I don’t know how to describe where we are staying in Serengeti National Park-kind of like a lodge that serves 3 meals and kind of like camping. This is a temporary camp, currently at S02 25.02 E034 53.59, that moves around every few months (think M*A*S*H) in order to minimize environmental impact and to stay [...]
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In Part 1, I explained how Erasto’s persistence and confidence in God’s providence led to the sabbatical trip we’re taking. But, of course, there is more to the story. Laura started Living Water Christian Church in April 2004. Two years ago she began to discuss the idea of her taking sabbatical somewhere around the seven-year [...]
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Blogrolling.com shut down today, which disabled the church IT blogroll that I maintain. I am in the process of moving the blogroll to Feevy.com. Here is the new script: <script type=’text/javascript’ src=’http://www.feevy.com/code/18581/open-css’></script> If your blog is using the blogrolling.com script, please replace it with the Feevy script above.
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At the worship planning retreat this evening we were asked to take a walk and collect metaphors – something that could be used as a sermon illustration. My method of collection was to take pictures. Do you have any suggestions for captions for these photos that would point out a sermonic metaphor?
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This post is homework for the Internet Campus Strategic Project Team at Resurrection. Those of you not on our project team, feel free to learn along with us. 1. Read/view the following blog posts and videos and be prepared to share your reactions at our next meeting. Senior Pastor Adam Hamilton’s eNote of August 24, [...]
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I’ve been at the Methodist Congress on Evangelism this week with Chuck Russell. This is the annual national evangelism conference for the United Methodist denomination. Chuck and I were asked to present on the role of a congregation’s website in evangelism. Chuck covered the basics and I talked about sermon content delivery, social networking and [...]
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I know I’m not the first person to have a bad customer experience at Best Buy. Neither will I be the last, no doubt. This is what happened last week. I went with my daughter, who is a college junior, to Best Buy to look for a laptop. (Why didn’t we purchase it online? Because [...]
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Once again, the Church IT RoundTable managed to be the coolest thing ever. Here are my quick, contemporaneous notes from the roundtable sessions. I moderated in Studio B, so my ability to take good notes was limited. Conference WiFi 24 laptops in the room. Most if not all connected to the demo Xirrus array in [...]
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David Kinnaman, President of The Barna Group and author of unChristian, gave a talk at Resurrection tonight and took questions from Adam and the audience. Here are my notes. David has been with Barna for 14 years, since he was a junior in college (which makes him approx. 35). The public thinks present-day Christianity is [...]
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If it’s true that the staff that plays together stays together, then today was a good day at Resurrection. Lots of good-natured trash talk before and lots of fun during the First Annual? Staff Flag Football Classic. Naturally, I snapped a few pics. Check out my Flickr set for more gripping action shots!
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