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Great Example of Ministry Communication

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.I’m always curious about how churches communicate with the insiders. Particularly, I love finding out how individual ministries communicate with volunteers.
Earlier today, Carlos Twittered about his video editor, Josh Peters. [...]

GTD’ing My Own Way

Back in high school, my English teacher told me that she thought I actually had ADD. It wasn’t news to me. I’d never been the most focused kid, but I always thought it was just a teenage thing and that it wasn’t indicative of anything mental. She disagreed.
Since then, I’ve realized that, while I’m still [...]

Sunday Set List - 4/20/08 [Plus More Fun]

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 [...]

A Short Piece on Categories [And a Great Vid]

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 [...]

Meme, Myself and I

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 [...]

The Back-End of Risk & How to Grow a Pair [2 0f 2]

I posted a short article last week about risk and maintaining a risk-taking culture as your church grows. Over the weekend, I realized my own inexperience and lack knowledge disqualify me from speaking authoritatively on this subject.
I decided not to pretend to know what I’m talking about on this particular topic and, rather, just give [...]

Do you ever run out of things to say?

It’s awkward.

Latest on the News Ticker

Guy Kawasaki just posted a “Formal Announcement” of Alltop, the popurls.com-like website that funnels “all the top content from around the web” into one place for easy consumption. The site publicizes content from all of the most valuable websites and puts it on one page that’s categorized by topic.
My personal favorite is the Social Media [...]