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Continue reading →: Happy Mother’s Day
Happy Mother’s Day to women everywhere. I hope you realize how unique and precious your life is, and how much of a gift you are to the guys in your world.
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Continue reading →: ★ If I had a personal assistant…
I would ask my assistant to organize my books on my shelves, sticker them with a library of congress ID or a dewey decimal ID or something, which would put the like books together, and then make sure they were all in my LibraryThing. Then I could find the books…
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Continue reading →: If I had a personal assistant…
I would ask my assistant to organize my books on my shelves, sticker them with a library of congress ID or a dewey decimal ID or something, which would put the like books together, and then make sure they were all in my LibraryThing. Then I could find the books…
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Continue reading →: ★ Improve Your Small Groups
I love small groups. Until I planted a church, I learned more in leading small groups than I had anywhere else in faith or business leadership. I just ran into a new blog – Andy Rowel’s Church Leadership Conversations. On browsing the first page, I saw several interesting entries, but…
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Continue reading →: Improve Your Small Groups
I love small groups. Until I planted a church, I learned more in leading small groups than I had anywhere else in faith or business leadership. I just ran into a new blog – Andy Rowel’s Church Leadership Conversations. On browsing the first page, I saw several interesting entries, but…
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Continue reading →: ★ Charles Ridley’s 13 Factors for Successful Church Planters
I was having lunch with one of my church plant coaches, Ed Cook, last week and describing my state of mind. He mentioned that it might be helpful to go back through a reassessment of my own skills, gifts, and calling, and referenced Dr. Charles Ridley’s church planter evaluation work…
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Continue reading →: Charles Ridley’s 13 Factors for Successful Church Planters
I was having lunch with one of my church plant coaches, Ed Cook, last week and describing my state of mind. He mentioned that it might be helpful to go back through a reassessment of my own skills, gifts, and calling, and referenced Dr. Charles Ridley’s church planter evaluation work…
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★ Theory and Practice
Continue reading →: ★ Theory and Practice“Practice without theory is blind, but theory without practice is dumb.” – N. T. Wright, New Testament and the People of God, p. 118 Good ol’ Tom Wright. In a densely packed book full of tricky phrasing, big words and deep concepts, Tom whips this out and hits me…
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Theory and Practice
Continue reading →: Theory and Practice“Practice without theory is blind, but theory without practice is dumb.” – N. T. Wright, New Testament and the People of God, p. 118 Good ol’ Tom Wright. In a densely packed book full of tricky phrasing, big words and deep concepts, Tom whips this out and hits me…
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★ Quote: Why I Journal
Continue reading →: ★ Quote: Why I JournalThis sweet quote comes from Dave Jacobs, a church planter and coach who has recently started a really nice web resource and brief email at smallchurchpastor.com “I practice journaling because I believe in meditation. I practice meditation because I believe in prayer. I practice prayer because I believe in God.…
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Things I do: Engineering leadership; Grad Instructor in spirituality, creativity, digital personhood, pilgrimage.
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