General Assembly of the Christian Church is a family affair for us. My dad was a DOC pastor and his sister Marje also married a DOC pastor, Mickey. Uncle Mickey also had brothers who were DOC pastors. Each of them had children that are DOC pastors: my brother, Greg, and his wife, Karen; my sister, [...]
Filed under: Uncategorized | No Comments »
At the end of the evening worship service on Tuesday, there was a brief celebration of the new Disciples of Christ congregations established since 2001 and a prayer for the planters. Those planters who were available that night went up on the stage with Rick Morse, the head of our new church organization. To Rick’s [...]
Filed under: Uncategorized | 1 Comment »
On July 15 I preached at Living Water because Laura was out on a mission trip. I talked about the new church movement within Disciples of Christ. We have the most active and dynamic new church initiative of all mainline denominations. In the sermon, I mentioned two key people in our new church movement: Dick [...]
Filed under: Uncategorized | No Comments »
Sunday night, the head of our denomination (we use the fancy title “General Minister and President” or GMP for short), Sharon Watkins, spoke on the State of the Church. Though flawed in some ways (for example, it was too long and too repetitive), her message was very powerful and motivating. She showed great leadership by [...]
Filed under: Uncategorized | No Comments »
Sunday morning we attended the youth worship service in the main auditorium at the Fort Worth Convention Center. It was the best worship service we’ve ever experienced at General Assembly. It was so good, in fact, that Laura bought a DVD of the service so we can show it to Living Water when we get [...]
Filed under: Uncategorized | No Comments »
Our family has been in Fort Worth since last Wednesday for the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) bi-annual General Assembly. I’m a life-long Disciple. My dad was a Disciple pastor for 40+ years; my sister, brother, and sister-in-law are DOC pastors; and now my wife is a DOC church planter. Yes, I’m a church nerd [...]
Filed under: Uncategorized | No Comments »
A few days ago Guy Kawasaki reviewed the top 9 stories that people like to talk about as explained in a new book by Lois Kelly. The idea is to use these types of stories whenever you’re trying to persuade people to believe something or do something. In my experience, we IT people aren’t especially [...]
Filed under: Uncategorized | No Comments »
Church of the Resurrection got a very nice write up in the July 2007 issue of Church Executive magazine regarding the Best Christian Workplaces survey and what we’ve been doing over the last few years to improve our human resources process. Our own Dan Entwistle (one of our top two executives reporting to our senior [...]
Filed under: Uncategorized | 1 Comment »
