Moving toward something bigger than myself.
Welcome. I write for church leaders on topics like strategy and communication. Since this is your first visit, don’t forget to subscribe to my RSS feed.After I posted the offer to do free Wordpress installs for church leaders, I received dozens of requests. “Dozens” may not seem like a lot to an uber-blogger like Los [...]
People know you’re a Christian even if you don’t tell them. That fact could either be exciting or scary, depending on how you live. Erica (my wife) has a story for you about what happened to her yesterday at work. Ain’t she just the cutest thing?
Erica tells a story from Scott Magdalein on Vimeo.
Endure this short rant and I’ll publish something awesome tomorrow. I promise. In fact, I’ll be giving something away for free!
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I feel like I’ve had SEO (Search Engine Optimization) crammed down my throat for several months now. It may have been around before then, but SEO seems to be gaining traction as the current mystical [...]
Marvelous Light (Charlie Hall)
How Great is Our God (Chris Tomlin)
I Will Lift My Eyes (Bebo Norman)
Jesus Paid it All (Kristian Stanfill)
Dancing Generation (Matt Redman)
Today was a fun day. Here are some extra highlights.
The student band played today in place of the regular adult band. The two are very different, as you’d expect, but the student [...]
I was talking with a new friend earlier this week about setting him up with a Wordpress blog and helping him make the switch from Typepad. He only had a few questions, but one of those questions was about categories and how to use them effectively on his blog.
It’s one of those things that I [...]
I’ve always been a big fan of churches releasing their materials for the sake of wider use. In particular, I enjoy reading other churches’ resources concerning worship, seeing what other churches are doing, and figuring out where our church fits in that matrix.
In light of that, I’ve placed a couple links to two documents we [...]
I’ve never been a big fan of memes like this and in the past I’ve just ignored them. This time is a little different. The guy who tagged me (TC) is a good guy and he meant well in tagging me, so I decided to participate. Plus, judging from the people he tagged, I expect [...]
According to Wikipedia (my go-to encyclopedia), captcha is a type of challenge-response test used in computing to determine that the user is not run by a computer. The purpose of captcha is to stop unwanted visitors to your site from participating in your site’s community (aka spam). You’ll mainly find it when trying to comment [...]
This is the best video that the Catalyst Road-Trip guys have done so far. Specifically, Matt Keller hits a home run during this quick, logical rant on the potential of the Millennial generation to reach the world with the Gospel. More discussion below the video.
Catalyst Voices - Matt Keller from Catalyst on Vimeo.
I have a [...]
I used to read blogs about productivity like a marathoner drinks water. I frequented blogs like 43Folders and PutThingsOff and ZenHabits, but ended up wasting more time than I saved.
Here are five truths about productivity systems that nobody else will tell you:
They only work for people who don’t have very much to do.
They add more [...]
Me & Erica in Litomerice, CZ