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Merry Christmas! If you're in a place where it's snowing, the flakes on the screen will not impress you. However, if it's sunny and warm on your Christmas Day, enjoy the snowflakes here! Thanks to the Christmas geeks at Wordpress for this treat.... (feedreaders
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boysandgirlsclubchristmas party2007 Here are photos of the Christmas party at our church for 83 kids from the Boys and Girls Club. This year a local business, First Piedmont, sponsored the party, and our own Chatham Fire Department donated the gifts. The kids had a blast, as you can see.
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Click thru these 100 photos of storefront churches in Brooklyn. The church is alive and well and being reinvented by lots of people in contextual ways. Very encouraging. New expressions of church are happening in lots of places and cultures, and these are as authentic as you'll find.
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A walled garden is a site or company that offers content only to its subscribers, who have to "come inside the wall" to get the content they want. The old AOL was like that -- you had to subscribe to get access to their content. But information wants
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You might have noticed 3 new page tabs at the top of Confessions of A Small-Church Pastor. I've added About Our Church , Sermons, etc, and The Abbey Church as permanent pages. * About Our Church is the story of what we're doing here at Chatham Baptist Church,
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8:05am -- Debbie and I finish breakfast and say the morning office from Celtic Daily Prayer, a tradition we try to keep everyday. 8:35am -- Preparing to visit a homebound member when I receive a call at home from her daughter that she died this morning some time
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A pastor appeared on Fox network's Greta Van Susteren show Monday, and revealed that the missing 4th wife of ex-cop Drew Peterson told him that Peterson admitted killing his 3rd wife. Former Westbrook Christian Church pastor Neil Schori told "On the Record" that he was "
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Thanks to Tim Hyde of LivingOS for this link to animoto.com. Click thru to see the 30-second video I put together using animoto.com -- it's a 30-second tour of our work with the Boys and Girls Club including the dedication of the new community center. Take
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I've been thinking about this idea for sometime, so here's the first of what I hope will be regular Monday mashups -- related ideas, links, and stuff that you can mashup for your own ministry. Today's topic: community. * Definition of mashup, for starters. * Church
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I have about 50 blogs on my feedreader at a time. Half of them are blogs reflecting popular culture. Hey, I'm trying to keep up. So, I'm reading Ruby Pseudo from the UK and she describes herself this way -- "Ruby Pseudo is a lucky
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After discovering that their church programs did not help people love God or others more... Willow Creek had two choices -- 1. Reinvent themselves or 2. Develop a new program to replace the old programs that didn't work. They chose number 2 -- another program. Reveal is the
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Patricia Martin has an interesting Change This piece -- The RenGen Manifesto -- about the new Renaissance Generation. You need to read this and here's an excerpt titled, It's about fusion, not fission: They may cleave to the religions they were raised with, and embrace new