Monthly Archive: December 2002

brush with megachurch greatness 0

brush with megachurch greatness

I was a fan of late night tv during my college years, more Letterman than Carson/Leno.. what came to mind today was his “Brush with Greatness” interviews (where audience members tell stories of encounters with celebrities, and the staff writers...

conversational questions 0

conversational questions

9 Questions that Lead to Answers — conversational tools for digging deeper:: 1. That’s an interesting question. What do you think? 2. What situation in your life makes you wonder about that? 3. Even though you don’t know, if you...

ideas, people, & insomnia 0

ideas, people, & insomnia

I’m addicted to ideas.. 🙂 lined up 3 meetings to hang out with people on Wednesday, and loved the engaging dialogue.. on occasion now, I get to actually meet in person a fellow blogger, and while a few conversations were...

mi casa su casa 0

mi casa su casa

after a good breakfast meeting with a pastor friend the other day, I gave a ride to a Hispanic-looking gentleman, who was looking for directions to Tysons II, but struggled with a broken English.. I pointed over toward a taller...

unsafe church talk 0

unsafe church talk

Recent conversation I found helpful, a friend said: “With insecure people, anything you say is [perceived] negative.” For me, I believe conversation and sharing in the open should be done, that information is just data, and mostly neutral. I don’t...

snowed in 0

snowed in

snowed in! perfect weather for blogging 🙂 although perfect for blogging, i didn’t have time to do more thoughtful things here b/c of a work deadline breathing down, spent all day mouse-clicking to get things in place, and working a...

life change disconnect 0

life change disconnect

I’ve been dousing myself with sermons, while I scour the web to index free online MP3 messages.. and the thought crosses my mind, and lingers around, that with all this great preaching and oration, and numbers of churches that have...