Archive for April, 2008
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Speaking of Shiny New Things
On a whim tonight, I made some major modifications to my blog design. I did a bunch of things….
The Site width is now 960px instead of 1000px. I hope …
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The Lure of Shiny New Things
I’ve become a big fan of Patrick Lencioni and his leadership books. I think he sees things that most of just don’t see. The things he sees are those “duh” type of things too. I subscribe to …
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Church Leadership Meetings: Is it Possible Not to Hate Them?
Meetings. We typically don’t like them. In fact, most of us hate them. This is true for many reasons. I’ve blogged about this before.
At The Well we’ve been on a journey to figure out how …
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Am I a webdesigner or pastor? Keeping on task…
I wrote yesterday a bit about how I work bi-occupationally (I have two occupations and one vocation – my vocation is “christian” or “Christ follower” if you like that term better).
One of the challenges of working this way …
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The Best 1:43 you will spend today (A Mason Video)
Seriously, if you had to do spend 1 minute and 43 seconds doing something, you’d have a hard time finding a better way to do it…
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On Being a Part-Time Pastor…
I am a part-time pastor. Well, I am paid part time to be a pastor.
Many people have asked me over e-mail or in person, how this part time in two worlds thing works. In case …
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10 Reasons Men Should Not Be In Ministry
Through a series of links I found this funny top ten list… this is hilarious stuff.
This is from the post:
10. A man’s place is in the army.
9. The pastoral duties of men who have children might …
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Open Handed Ministry
(I posted this post over at my other blog that I don’t think will actually take off again because I am realizing I can’t put energy into two blogs, so I am reposting it here).
If you are …
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Hoping for another Devin Hester
I am posting this video in hopes that the Bears can strike gold again in the draft tomorrow…
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I Sold this Blog to Google for $1,000,000
Okay, another overstatement of a title. But, I am now sporting some ads on my blog. What’s this world coming to? Next thing you know my kids will be paid to wear companies names on their clothing…oh, wait, …
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Are You A Leader? Or Are You Just Holding A Position?
I’ve been doing a lot of thinking lately about leadership. This question has haunted me recently. Am I acting as a leader or am I just holding a position? Now, I realize I tend to be way …
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Rethinking my Allegiance to Apple…
Uh, yeah, right. No chance I am rethinking my allegiance to Apple despite the long, long list of recent problems my MacBookPro has had (read about them here). Not only did …
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I’m Not A Good Suburbanite
I have a confession to make: I was a bad suburbanite yesterday. Why? Well, there are a number of reasons…
I carpooled down to the city in the morning with someone who was already going down there instead of driving …
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Poverty
“Poor people die not only because of the world’s indifference to their poverty, but also because of ineffective efforts by those who do care…”
William Easterly, in the book The White Man’s Burden
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Information about Zambia
Some Facts About Zambia:
64% of the population living on $1 or less a day,
Unemployment rates hover at more than seventy percent
30,000 children being born HIV-positive each year
Of the population of 11 million, almost 10% or orphaned street kids.The …
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Zambia or Bust
After a few weeks of praying and processing, I’ve accepted the invitation to head to Zambia, Africa to spend two weeks working with my good friend George Palo (a pastor from Ndola, Zambia).
George will be leading me and …
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Zambia 2008 Trip Itinerary
Tuesday, June 17
Arrival and rest
Evening tour of Lusaka (prayer for the Street Kids)Wednesday, June 18
Speaking at Lusaka Leadership Conference – 4-hour bus ride to Livingstone in the eveningThursday, June 19
Speaking at Livingstone Leadership Conference
Late afternoon tour of Victoria … -
Silence and Community
I am taking the next two days and heading out to a cabin in the woods with one my closest friends. We’re headed up there do to a mix of solitude and community. We made the deal that …
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MereMission: Missions, Missional & The Global Church
I’ve got my first post of the new MereMission up. Here’s an excerpt:
One of in things to say in churches that claim to be “missional” is something like this: “we don’t have a missions program, our church is a …
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MereMission Is Live Again
