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Continue reading →: ★ Book Summary: Good to Great (Collins)
Part of my doctoral program’s learning model includes reading and summarizing a large number of books. I’ll blog the appropriate ones here. Good to Great by Jim Collins HarperBusiness (2001) 200 pages Description of the Book Some organizations are good. Others are great. This book examines organizations that make the…
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Continue reading →: ★ Book Summary: Missional Church (ed. Guder)
Part of my doctoral program’s learning model includes reading and summarizing a large number of books. I’ll blog the appropriate ones here. Missional Church ed. by Darrell Guder Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co. (1998) 280 pages Description of the Book The church in North America is in crisis. The culture…
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Continue reading →: ★ Book Summary: Street Signs (Bakke/Sharpe)
Part of my doctoral program’s learning model includes reading and summarizing a large number of books. I’ll blog the appropriate ones here. Street Signs by Ray Bakke and Jon Sharpe New Hope Publishers (2006) 285 pages Description of the Book Cities are important to God, who is at work bringing…
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Continue reading →: ★ Airplane Mode
I’m enjoying reading about productivity and organization tips from fellow technology/pastor types like Todd Hiestand and Bob Hyatt (who also writes PastorHacks). These guys use some form of GTD, and I use some (light, shifting) form of GTD as well. Here’s a quick tip that Todd shared a while back…
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Categories: Faith
★ Another Merton Quote (a repeat)
Continue reading →: ★ Another Merton Quote (a repeat)My God, I pray better to You by breathing, I pray better to You by walking than by talking “Dialogues with Silence: Prayers & Drawings” (Thomas Merton), p. 57 I’ve blogged this before, I’m certain, but it bears repeating. Have I mentioned lately how much I enjoy reading Thomas Merton?
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Continue reading →: ★ If You (Merton)
If You allow people to praise me, I shall not worry. If You let them blame me, I shall worry even less. If You send me work, I shall embrace it with joy. It will be rest to me because it is Your will. If You send me rest, I…
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Continue reading →: ★ These Three Things
I met last week for the first time with a spiritual director. The time was beneficial, and I think the relationship will grow in a great way. These are the three things he encouraged me to pursue, based on the strands of themes that he heard me talking about and…
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Continue reading →: ★ Installed Seesmic plugin
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Continue reading →: Things They Tell Church Planters That Are Simply Wrong
Next weekend, Mother’s Day, marks the fifth anniversary of the launch of the church that my family planted and that a year ago closed its doors (for the second but final time). I’ve been thinking lately about the process of starting new churches. A lot of that thinking comes from…
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Continue reading →: ★ My Beautiful Idol – Pete Gall
A short while ago I was happy to hear that I’d “made the cut” into a book review group with The Ooze. It’s a very nice setup – I get books sent my way, I read and write reviews here, and it’s free. Free books, and all I have to…
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Things I do: Engineering leadership; Grad Instructor in spirituality, creativity, digital personhood, pilgrimage.
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