Archive for November, 2007
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E-Mail issues
If anyone has e-mailed me at my @thewellpa.com e-mail address in the past week or few days, I am having some issues with them. So, if you are waiting for a response from me there is a 100% chance …
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Jesus Wept. A Funeral Sermon.
Tonight I stood in front of 300 people, about 290 of whom I had never met before and did my best to deal with the reality that their 26 year old brother, son, nephew, friend took his own life. …
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Not the Way its Supposed to Be.
Some things aren’t appropriate to blog about in detail. But, tomorrow night (Thursday) I will be leading a memorial service for a 26 year old young man named Phil who committed suicide early Tuesday morning. I did not know …
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Are You Plugged-In?
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Why Some Church Programs Don’t Work
I’ve got two traits that often work against each other when it comes to pastoral ministry. First, I’m highly creative. I love being creative. This is a good quality. But, I’ve also got a bad habit …
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I’m Still in Love with Devin Hester
And I am even more so after the John Chandler’s Broncos decided to be manly and kick the ball to him. If you didn’t see the game last night, you …
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Unplugging
We are headed up to the Wisconsin Dells to go to our family’s timeshare. This means I won’t have internet access till Friday. I’m actually looking forward to it.
Should be some good time with my family.
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Look at how Great I am
Bruce Reyes-Chow has a great post worth checking out about how we always feel the need to make sure people know how great we are. Good stuff. While this is a huge pet peeve of mine, I still …
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Travel Day from Philadelphia
So, this morning Melanie and I woke up the kids and got out of the house by around 6:50 for a 9:15 flight out of Philadelphia. It took us 1 hour and 45 minutes to get to the airport …
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Daddy Survey
Wanna be a better dad? I know I do.
My Friend LT pointed me to this survey by his friend Tony, creator of the healthcare blog, hospitalimpact.org needs your help to help superdads everywhere with savvy daddy.
First he’s trying …
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Joe Myers Interview
My good friend Joe Myers, author of Organic Community and The Search to Belong, will be interviewed by Sally Morgenthaler on www.shapevine.com tonight at 9:00pm Eastern. I am hoping to be able to listen in. …
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A Holy (Suburban) discontent
Tim Keel, author of the new book Intuitive Leadership, must be reading my mind. Or, it might be more accurate to say that I have been reading his mind. Or I could just say that I’ve …
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Site Maintenance
Doing some site maintenance just for the fun of it. If things look screwy I apologize.
Update: So, I moved to a two column scheme. What do you think? Is it easier to read? Easier to find things? …
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An Adoption Sermon
Intro: Below is the sermon manuscript that I preached on August 10, 2007 after my wife and I and our new son Mason got home from Guatemala. I meant to post this a long time ago, but I had …
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Website Launch: The Imperfect Leader
Today I launched a new website for a good friend Davis Taylor. He’s on the leadership team at The Well and I consider him a very important …
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Random Thoughts on 11/5/07
I don’t have just one blog post in me so here goes a list of random things…  The Psalms. Like I said here, I have been reading the Psalms in the morning before I start work, at lunch break …
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Being Countercultural with the Workday
Eugene Peterson writes in his book Working the Angles:
“In short, the Psalms provide the language, the aspirations, the energy for the community as it comes together in prayer, and they then call into being and are formative for the activities of prophets, …
