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Life buckets
Each of us have different buckets that our life fits in. For me, there’s a home bucket, a work bucket, a school bucket, and at least a few others. The challenge a lot of times is to pour our time and energy into the right ones. It gets even more difficult when they’re all good…
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Having patience and creepy kids’ songs
Isn’t it crazy what parts of our childhoods stick with us? When Grete was growing up, she was given a record (I think it was a group called Music Machine) that had little “Christianey” songs for kids on it. One of the songs had a snail singing about patience. That was a long time ago.…
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Two years
Two years ago today, a guy working as editor of a weekly newspaper in Texas married a woman who was working at a zoo as a gorilla keeper. Since then, she’s been a tutor and an office manager. He’s been a communications director at a non profit, a student, and a small groups coordinator at…
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End bad PowerPoint
I just love what Seth has to say about communication. It’s a riff anyone could learn from. If you communicate – ever – to anyone – go read this now.
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Smaller churches are important!
Bob Roberts has some great things to say about church planting and church planting movements… “On more than one occasion, I’ve found myself in a group of mega-church pastors who make a statement like this. “We need to partner to start some significant churches–we don’t need to waste our time on these little churches of…
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Isn’t She Beautiful?
Joshua Longbrake posted some of his notes from Mars Hill’s Isn’t She Beautiful? conference. It looks like a good snapshot of the event. +the art of space //”get in the boat.” _Jesus to His disciples //Jesus was constantly getting away. sitting by a lake. praying on a mountain side. in a boat. people would…
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Engaging the world
I’ve read a few posts recently about the diversity (or lack thereof) of blogs’ audiences. It’s a good conversation to have. Here’s my take. The blog you’re reading mainly focuses on church (how it’s done, staying relevant in society, reaching out, etc.), leadership topics like creativity and planning, and my life. Unless they know me…
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Fuller and the Vietnam War
I wrote a piece for Fuller’s campus paper that was published this week about the response at the seminary to the Vietnam War. It was interesting to talk with some of the people who were on campus at the time and hear how one of the protests impacted their lives. We even spoke about how…
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The real work of creativity
It’s time for another Seth Godin quote. This time on creativity. 99% of the time, in my experience, the hard part about creativity isn’t coming up with something no one has ever thought of before. The hard part is actually executing the thing you’ve thought of. The devil doesn’t need an advocate. The brave need…
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Preach what you practice
It’s really saying the same thing, but in a different way. What if the “living it” had to come before the “speaking it?” What if we just couldn’t talk about how to live life or how to follow God or how to have a devotional time with God or how to pray or how to…
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A prayer for church leaders
God, give us wisdom as leaders of your church. Bring unity as one body in the middle of stylistic differences and theological conflict. Help us to follow you in the things we know. Help us to serve our communities. Help us to serve the least. Help us to impact the world for your name. Help…
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On cultural change
Mark Batterson just posted some solid thoughts on cultural shifts at his blog. Here’s a part of it, but the whole post is worth a read. Here are some off the cuff thoughts on cultural shifts. These aren’t prescriptive. They are descriptive. Some are good. Some not so good.1) Incarnation is more important than Explanation…
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Hard time getting up? Hit the ground running.
If you’ve been known to hit the snooze button one too many times in the morning, this is for you. Clocky is an alarm clock that, once the snooze button is hit, dives off your night stand and runs away. The next time the alarm goes off, you have to get out of bed and…
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A Jesus you can follow
“I can’t help but wonder which came first: the impulse to sanitize and tame Jesus by encasing him in abstract theology, thereby removing our motivation for discipleship, or our natural repulsion toward discipleship that forces us to domesticate Jesus to let us off the hook. Either way, when Jesus is just true light from true…
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MLK Day
In honor of today, here’s Dr. Martin Luther King’s “I Have a Dream” speech … And here’s an idea for churches (and anyone) from Church Marketing Sucks. Why not plan some time to serve your community or nearby areas on the day many people have off? The concept “it’s not a day off, it’s a…
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