Actually, it was a vision, not a nighttime dream. My wife just shared it with me yesterday afternoon, and I remembered her original ‘vision’, back in 1990, when we were in the process of launching CLC through a series of telemarketing to 14,000 families and follow-up mailings to about 1,900 who expressed interest in [...]

What a weekend! I don’t remember when I’ve been this tired, but it’s all good.
After that incredible Leadership Retreat on Friday & Saturday, we went right into the 3 weekend services in Tinley and all 3 were bigger than usual - I’m sure by the time I get the reports tomorrow, we will have [...]

Well, kinda. In my last post, I said the adrenalin was starting to wear off about 2 hours after our MEGA retreat opening session had ended. The truth is, when I awoke this morning before 5am, the adrenalin was still there.
I can’t help it - I’m pumped. When I think about how [...]

We kicked off our annual MEGA leadership retreat for CLC tonight. The first session ended over 2 hours ago, and the adrenaline is just now starting to wear off! I laughed (a little), and I cried (a lot) with the largest group of leaders we’ve ever assembled - not sure the total count, but there [...]

I know some of us 50-somethings are entering the 21st century reluctantly, kicking & screaming as we go - but I’m not one of ‘em. (Well, I am in the 50-something group, but I like technology). Today I had one of the neatest surprises of the year:
Between the 2 Sunday services I was [...]

Boy, I dunno when I’ve enjoyed preaching/teaching as much as I have this summer during our “Road Trip 4 God” series — and all your comments have blessed me, too — I love knowing that people are ‘getting it’!
This weekend I felt impressed to ask us all to commit to a 7-week sprint rather than [...]

At last it can be told: I just now hung up the telephone, and this morning we ‘officially’ acquired our 3rd campus - in South Bend, IN!
Many of you know John Nordstrom, Sr. who has served on our Board of Directors since it’s estabishment in 1993. John & his wife Phyllis have been in pastoral [...]

Some of the recent comments, both here and in the halls of CLC have made me think perhaps you don’t realize that you don’t have to manually come to this site to see if I’ve posted anything new and interesting (I’ll give you a hint: sometimes even when it’s new, it’s probably not so interesting [...]

If not, please do; this is a bombshell:
we’re about to open another church!No, not the one I’ve been writing & talking about for the past several weeks. A Korean church, right here at CLC!
We were approached in December of last year about the possibility of opening a Korean-speaking church, to be pastored by a [...]

We’ve been promoting Mark Batterson’s visit to CLC next month (August 11-12, all 3 weekend services) lately and I didn’t realize until yesterday that we had already SOLD OUT of the 2 cases of his book, In a Pit with a Lion on a Snowy Day. So today we ordered 2 more cases for [...]