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ChristianityToday.com has posted an excerpt from my message, Where is God? on their LeadershipJournal.net site. I preached this sermon on April 22, 2007, the Sunday after the Virginia Tech shootings. I posted the entire sermon on this blog. CT picked it up because our church's ministries
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The Tipping Point, by Malcom Gladwell, is a must-read book for church leaders. It's the book that started the viral marketing buzz, but The Tipping Point is far more than a marketing book. Chapter 5 is subtitled, The Magic Number 150. Here's a quick summary: * Human
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Notice the new header? LifeWay Threads is now our sponsor, so Outreach mag's really great art director, Christi, did new headers for all the Outreach mag blogs. It's a long story about how we selected this header for Confessions of A Small-Church Pastor, but I like
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This past week was difficult for our community. I live in Chatham, Virginia, about 2-hours from Blacksburg and Virginia Tech, so we were obviously affected by that tragedy. But, on the Saturday before the VT tragedy, our town doctor died suddenly and unexpectedly. Dr. Thompson was a member of our
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I have tried several times this week to write about the tragedy at Virginia Tech, but I could not. Here is the sermon I am preaching tomorrow. My prayer is that it will help. Finding God in the Midst of Tragedy John 21:1-19 Suppose everything we thought and believed
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Someone asked me how we do video and post it to our website. Our "minister of media" Scott Chafee has prepared a crash course in what we do. The best part is, Scott put this all together for zero dollars! Now, the quality could be better, and we&
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Okay, I'm about out of my Easter post-paschal letdown. Here's some fun stuff that I found fascinating while reviewing my daily blogline: * Seth Godin, marketing guru, always has some interesting stuff. Read about the dabbawallas -- it's a great illustration. * Chris Erdman, former marketing
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I'm reading Larry Witham's Who Shall Lead Them? The Future of Ministry in America. Witham, former reporter and award-winning religion writer, "takes the pulse of both the Protestant and Catholic ministry in America and provides a mixed diagnosis of the calling's health,"
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Mark Kelly and Rick Warren have pulled together a list of Christian bloggers and I'm on it! As members of this new virtual community, we're posting the entire list of bloggers on each of our blogs. Here's the list of folks you might want
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I just got my March/April Outreach magazine today. I have looked at some of the online version, but I missed the article, Shaping Generations by Alicia Kazsuk. Trinity Lutheran Church in Pembroke Pines, Florida, has an IGSS -- intergenerational group Sunday School, and Alicia writes about their experience and
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I've put up two new categories -- "Sermon Illustrations" and "Missional Church." I love good stories and that's what "Sermon Illustrations" is -- good stories you can use in sermons or your blogs, or wherever. Most of the stories are
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In early 1863, at the mid-point in the Civil War, the Union Army of the Potomac and the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia were camped on opposite sides of the Rappahannock River, the dividing line between the north and the south. One late afternoon, brigade bands from the Union army