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 […]
Presence..
In ministry, should we be pro-actively pursuing technology innovations that allow us to effectively be in the office less and out among the people more. I have a hard time picturing Paul spending a whole lot of time in an office outside of prep/prayer, if it were available to him. […]
Error 500 – Internal server error in WordPress
If you are getting Error 500 messages on 1&1 this may be your fix… It happened to work for me. The culprit is that 1&1 defaults to PHP version 4, not version 5. Try these lines in your .htaccess file: AddType x-mapp-php5 .php AddHandler x-mapp-php5 .php You can read more […]
Facebook Status
This was from a guy I went to college with: Worship at Northland Baptist, wish you (yes you reading this) were here! Hope you are worshipping somewhere this morning. Some people are at football game worshipping better than most church goers. They dress for the occasion, the are much more […]
Zombies?
You have got to be kidding me….. How could this be of any educational value? Parents, anyone up for shelling out for this class for your kids? You run into resistence when the Bible comes into play, but Zombies are fair game.. Something seems backwards here… Zombie-themed college course: Would […]
The “Designer Imposters” approach to ministry….
How much time and effort do we spend trying to imitate another church/ministry? We are called for a specific place and purpose, so why do we need to mimic another church or ministry? We even sometimes market like the picture above – “if you like x church, you’ll love our […]
Is it ever OK to lie?
Posted by pastorshawn Lets say you were on a mission trip to smuggle bibles across a closed country’s border. Upon arriving at the check point the officials ask you if you have any bibles in the car. Do you lie? When we lie, regardless of the situation. what we are […]
New Birth…
p> Yesterday at the farm I had the chance to see this newborn (he was very newborn, as in still wet..) baby calf. When he got up he was still wobbly, and mama cow was very protective. This got me thinking about how things should operate in the church when […]
You Might Be a Youth Worker if…
Tim Schmoyer at StudentMinistry.org did one of the funniest video posts I think he has ever done the other day… I can relate to a lot of the top 10 “You Might Be A Youth Worker If” statements (but I’m not telling which ones….) Here’s the video… Here’s 300 more […]
Church Planter.
Wow. This is worth watching… via YouTube – Darrin Patrick | Re:Lit Book | Church Planter Intro.
Random Abortion Stats
Abortions since 1973 equals population of 25 least populated states of the US plus DC. .. (45 Million through 2008) Planned parenthood’s own stats say 95-98 ostentation of the abortions they perform are for convenience. { not rape, incest, or fetal abnormality} SBC’s efforts regarding Crisis Pregnancy Centers: As of […]
TerreStar Genus hybrid satellite phone hits AT&T…..
The cure for bad coverage? There are not words to describe the money you’d burn using this phone…but if you could afford this phone, you wouldn’t care… TerreStar Genus hybrid satellite phone hits AT&T at long last for $799 — Engadget.