Culture
A Christmas goose. Ask Andrew Jones about his... Today's mashup topic is Christmas. Timely, huh? See what you can do with these -- * Tall Skinny Kiwi has a delightful post on his Christmas goose. I'm pulling for the goose myself. * Out of Ur has more on
Creativity
Kevin Kelly talks and writes about the one machine which, he says, the internet is becoming. Read his complete post here and another post here. Here's Kelly describing the one machine in his own words -- "The next stage in human technological evolution is a single thinking/
Resources
I've got a new aggregator, chuckwarnock.com. All my blogs puddle up on this one site, so it's like one-stop shopping for the blogophile. Here are the blogs at chuckwarnock.com -- * Confessions of a Small-Church Pastor – a gathering place for the small church community — a
Resources
Someone cancelled their email subscription to Confessions the other day. I understand that because I get too many emails myself. Plus, email gets stuck in your inbox, you've got to read it or delete it, and mostly if you don't read it right now, you'
Community
Christianity Today just posted my article, "Learn To Partner," on their website. The print version appeared in Leadership's spring 2007 issue. If you don't subscribe to Leadership, or haven't read the article, it's the story of what we are doing
Congregation
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
Journey
This week we went over 40,000 views and still going! Thank you for stopping by now-and-then, and making this a real gathering place for the small church community. Seth Godin said "thanks" better today than I can -- Every time you read something I write here, you&
Congregation
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
Creativity
Okay, I'm already lying here. I promised I would only post once a week on this blog, but I run across stuff that really excites me more than once a week. So, here are a couple of related pieces on writers, readers, and the web just today --
Resources
I just posted The Way We Relate is Changing to my new blog about trends and technology and how those forces will impact the church. I'd appreciate it if you'd take a look, put FutureChurchNow in your blog reader or bookmark it. I post once a
Congregation
(I've added a new category, Technology. Here's the first post.) Sam Rainer, my fellow-blogger on the Outreach network, wrote a good piece about church websites, The Church Website: Overrated, Overdone, or More To Come? For small churches, the disturbing news is that only 29% of churches
Resources
I write three blogs, and now four. "How does he find the time?" you might ask. Doesn't actually take that much time because these are things I'd be interested in even if I didn't write about them. For me blogs are a