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Lt. Charles Warnock, Jr, 1944, and a C-47 and C-46 My father is 87 years old, a veteran of World War II, and a retired Baptist minister. I often tell people that he's in better shape than I am, which is true. To prove it, he beats me
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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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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 going to do a post featuring everyone who has commented on this blog, with links to their sites/blogs. If you just have an email link, I won't post that, but if you have a site or blog I'll mention you, unless you
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As we approach the Easter season, the natural instinct is to try to make Easter a big day. Usually that makes sense because it is, after all, Easter. But at one church I pastored, we made Palm Sunday our big Sunday. Why? Because school spring break was always scheduled from
Congregation
Tom Holland and I have been emailing back-and-forth about how small churches keep their members. Tom and I have both experienced families leaving our churches to go to larger churches where the programs are a draw. If the two of us are dealing with this issue of "closing the
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This is what I love about the internet. I ran across a site called eHow.com -- a virtual "how-to" about everything, even religion. So I look and sure enough, there is a post on "How To Make Lutheranism Part of Your Life." Not exactly the
Sermon Illustrations
Ray Chan was my first appointment on my first day in Hong Kong in the spring of 2002. Ray was the sales manager for a windchime factory. I had found his factory on the internet before I flew to Hong Kong. I had exchanged emails with him, and now we
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Almost 17 years ago, in 1990, I stepped into the pulpit of the church I started in Greensboro, North Carolina and resigned. I was tired, exhausted, and I had nothing else to say. So I did what I had talked about doing -- I quit. Don't quit. It&