Matt is a pastor, businessman, theology student, & massive geek.

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  • The Church and Dating Rules

    The Church and Dating Rules

    (Crowd voices: “Oh boy, another post on dating!”)   I have four daughters (at the time of writing, all under age 8), so this topic feels super relevant for me, and the pace of life is such that I need wisdom on this issue, stat. By way of preface, my wife and I dated in…

  • Shutting Off The E-mail Firehose

    Shutting Off The E-mail Firehose

    The following eight steps will help you overcome e-mail overload. 1. Set up an auto-responder, kindly thanking them for their email, and setting reasonable expectations about a reply timeframe. Thanks for your e-mail. I have received it and will respond as soon as possible.  In an effort to provide better customer service and higher quality…

  • How to Make Your Work Last Forever

    I had a guest post at Blue Letter Bible over the weekend: How to Make Your Work Last Forever.  The post is about some recently realizations I’ve had on what the Bible actually says about our work and how some of it will survive into the new Earth! It’s all about building with gold, silver,…

  • Joy in Bi-vocational Ministry

    Yesterday I wrote a post at Challies.com, sponsored by MereChurch, on a topic that is exceedingly relevant to my life (and many others, I gather!):  Three Roads to Joy in Bi-vocational Ministry. The three roads are: 1. EMBRACE ALL YOUR VOCATIONS AS FROM AND FOR GOD. Because each of the roles you find yourself right…

  • Launch Day: MereChurch – Simple, powerful websites for The Church

    Launch Day: MereChurch – Simple, powerful websites for The Church

    Many of you know that I run a small and mighty Web design/dev agency called Mere. Yesterday we launched the “Grand opening” of our latest service: MereChurch. It has been an exciting two and a half months from conception to launch of what I hope will be a valuable tool for The Church at large.…

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