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I am proposing a new set of labels to describe a church's size -- * Mega-church. Size: 1000+. Everybody knows this term, because it's already in use, so this is an easy one. * Meso-church. Size: 300-to-999. Meso, according to Wikipedia, means middle or intermediate. So, this is
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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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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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I think it's time somebody came to the defense of the church in Corinth. Okay, so they're all dead now. But they live on in two of Paul's letters for all the world to see. I think Corinth, arguably Paul's worst church,
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Wednesday we put up the Chrismon tree at our church. The story is that the Chrismon Tree idea came from a church in Danville, Virginia, about 15-miles south of here. Last year we moved the tree from the fellowship hall into the sanctuary, and people liked it. Lots of folks
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How's that for alliteration? Okay, bad header aside, I do have some interesting stuff today, techno-wise -- 1. Highrise -- I've been looking for a web-based CRM (customer relationship manager) that was adaptable to church ministry, and I think I've found it. Check out
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CNN reports that crude oil prices hit $99/barrel yesterday and are headed to $100/barrel and up. Gas is already past $3-a-gallon in much of the US. A gasoline transporter told me that people appear to be conserving more. So even at $3 a gallon the price is having
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Wouldn't it be interesting if the expiration date for a church were stamped on it as clearly as it is on a package of meat at the grocery? The expiration date tells you how fresh the package you hold in your hand really is. If you're