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Is the World Coming to an End? Guy Kawasaki and Steve Ballmer on the Same S
2008-03-13 10:57:00 I watched an hour-long video of an interview that Guy Kawasaki , the Apple guy, did with Steve Ballmer, the Microsoft guy at a Microsoft event, no less, called Mix 08. It was a painful dance to watch Guy interview Steve and ask a lot of really difficult questions, many of which Steve struggled to answer. ... More About: World , Steve Ballmer , The World
Tim Stevens perspective on leadership
2008-03-12 10:19:00 Tim Stevens is the x-pastor @ Granger Community. He had this great perspective on how far this whole “leadership thing” should expend into your life. I think that leadership translates beyond your professional career. A real leader pays attention to his/her marriage, gives time to his/her kids, and invests in relationships that matter. A real ... More About: Leadership , Perspective
COOL QUOTES: What we need is spiritual power
2008-03-11 16:14:00 ?It is extraordinary power from God, not talent, that wins the day. It is extraordinary spiritual unction not extraordinary mental power, that we need. Mental power may fill a chapel but spiritual power fills the church with soul anguish. Mental power may gather a large congregation. but only spiritual power will save souls. What we ... More About: Power , Cool , Quotes , Spiritual
The Long Slide to Irrelevance
2008-03-11 10:50:00 Things are changing, have you noticed? Rapidly. Last week Apple announced the release of their SDK to developers, to take the iPhone to the next level. If you watched the presentation, maybe it soaked in, they were living in a very, very different world. Those who are not able to keep up ... More About: Innovation , Slide , Long , Emerging Church
CONFESSIONS OF A HAPPY PASTOR: Bret Favre Retires
2008-03-10 08:17:00 It was a painful day when I had to watch Bret Favre at the news conference announce his retirement. It was beyond being depressing because we won?t see him in a Packers uniform anymore. I was impressed with many of the things Favre said. One of the things that really stood out ... More About: Confessions , Happy , Pastor 2008-03-09 22:58:00 Today @ The Gathering we continued our series, ?Angry in America,? with the message entitled ?What to Do When Angry People Come After You.? Too many of us think that Christianity is just about being right with God; about forgiveness of sin, and about going to heaven when we die. We have a very narrow, ...
5 Things I Must Have in the Church That I Will Attend Tomorrow
2008-03-08 14:04:00 Attending church tomorrow ought to be a decision you’ve already made. It’s a good thing to do, a smart thing to do; if nothing more than for the discipline that says an awfully lot about who you are and what you want out of life. The question is, what kind of church ... More About: Church , Things , Tomorrow , The Church , The Gathering
This Weekend @ the Gathering ? March 9
2008-03-07 23:10:00 Join us this weekend @ The Gathering as we continue in our current series, ?Angry In America,? with the 4th installment entitled ?What to Do When Angry People Come After You.? We live in a world where everyone we meet is wounded and hurt somewhere. The question is, where? And what event brings it out? Sometimes ... More About: Weekend , March
Dare to define your R.O.W.S
2008-03-06 16:18:00 With oil going over $105.00 a barrel this week, I am reminded of a trend that is arising partly out of necessity and partly out of the new possibilities. That trend is the tendency for the brightest and best among us to opt out of a 9 to 5 job where you are locked up ... More About: Innovation , Pastors , Dare , Define
Fosterism:
2008-03-05 10:29:00 “A mission that can attract missionaries is a movement. That?s why religion has never been a friend of Jesus, because just the minute you try to build a stagnant structure around Him, He moves and all those who follow Him move with Him. While religion draws boxes to exclude, and buildings to house; ... More About: Blog
10 Ways Angry People Change the World
2008-03-04 08:44:00 Things change. But whether they change for the better or not depends on what people do; not just any kind of people, but angry people. Yes, you heard it right. It?s angry people who change the world. Comfortable, satisfied, stuck-in-a-rut, trying-to-protect-my-turf people don?t change the world. They nurse the status ... More About: People , World , Change , Blog , The World
CONFESSIONS OF A HAPPY PASTOR: Don?t Give Me a History Lesson of My Diseas
2008-03-03 16:00:00 As a pastor, I am called to speak for God. What an ominous task and gracious privilege. When you spoke yesterday, were you like a physician giving the history of the disease; where it came from, what it does, how it mutates and permeates through families? Or were you more apt to offer ... More About: History , Confessions , Happy , Give , Lesson
Today @ The Gathering - March 2nd
2008-03-02 22:33:00 Today @ The Gathering we heard the third installment of our new series, ?Angry in America,? with the message entitled ?I Use Anger to Punish Myself.? . We reviewed the five myths of anger. Anger is avoidable, bad, always destructive, should never be expressed, and can be managed. We went on to learn about self-inflicted ... More About: Today , March
I Am Not-Good-at-Jumping-Hurdles Guy, and I?m Coming to Your Church Tomorro
2008-03-01 10:59:00 In less than 24 hours millions of people will gather across America to go to church. Attending church is an American institution and that?s a good thing. And done right, it?s a God thing. Attending church has received a lot of bad press even from within church leaders. I myself have at times ... More About: Church , Good , Jumping
This Weekend @ the Gathering ? March 2
2008-02-29 10:16:00 This weekend @ The Gathering we will continue our new series entitled, ?Angry in America.? This series has really touched a nerve across the board. Anger is the one thing we all deal with, but we don?t want to talk about. In the third installment this week, we?ll deal with the subject, ?I Use ... More About: Blog , Weekend , March
What?s your point? Make it and get out of the way.
2008-02-28 10:50:00 I?m amazed at how many communicators and leaders can?t simply answer in a short, compelling way, this question, ?What?s your point?? What is your point? What is the lead point of what you do and what you are all about? Can you say it in a short speech? We call it ... More About: Make , Point
Larry Norman?s right ?Why should the devil have all the great music??
2008-02-27 11:37:00 We Lost a great soul this past weekend. Larry Norman passed away and he will be missed: Share This More About: Music , People , Stories , Great
How I Define ?Organized Religion? and Why I Believe It?s at the Heart of th
2008-02-27 09:10:00 Question: How do you define organized religion? Answer: I define organized religion as the institutionalization of Christianity. It?s the effort that has arisen over many decades and centuries, to take the core message of the gospel and to use it as a source of power and control. Most of us will acknowledge that we are ... More About: Religion , Heart , The Heart , Define
How Do You Know You?re The Pastor of a Growing Church?
2008-02-25 10:26:00 Every pastor, just like every businessman, wants to be successful. For both pastors and businessmen the same criteria are applied for success ? are you growing? Now if you take the attendance yesterday, depending on whether it was a good day or a bad day, you might feel really good about the growth of your ... More About: Church , Growing , Pastor
Today @ The Gathering - February 24th
2008-02-24 23:03:00 Today @ The Gathering we continued our brand new series entitled ?Angry In America? with the second installment, ?I?m Angry Because Life is Unfair.? . It doesn?t take very long to realize that, while all men and women are created equal, life has a way of separating us. Some people seem to have all the advantages, ... More About: Today , February
If You?re Thinking About Attending Church Tomorrow, Here Are Some Really Go
2008-02-23 09:18:00 Attending church has come under fire lately both from within and without a religious environment. We place an emphasis on being the church, not just going to church. But the genius is not in one or the other. It?s both/and. We are a gathering people. God expects us to go ... More About: Church , Tomorrow , Thinking
Yet Another Christian Leader Calls for Christians to Pull Out of All Public
2008-02-21 20:27:00 I read this week that another so-called Christian leader says the time has come that all Christians should abandon public schools. His excuses are the same as the others. The schools are too far gone, too ungodly, and too immoral to be redeemed. Therefore, the only thing a true Christian can do is retreat ... More About: Public , Calls , Leader
Dave Rave -10 Attributes of Leadership
2008-02-19 09:59:00 Leadership is a mysterious thing. It’s hard to define, though easy to recognize. Many people call themselves leaders and yet we are in desperate need of leadership. One of the things we can do is try to know and recognize the qualities of leadership when we see them. So here are ... More About: Leadership , Blog , Rave , Dave
The One Thing You Can Do This Week That Can Double Your Effectiveness As a
2008-02-18 16:31:00 How many times have you gotten through speaking and you felt terrible regret immediately? You know what I?m talking about; that feeling though you stood and gave it your all in the moment, something was missing. There wasn?t that spark, that connection between you and your audience. We?ve all felt ... More About: Double , Week , Thing
Today @ The Gathering - February 17th
2008-02-18 02:29:00 Today @ The Gathering we started our brand new series, “Angry In America.” During the next five weeks we’ll deal with the question, “If we have it made in America, why are so many so angry so often?” . In today’s installment we dealt with the five most misleading myths about anger. These are supposedly the truth statements about anger that make anger some mysterious emotion that we don’t really know how to deal with. The five anger myths are: 1. Anger is avoidable. 2. Anger is bad. 3. Anger is always destructive. 4. Anger should never be expressed. 5. Anger can be managed. The rest of the talk dealt with the three ways we express anger. And last, how we can calmly, rationally, and with maturity address our anger. This was a great start to this new 5-part series. If you know someone who can benefit from this subject, make sure you give them a personal invitation to either our 9:00 or 10:30 service next week when the message will be, “I’m Angry Bec... More About: Today , February
If We?ve Got it Made in America, Why Are So Many So Mad?
2008-02-16 10:03:00 Tomorrow I?m going to begin a really important series called ?Angry in America .? It?s really important because we?re living in a world that?s growing ever more hostile. The tensions created by political campaigns, wars, government spending, lay-offs, mortgage foreclosures, frustration; and futility that comes from the collapse of the things and institutions we?ve ... More About: Blog , Made
Happy Valentine?s Day Paula; here are the 16 things I mean when I say those
2008-02-14 23:15:00 Today is Valentine s Day. A lot of ?I love you?s? will be passed around. When I tell my Paula ?I love you? here is what I mean: I love you for the kind of man you have ... More About: Happy , Things
The Key to Being Successful at Business or Anything Else You Try
2008-02-13 14:42:00 If someone were to ask you whom you work for, how would you respond? Would it be the name of a bank, a company, a nationally known conglomerate, or would it be the right answer ? yourself. Whether you work for someone or not, at the end of the day, you?re working for yourself. You?re ... More About: Business
Five Guys Serve a Lot More Than a Great Burger; An Even Greater Attitude
2008-02-11 18:23:00 There’s a new restaurant that recently opened in the Green Hills area called “Five Guys Burger s.” I wasn’t that impressed. It didn’t look very inviting. But I kept hearing really good things about them, so I decided to check them out. When I went in I was overwhelmed with how clean the place is, and while it was simple, it was inviting. People who waited on me were happy, well informed, knew exactly how to give me what I needed, and when I ate my food I was very satisfied. Great burger, great fries, great everything. The thing that really topped the experience off was when I went to get my drink I saw a sign on each one of the soda fountains. It was a “thank you” note to the customers. A “thank you” note? I’ve never read a “thank you” note in all the places I’ve eaten and all the times I’ve gone out. They actually thank me for coming in? They actually thank me for giving them my money? Wow, what a concept! What a cutting-edge marketing ploy to... More About: Attitude , Serve
Today @ The Gathering - February 10th
More articles from this author:2008-02-10 23:51:00 Today @ The Gathering we completed our series “Finding My Motivation” with the message, “The 4 Essentials of an Energetic Life: How to keep what you’d pay a fortune to get back once you lose it.” . Like our creator, we are a trinity. We have a body, which houses a soul and a spirit. Those are the three parts. We’re not a single unit. And any time you have more than two of anything, alignment is critical. So today we talked about bringing our lives into alignment with the way God created us. We began the talk today with the three worldviews that relate to material things. We talked about the Greek influence, which is expressed in the word “bad.” Basically all material things are bad and lead to evil, and cannot be controlled and therefore they are to be ignored and just simply let loose. The Roman influence which expressed the view of material in the spiritual combination as “big deal.” Neither one really matter. The material world is there to be exploited... More About: Today , February 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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