by Matt Cook | Mar 25, 2020 | future
I still remember the moment I first saw the spaghetti models for Hurricane Florence heading right for us. I’m not a native North Carolinian and most of the folks who’d grown up on the coast told me not worry too much until it was a lot closer, but...
by Matt Cook | Feb 20, 2020 | humility
A few years ago Jim Collins (author of Good to Great) partnered with the Harvard Business School to do a study of what he calls Level 5 leaders. According to Collins, Level 5 leaders make a catalytic impact on the organizations they...
by Matt Cook | Jan 14, 2020 | hope
In the 1950’s a somewhat morbid experiment was conducted by a professor at Johns Hopkins University named Curt Richter. He put wild rats in a container of water and forced them to swim as long as they could before drowning. Most of the rats swam for only a few...
by Matt Cook | Dec 31, 2019 | healthy ministry
When is the last time you noticed a vibration in your car? I’m not a car guy. If my car starts and gets me where I need to go I might not notice some small things that need fixing. When I’m driving down the road and my car starts to shake,...
by Matt Cook | Oct 22, 2019 | future
The very first church I pastored was the First Baptist Church of Rosebud, TX. Rosebud wasn’t exactly a bustling metropolis. We numbered 1459 residents back in the day. I remember going to denominational meetings and professional gatherings and coveting the...
