Culture
Remember the Friday is for Freebies! giveaway each week in 2009. Good free church stuff all for the taking. Click here for this week's freebie and rules. Outreach2Go.com is now live and has some good stuff on it. I'll be blogging there about the "
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Well, we did it! Two years ago Outreach magazine gave me the opportunity to blog under their banner. It took a while to pick up momentum, but, we've hit the big time now. As of today, we have crossed 150,000 page views in only two years! Thank
Congregation
I can't get Julie Clawson's words out of my head -- We couldn’t attract enough people willing to give enough money to pay our salary and so the church failed. Julie was responding to Dan Kimball's critique of missional churches as opposed to
Congregation
Browsing in a Barnes & Nobles today, I saw a book titled, Lies My Teacher Told Me. Apparently the author takes issue with some historical stuff he thinks is misrepresented in public education. The title of that book got me to thinking about my seminary experience. While I would not
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I'm playing around here and this is the rough draft of 101 Outreach Ideas for Small Churches. Any others you want to add? I'd love to hear any stories you have about any outreach ideas you've used. I'm working on a book,
Community
This week I was asked to pray at the swearing in of our new county treasurer, who is also a member of our church. I wrote Prayer for A New County Treasurer for that occasion. I also wrote Prayer for the Opening of Court a couple of years ago. Both
Creativity
I got tired of lugging my laptop to meetings, so I got a Blackberry before I went to NOC2008 in San Diego. Of course, when I got there, everyone I saw had an iPhone or a BB, so I'm not exactly on the cutting edge here, but I&
Congregation
I'm reading Seth Godin's new book, Tribes. Godin packs his small book with pithy observations about the nature of "tribes" and the qualities tribes are looking for in leaders. Although he doesn't explicitly say this, it occurred to me that a small
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Here's the powerpoint I used in my NOC2008 workshop, Small Churches Make Good Neighbors. I'm using the abbey church model, and discussing the 10 aspects of the ancient celtic abbeys applied to churches today. The ppt is on SlideShare, so you can view and download the
church as abbey
A friend of mine sent me Seth Godin's new book, Tribes . All Godin's books pack lots of new thinking between their small covers. I'll post more about it after I'm finished, but already I've run across these gems: * "A
Community
Here is the sermon I preached this morning from Psalm 78:1-7, titled The Next Generation. The Next Generation Psalm 78:1-71 O my people, hear my teaching; listen to the words of my mouth. 2 I will open my mouth in parables, I will utter hidden things, things from
Congregation
Thinking about critical issues for churches today, I started making a list of questions churches should be able to answer. It seems to me that all churches, regardless of size, need to be able to offer compelling responses to these questions. Here they are: 1. Meaning: How do we see