gospel to our own hearts. When the church sings together, truth moves from the page to the heart—and from the heart to the world.
One hour of reading rarely feels dramatic. That is why its power is easy to miss. Consistency restores attention, strengthens thought, and slowly shapes identity. Intensity gives us a memorable day. A faithful rhythm can give us a different mind.
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Baby dedication is this Sunday! 👶 This Sunday, families are committing to raise their kids in the truth of God's word, and we're committing right alongside them, to pray for them, encourage them, and walk with them every step. Join us! 🙌
“Listen before you prescribe. Discern before you decide. Build before you launch.”
Many leadership mistakes are not failures of effort. They are failures of attention. We move toward the answer before we have understood the people, the problem, or what God may already be doing.
So helpful! Wanting Christianity to influence our culture isn’t the same thing as believing the state must formally establish Christianity. Christian influence is strongest when it grows from the ground up.
We don’t need to merely declare Christian influence. We need to live it.
When Christian nationalists criticize views like mine for supposedly offering theological justifications for liberal democracy, then Christian nationalism fares no better, for it is quietly beholden to the state and political conditions for its own legitimacy. In that form, Christian nationalism is often a form of Christian Hegelianism, wherein the operations of the state drive history—and the Kingdom of God—forward. Making the legitimacy of one’s political theology dependent on the state’s privileging it evinces a structural weakness in the program itself. The idea that the Kingdom of Christ requires formal dependence on, and enactment through, the state insults the efficacy of the blood of Christ. wng.org/opinions/michael-sco…
A healthy disciple-making ministry does three things:
It teaches truth.
It shepherds people.
It builds systems and future leaders.
Teaching without shepherding is impersonal. Shepherding without leadership is reactive. Leadership without truth loses its center.