August 2010
61 posts
Author: More teens becoming 'fake' Christians →
Interesting article… what do you think?
“Is your default mode toward others judgment or grace?”
– @rickwarren
“No man was ever so much deceived by another as by himself.”
– Greville
“Organization and good planning are just crutches for people that can’t...”
“I don’t know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.”
– E. B. White
Leading from realism
I distinctly remember a workshop I attended in 1995. Speaker Jim Wideman (still very actively mentoring ministry leaders here) taught me the valuable lesson to “think bigger.” I am not sure what he called it, but in essence, he told the audience that one of the reasons your ministry is not larger/better/more effective than it was last year is because you’ve set up an infrastructure, systems and...
America in Color from 1939-1943 →
These images, by photographers of the Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information, are some of the only color photographs taken of the effects of the Depression on America’s rural and small town populations. The photographs are the property of the Library of Congress and were included in a 2006 exhibit Bound for Glory: America in Color.
WatchI loved this video, again. I took another 2 pages of notes. I believe this is the 3rd time I’ve seen this talk, but it is as profound as the first time I heard Ken speak.
Don't be a Green Roomer! #kidmin →
Last week I was at Group Publishing. We were planning out a new KidMin conference that you will hear about soon. We were discussing key note speakers. One thing that we all agreed on was that we wanted key note speakers who were accessible. We don’t want someone who comes in, stays in the Green Room…
read the rest of Dale’s post here.
Faith Is Not a Subject | Holy Soup →
People describe the Christian faith as a “personal relationship with Jesus.” But in the church, how have we gone about encouraging and developing that relationship with Christ? Sadly, our church services, classes and programs rarely pursue that relationship like, well, like a real relationship. It’s not for lack of good intentions. At some point, years ago, we somehow got the idea that the church...
“John, hold my hand… this might be scary!”
– Jack, at the planetarium, right before the lights go off
“Excuse me, my karma just ran over your dogma.”
“If you can’t beat them, arrange to have them beaten.”
– George Carlin
“Successful people are successful because they form the habits of doing those...”
– Albert Gray
“To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.”
– Emily Dickinson
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“We have a tendency to hang very heavy weights on very thin wires.”
– Alexander Whyte
God only directs a moving ship.
“People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the...”
– Iris Murdoch
“Only God is in a position to look down on anyone.”
“Whatever a man puts into his mind and thinks about determines what he will feel....”
– Philippians 4:8 (New International Version)
8Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable—if anything is excellent or praiseworthy—think about such things.
“The one marvelous secret of a holy life lies not in imitating Jesus but in...”
– Oswald Chambers
Reminder
Remember, you have the power to really make an indifference in the world today.
The five-second rule →
markmilian:
It’s OK to brush off the bagel that fell from the stroller onto the sidewalk and give it to your screaming child, for example, because the pavement is cleaner than the kitchen floor in terms of the types of germs that cause illnesses.
Your kitchen is disgusting.
Pedal Power in Amsterdam →
“When the spirits are low, when the day appears dark, when work becomes monotonous, when hope hardly seems worth having, just mount a bicycle and go out for a spin down the road, without thought on anything but the ride you are taking.” -Arthur Conan Doyle
“The person who reads too much and uses his brain too little will fall into lazy...”
– Albert Einstein
“Don’t ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.”
– Robert Frost
“Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.”
– Benjamin Franklin
Three sites that help you own less
I have always hated the fact that I own quite a few items we only use “religiously,” only at Christmastime, Easter and on Mother’s Day (so to speak). I’m thinking of my camping gear (we use it every other summer, if that), our selection of ice chests of various sizes and purposes, pressure washer, lawn mower and meat smoker (trust me, you can’t smoke everything, every...
“I like thinking big. If you’re going to be thinking anything, you might as...”
– Donald Trump
“Start every day with a smile and get it over with.”
– W. C. Fields
“When you are eight years old, nothing is any of your business.”
– Lenny Bruce
“Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after another.”
– W. Elliott