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Archive for November, 2008
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It’s Thanksgiving
Stop reading my blog and hang out with your family.
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Mental Illness & The Church
For the last five years I have had a friend named Michael who has been part of my life. We’ve lost touch recently touch due to some circumstances but his friendship has been one of the more challenging experiences of …
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Giving out of Extreme Poverty? (2 Corinthians 8)
Yesterday I started a series of posts on our church looking at 2 Corinthians 8 together during our times of offering. Since I started a week later, you get two posts this week on the topic.
To recap: …
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The Miracles of Technology
I don’t share YouTube videos on this blog very often (though, i did design it so they would embed really nicely into the left column here). But, this guy has totally shared my feelings about technology exactly. And, if I’m …
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Talking About Money in the Church Part 2 (II Cor. 8)
At The Well we have been focusing on 2 Corinthians 8:1-13 during our offering time (which i talked about at greater length here). If you haven’t read/studied this chapter, I encourage you to do so. For …
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The Pastor’s Responsibility
A friday rebuke/correction/encouragement from our friend Eugene Peterson,
“It is the pastor’s responsibility to keep the community attentive to God. It is this responsibility that is being abandoned in spades.”
From Working the Angles
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Talking about Money in the Church (Part 1)
This is the first in a series of posts about giving, money and the church. You can follow this series of posts here.
For the last couple years, a little passion of mine has been this topic of talking about money in …
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What Do We become Christians for?
From David Bosch’s brilliant little book, Believing in the Future,
As we call people (back) to faith in God through Jesus Christ, we must help them to articulate an answer to the question “what do we ahve to become Christians … -
Working Through the Pain
Still reading the book Failure of Nerve. He’s writing about how leadership is affected by the way people and people groups in our society want the quickest relief possible even if it isn’t the best way forward.
Friedman writes,
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Moving from Man to Man to Zone Defense…
So, in May/June Melanie and I will be switching defenses. We’re going from man on man to zone.
That’s right. Two kids to three.
Needless to say we’re pretty excited about the transition.
It’s going to bring about some major …
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Leader: It’s Your Fault / Responsibility
Last week I wrote a little bit about how leaders need to take reponsibiltiy when things go wrong in their communities or organizations. Far too often we are quick to blame it on those we are trying to …
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Focus on Your Strengths
One of the things that has effected my leadership in a really positive way as been the idea of “focusing on your strengths.” So often leaders are quick to focus all their energy on what they aren’t good at and …
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Amazing People
Been loving Seth Godin’s little book called Tribes. It’s full of some amazing one liners and is the kind of book that makes you want to get up off the couch and change the world.
Here’s a good …
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A Primer on the Missional Church
For those of you who are wondering what in the world the missional church, missional theology or missional living is all about, you might bookmark this massive post by my good friend JR Woodward.
Here he links to …
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What is Mission?
“Mission is more than and different from recruiting to our brand of religion; it is alerting people to the universal reign of God.”
David Bosch in Believing the Future
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Prayer: Help Me Open My Clenched Fists
A good friend sent me this prayer this morning:
Dear God,
I am so afraid to open my clench fists!
Who will I be when I have nothing left to hold on to?
Who will I be when I stand before you with empty …
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Live Blogging: Financial Freedom / Budgeting Seminar with David Briggs
Notes….
The average households under 35 are saving -16% of their income.
Financial freedom has nothing to do with our income.
The law of guaranteed wealth: Spend less than you make for a long period of time.
Man, these powerpoint slides are from around 1980 or …
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The Church: Shaped by Prayer?
This month (Nov. 16th) we are meeting as a community at The Well for our quarterly discussion on issues that are important to our mission together. We call these meetings Midrash meetings. This month we’ll be addressing the issue …
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Reflections on the 2008 Election
I don’t delve into polictics on my blog alot. Heck, I don’t delve into politics in my life a lot.
But, whether you voted for Obama or McCain, tonight was historic.
I had a stream of thoughts as I wanted the events …
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Books in the Works
I’ve been blessed with a number of Amazon Gift cards and a few books as gifts recently. This means I have a pile of books on my …
