Bryan Bigger

Lead Pastor at New Hills Church

[Bryan Bigger @BryanBigger]

@richvillodas How long was your sabbatical? Any insights for other pastors who may take one down the road?

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@ryanvisconti At what size did you start to feel the tension ease? We are 1,500 but it still feels like a very transitional season as we evolve into a genuinely large church.

[M.A. Franklin @FoundationDads]

A child who memorizes a psalm at age 7 might not understand it.

But at seventeen, in the middle of the night, when the world is pressing in and he doesn't know what to do, the words might surface at the precise moment he needs them. They will be there because you put them there.

This is the work of a parent. You are planting things for your children that might not bloom for a decade (or more). Scripture, poetry, the great speeches of greater men.

[Bryan Bigger @BryanBigger]

Does @AmericanAir know how to offer a flight that does not get delayed or canceled? Honest question.

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@HarrisonChase6 @MiltonFriedmanW Withholding on your paycheck. No one pays attention to it.

[Bryan Bigger @BryanBigger]

@JeffreyPWiesner Don't forget how changes can earn you a ton of capital too. A change well executed builds a lot of trust and confidence.

[Matt Smethurst @MattSmethurst]

Moses spent 40 years thinking he was somebody; 40 learning he was nobody; and 40 discovering what God can do with a nobody.

— D. L. Moody

[Dan Burmawi @DanBurmawy]

I know the resurrection is a fact, and Watergate proved it to me. How?

Because 12 men testified they had seen Jesus raised from the dead, then they proclaimed that truth for 40 years, never once denying it.

Every one was beaten, tortured, stoned and put in prison. They would not have endured that if it weren't true.

Watergate embroiled 12 of the most powerful men in the world-and they couldn't keep a lie for three weeks.

You're telling me 12 apostles could keep a lie for 40 years? Absolutely impossible.

Charles Colson

[Bryan Bigger @BryanBigger]

@aymanalabdul Your posts are just pure gold. I am taking our org from phase 2 to 3 right now. The shift is an adjustment for everyone not just me.

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@SteveWiesnerSMB

[MATT GRAY @matt_gray_]

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[Athenaeum Book Club @athenaeumbc]

Did you know C.S. Lewis predicted the modern obsession with “being nice” would destroy the soul?

In The Abolition of Man, Lewis argues that when a society stops believing in objective virtue, it doesn’t become tolerant… it becomes manipulable.

He calls the result “men without chests.”

People with appetites and intellects, but no courage, no honor, no trained moral instincts. They can calculate everything and defend nothing.

Lewis saw that once we reject inherited moral law, we don’t become free. We become raw material… easily shaped by propaganda, pleasure, and fear.

Modern man prides himself on compassion while quietly surrendering every standard that once gave compassion meaning.

Lewis’s insight is brutal: a civilization that educates clever cowards will eventually be ruled by tyrants or technicians.

Because when nothing is worth dying for, everything becomes negotiable… including human dignity.

[Bryan Bigger @BryanBigger]

@STLChrisH 👏🏻

[Bryan Bigger @BryanBigger]

@lukedsimmons I didn’t realize the true critical importance of #1 until lead pastoring. Life-saver.

[Bryan Bigger @BryanBigger]

@lukedsimmons General experience is it seems difficult for most churches to pay every employee fairly and generously. Most even struggle to compensate any fairly.

[New Hills Church @newhillschurch]

This Christmas, start a new tradition with your family. Join us for a beautiful candlelight service at New Hills Church as we celebrate the birth of Jesus with carols, the Christmas story, and a moment of peace in the holiday rush.

🎄 Tuesday, Dec 23 | 5:30 & 7:00 PM
🎄 Wednesday, Dec 24 | 2:00, 3:30, 5:00 PM

[Bryan Bigger @BryanBigger]

@gregstier Good stuff!

[Tara Viswanathan @TaraViswanathan]

Nearly 100 yrs old and still one of the most relevant business books I’ve ever read.

In just two paragraphs he lays out over a dozen timeless principles:

1. Fewer, better people. & keep them for a long time.

2. Great craftsmen (ICs) are rarely great managers.

3. CEOs need to know how their products are made. CEOs need to know the details. Don’t outsource this.

4. Leaders need to get out of the board rooms and on the factory floor (or customer meetings, etc.) If your team is not used to seeing you “on the factory floor”, you’re not there enough.

5. Working managers only. No middle managers who don’t know how to do the work.
- Non-operational middle managers don’t have the respect of the team.
- They also can’t judge quality.
- They also can’t gauge realistic timeframes for work.

6. Salary alone won’t attract or retain great ppl. The mission, the FIGHT, is what attracts great ppl.

7. Get to know your team as people. What happens in their lives matters.

8. Be vigilant with indirect expenses that are not related to product building. This is an easy way companies bloat spent.

9. “An office is essentially a place in which to work. It is not a club and it ought not to be fitted up as a club—else it may turn into a club.”

10. No company always has “good times”. When bad times inevitably hit, you’d rather have cash than the fancy office.

And every page in the book is like this so far. 🤯

(From Harvey Firestone’s autobiography: “Men and Rubber”)

[Naval @naval]

Say something true, in an interesting way.

[Kpaxs @Kpaxs]

The power of ruthless prioritization by Steve Jobs.