red eyed return
spent a few days in the Bay area (Oakland, Monterey) as part of a focus group, aka marketing study, for an upcoming event.. and perhaps it should be no surprise, but it was to me, that the fast pace and...
Monthly Archive: January 2004
a day of motivational speak
just got an email invite to a full day of motivational speakers ranting and pumping you up : “Get Motivated Seminars want to give YOU the best seats in the house on Tuesday, April 6th, 2004 at The GET MOTIVATED...
another sneak preview
nobody asked me, but I would have flown halfway or all-the-way cross country to get in on it 🙂 ..fellow blogger Scott Hodge saw it too, and then I found another person who was in on the sneak preview of...
church as junket
Fascinating to me how the distributor of the Mel Gibson funded (produced, is the more proper word) movie about Jesus Christ has tapped into a zealous market, the evangelicals, and I’m anticipating they will easily recoup the costs and make...
asking great questions
Brian McLaren shared these great questions yesterday, to ask in a kind and listening posture, towards normal people and fellow disciples (tho’ Jen would prefer to blur the distinction) Questions for normal people: 1. Where are you in your spiritual...
what’s wrong, exactly?
Question >> What is it exactly that offends you about the Rickshaw Rally series. I am a Southern Baptist and we have used themed VBS curriculums for years. Previous years have been western oriented(cowboy stuff), space, mountain climbing, sea adventure...
the divergent churches
lots of books recently published about the church: the emerging church, the connecting church, the contagious church, the emotionally healthy church, the equipping church, the ripple church, the liquid church, the eternal church, the very large church, the market-driven church,...
still need the leader
a lot of me loves the conversations about the emerging church and how it’s asking great questions + rethinking + exploring ideas + reconfiguring + having an edgy attitude + prying out raw honesty + deconstructing + admitting brokenness.. and...