9.28.2004
9.27.2004
Breaking the 300 Barrier
Articles like this disgust me! How is the Holy Spirit involved in church growth? You won't find any insight here just program thoughts and techniques. Yuk!
How to create a postcard newletter
Cool spin on the traditional newsletter! Great idea for churches.
9.25.2004
9.23.2004
LookSmart's Furl - Your Personal Web
I received this email today and wanted to pass along this service to you. Now they are offering 5 gigs of storage! Wow!
Dear Furl Members,
Tomorrow we will be making an official announcement that Furl has been acquired. However, we wanted you to be the first to hear the news. We are joining LookSmart, a provider of Web search and research-quality articles search, in addition to other high-quality search products.
This is exciting news for several reasons. First, because LookSmart acquired Furl for the same reasons you probably use it - it is a great service that works well - and LookSmart has no intention of changing the things that make it great. On the contrary, LookSmart is committed to making existing features even more powerful.
To show how serious that commitment is, we are officially allocating 5 gigabytes (GB) of storage for each individual member's public archive, enough space to store tens of thousands of archived items.
9.20.2004
Mile High Musings: The Party on the Side of the Road
Great idea! I hope we can pull off something like this here in Wray!
Scotsman.com News - Latest News - TV 'Priest Idol' Aims to Fill Church's Empty Pews
Yikes! I'd hate the pressure this would bring!
The Tension Regarding Intention : Youthworker Journal
Great article by Todd Hunter on intentional evangelism.
NarniaWeb - Your Source For Narnia Movie News
Here's information on the Narnia movie due out Christmas 2005.
9.16.2004
Sermon mind maps
I am in the process of trying to upload my sermon mind maps to an online photo ablum. The link is included above. Once I get some of them uploaded, I'll let you know.
9.15.2004
9.13.2004
It's All About Who, Jesus?
No doubt, much of the talk about 'emerging church' can be fit into the category of a new demographic needing everything tailored to its finicky, funky tastes. It's still all about me, just a me from a different market sector. It's as if we're asking for the set on The Truman Show to be redesigned for a newer, hipper Truman.
But if there's even a spark of something else at work in the emergent conversation, just a flicker of hope that the real God is to be found outside the dome of a narcissistic consumer religion (in any of its demographic forms), and that God is actually so wonderful that we would actually like to sing and preach about God for a while, more than ourselves, then we should fan that flame.
Great article from Brian McLaren
Reverse Mentoring
What if seasoned ministry leaders followed such an example and used reverse mentoring to gain understanding of the emerging culture? As postmodern thought continues to permeate our culture, church leaders would be wise to become fluent in the language of the emergent conversation. The best way to do this is to become a willing and intentional student of the culture, to become the humble protege instead of the mentor.
Do you know any pastors that are doing this? The article talks about the business world regularly doing this and benefiting greatly. I hope there are some pastors out there who are giving this a try.
Exegeting images
If images are that powerful in their imprinting abilities, and if pastors are called to communicate in an "image-thinking" culture, why are we so determined to exegete words and so reluctant to exegete images?
Make you think article from Len Sweet.
9.11.2004
The September 11 Digital Archive
Spend some time today praying for our world, President Bush, our troops, the victims, and above all peace.
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