Resources
The more I learn about LifeChurch.tv, the more I like those folks. I told you about the mobile edition for YouVersion.com -- an online Bible, journal, commentary, and community. But wait, there's more! LifeChurch.tv also offers churchmetrics.com. This is a free cloud site for
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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
Advent
My sermon for the 3rd Sunday in Advent is coming later today. But, here's a sermon I preached last year, How God Came to Be With Us. This sermon features the fictional character Itzak, who tells the story of his friend Joseph and how God came to be
Creativity
I mentioned this yesterday on Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, and some other places, but if you don't get those feeds, here's an early Christmas present for you: YouVersion, an online multi-edition Bible, is now available for Blackberries. The iPhone version has been out for a while, but
Community
Most of you who follow this blog do it by feed reader. If you get me on a feed reader, you may not know about some of the new tools I'm using. I'm finding them useful: 1. Twitter. Ed Stetzer evangelized me to Twitter at NOC2008.
Creativity
Once Carl Sandburg remarked about a preacher: "I won't take my religion from any man who never works except with his mouth." I wonder if Sandburg would give us preachers a break if we also worked with pens, and not just with our mouths. Since Sandburg
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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,
Culture
"In wildness is the preservation of the world," wrote Henry David Thoreau in his groundbreaking book, Walden. With Thoreau as a starting point, Bill McKibben has assembled the finest, most comprehensive anthology of American environmental writing one could hope to find. The combined work of 101 authors, running
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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
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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
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NOC2008 surpassed my expectations! I got to hear Erwin McManus, J John, Francis Chan; and I sat in on Doug Stringer's workshop titled, Who's Your Daddy? Great title and great seminar. I met Ed Stetzer of LifeWay, and Gary McIntosh of Talbot Seminary; plus, the great
Culture
Wow, what a great kickoff to NOC08 yesterday. The small church discussion group I led had an overflow crowd and lots of great ideas. Erwin McManus delivered a powerful and compelling message. McManus said that most of our effort is spent trying to make Sunday worship just a little less