May, 2008
Week 1 - Ragamuffin Top
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‘Los of RagamuffinSoul.com fame has come up with a weight loss plan. Ragamuffin Top in honor of the infamous muffin top:
Since ‘Los get a ridiculous number of readers everyday (around 3,000) there are [...]
Leading Change
Leading Healthy Change in Your Church - Glen Sartain
How do we move through change?
What do you do before the change?
Why do we fear change?
Forgotten Dreams
Erases the past
Atrophy
Replaces an ideal
Change doesn’t always bring about the ideal but sometimes we just have to go do something.
Why must we embrace change
Emotion can’t be trusted
Momentum is your friend
Biblical precedence
Rallying [...]
Change is a Four-Letter Word - Glen Sartain
1 Cor. 2:9
God wants to blow your mind with what he does.
So, if that’s the case then why are we not seeing mind blowing things in the world?
In order to understand our future, we need to understand our past.
Our past influences our future. Gen. 49:1
The past can be a reminder of God’s grace. 1 Sam. [...]
What Opportunities Do You Take?
What Opportunities Do You Take?
How Should We Teach?
For years I have tried to be as clear as I can when talking about Jesus, about the Kingdom, and about what it means to follow Jesus in building the Kingdom. Then I read something in Luke 8 (youversion.com link for context) today that caught my attention like never before.
[Jesus] said, “The knowledge of [...]
Ride to Work!
Rode my bike into work for the first time today. Not too long, 7 miles. Here is the end of my ride…
Concert
Went to a concert last night with a few sr. highers. Christopher Ames opened up with a few songs, then Everyday Sunday, and Decemberadio headlined. Turns out the kids that I took liked Everyday Sunday the best! So I put together a little slideshow of Everyday Sunday pics. If you are interested [...]
Final Warning?
On Thursday I brought my grandmother back to her house in The-Middle-Of-Nowhere, New York where the bovine residents literally out number the human residents. While making my way back home I noticed this sign out in front of a run down, small, country church.
All I could manage was laughing to myself while at the [...]
Making A Difference
The word that is coming through from all the tweets is that Rick Warren spoke this morning at his “stealth” invitation only conference (Purpose Driven Summit 2008.) It sounded like he heavily pushed his P.E.A.C.E plan and an interesting statistic caught my eye. It seems that to date, Saddleback has sent out over 8,000 people [...]
Liberation, Justice & Hope
Came across what I thought was a great section while reading Surprised By Hope yesterday! Sometimes NT Wright can write in an extremely academic way, sometimes I even have to stop and look up a word! Anyway, in this selection Wright says it as plain as day:
Who after all, was it who [...]
