Group/Simply Youth Ministry are expanding their “99 Thoughts” series a a seemingly rapid pace. I am currently reading “99 thoughts on leading well”. There is some serious potential in this series. This got me thinking about other ideas for the series – GOOD and BAD… note: all of the 10 worst are meant in satire …
My church is doing an event with Brian Ford from Xposed2Jesus.com on October 14th in Rockville, IN. Brian asked me to get him a “large” Cause Circle to use as a prop. In the spirit of “Go BIG or Go Home..” one of our creative ladies at church has made this 8ft x8ft Cause Circle …
I received this in an email from the Youversion.com team today, it has some encouraging stats! Keep it up guys! It’s official. You’re part of a revolution. Millions of people (9.1 million to be exact) are discovering that the Bible can and should be a part of their everyday life. It’s no small thing that …
So there’s this woman who gets carpal tunnel from the repetitive motion of texting clients all day. She has the surgery and some guy in the news decides to be clever by calling it “Blackberry Thumb”. Small problem, she clearly states in the story she was using an iPhone….FAIL! Were they afraid they may incur …
This was out on TR’s 10 things blog the other day. It has a lot of good info for novice/intermediate PC users that they can use. There is not much there for advanced users, but that’s ok. System running slow? You’ll want to check out the link before you go to some website advertised on …
There are a lot of questions out there about using Facebook in ministry. Here is a good post by Tim with the do’s and dont’s . I want to know what your guidelines are for using Facebook in your ministry…. How (And How Not) To Use Facebook for Ministry | Challies Dot Com. Share this:EmailFacebookPrint
I’ve been sitting on this story for a little while, but in the depth of Apple’s “Anntenna-gate”, Apple released iOS 4.1. Gizmodo claimed that one of the “fixes” was that it made the first couple bars of signal taller to make it feel like your signal wasn’t as bad as it was in reality. If …
I thought a Pre-Nup was kind of a chicken-livered approach to marriage, but this takes that idea of non-committed commitments to a new low! A firm now sells divorce insurance that pays out if your marriage fails. Is this going to become a cultural norm? I sure hope not.. What are your thoughts? Insure Your …
I’ve got a lot of reading in front of me. I’m still working on finishing my booksneeze book “Change Your Church for Good”, and today Group sent me an awesome box of goodies (thanks guys!) with a couple of new books to review. There is some cool stuff coming up based on these…stay tuned… What …
Its the time of year that many churches are doing their 2011 budgets… What are things that churches can do to maximize the use of the resources God has blessed them with? Is there a ministry you feel is going to sunset due to budget issues? How do we balance trusting God to provide with …
There is probably something I’m missing in this, but an attempt to link my Facebook page to Twitter resulted in this… DOH! Share this:EmailFacebookPrint
In small town ministry, you have to do things differently. One of the keys in a small town is good community relations with your church. A new business that opens up (on the previously-dying) town square is a big deal. The new coffee shop in town is run by a couple of Christians. They have …