Posted in Uncategorized on December 31, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
For #10, click here.
For #9-7, click here.
For #6-4, click here.
3. This is my ministry…but where is my paycheck? (Danny Ortega)
“I know a lot of people that get paid to be in the ministry…..I really don’t have any issue with that. I think what bugs me is this arbitrary “ministry for cash” program that I [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on December 30, 2009 | 1 Comment »
For post #10, click here.
For posts #9-7, click here.
#6 – Generation Gap Part 2: Free Agency and Middle School Dances
“in many places, twenty-something leaders are being encouraged to bide their time. In another era, workers remained loyal to the same factory or company or institution for their whole career. However, sports are not the only [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on December 29, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Check out #10 here.
9. Book Review – The Advent Conspiracy
“This book lays out an incredible plan. Pastors Rick McKinley, Chris Seay, and Greg Holder describe how an incredible idea emerged from their frustration about pastoring people amidst the holiday season. They cast a vision before their communities – what if we became counter-cultural at Christmas [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on December 28, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Over the next three days, I will be sharing the top 10 posts from 2009 here on the blog. As I looked over the stats, I was excited to see that these 10 posts come from 4 different authors. Since we had over ten authors on the blog this year, I am glad to see [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on December 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Last night, we did a “year in review” of sorts at Crash. My buddy Rob Payne helped me to compose a montage of selections from the 11 series we did at Crash in 2009. I shared 3 things that I see God teaching us in 2009 that influence how we approach 2010. [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on December 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
(Disclaimer: I received this book as a promotional deal with Thomas Nelson. I do have full liberty regarding the content of my review post).
I finished Dr. Tim Irwin’s new book, Derailed: Five Lessons Learned from Catastrophic Failures in Leadership, recently. I LOVED reading this book. I love Irwin’s focus on and description of the character [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on December 17, 2009 | 1 Comment »
The first time I heard Francis Chan speak, I was seated on the floor of the Phillips Arena in Atlanta, Georgia with 22,000 college students. God spoke to all of us in a powerful way and from that moment on, whenever I had a friend who attended a conference where Francis spoke, he was their [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on December 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
(Disclosure: I received a free advanced copy of this book to read and share with my blog readers. However, there were no parameters put on the actual content of what I wrote).
Mark Batterson’s new book, Primal: A Quest for the Lost Soul of Christianity, far exceeded my expectations. Having read Mark’s two previous books, In [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on December 10, 2009 | 2 Comments »
(This post may be controversial – the issue is complicated, but I think it is one worth engaging).
One of the reasons that I miss seminary may seem surprising, but going to seminary motivated me to take care of myself physically. I would go to seminary and spend time with some great men and women. But [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on December 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
“Multi-tasking makes us feel efficient. But it’s insane delusion. It actually slows our thinking down.”
-A.J. Jacobs
To read the full article (which I discussed in my December 6th Crash talk – the man who experimented in uni-tasking for 30 days), click here.
