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 this gives the design a little more breathing room.
I reduced the font size a bit.
Simplified the header
Tried to make the section titles a bit [...]
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 his “Point of View” newsletter. (you can do so here).
Today he sent out [...]
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 to best form our meet time so that our time is well spent. I’ll be honest, [...]
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 is knowing where to draw lines and boundaries. Both these jobs can be demanding [...]
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…
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 you are new here and have no clue what I am talking about, I am [...]
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 distract them from the responsibility of being a parent.
8. The physique of men indicates that they are more [...]
(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 a pastor, here’s a question: How do you refer the people in your church? Most [...]
I am posting this video in hopes that the Bears can strike gold again in the draft tomorrow…
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, I think we pay them for the privilege to do that…
Anyways, I personally think these [...]
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 too hard on myself but I think that’s sometimes really helpful to be so. [...]
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 I have all those problems recently, but some of them were repeated. Just this week I was without my computer [...]
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 my own car.
I walked all over the city. Yes, on foot.
Since I [...]
“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
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 price of being peace makers
I was shocked to hear that Zambia is one of the [...]
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 two other pastors as we visit his country and meet and encourage the pastors there [...]
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 evening
Thursday, June 19
Speaking at Livingstone Leadership Conference
Late afternoon tour of Victoria Falls
4-hour bus ride to Lusaka in the evening
Friday, June 20
Flight to Ndola (or 4-hour bus ride)
Evening of [...]
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 there will be no talking from after from breakfast till dinner time. During the [...]
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 missions program.” This is a great statement, I’ve said it quite often and I am [...]
About a year or so ago I closed down the site MereMission. The conversation had stalled and it didn’t seem like it was doing much. Today someone asked me to open up the archives again so they could link to a post. This got me thinking that maybe the site deserved [...]