Archive for November 2008

Tomorrow, I am taking the plunge and getting married. Because of this major life change (along with the following week-long honeymoon), this is the last post until December. Don’t worry, we will be thoroughly enjoying ourselves on our honeymoon, location TBA.* This means no internet, cell phone, or Twitter. Instead, I am bringing 3 books [...]

In a previous post, I commented on Tony Morgan’s post “Churches Should Stop Marketing.” Tony has now posted a followup post entitled “Why Churches Should Stop Marketing.” Click the link and read the post before hearing my response.
Tony argues that churches view larger, “more successful” churches as models and try to mimic them. They observe [...]

Jon over at Stuff Christians Like recently wrote a post describing the sinking feeling when someone asks for a pen in church. According to Jon, there are 5 stages he will go through if you ask for a pen: Denial, Anger, Bargaining, Depression, and Acceptance (a la the five stages of grief). From the post:
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That’s right, in 5 days I will be getting married. Prayers are definitely needed, both for the upcoming wedding and honeymoon, but also for our future. Can’t wait!

Here are my favorite links from the past week:

This is an amazing tribute video honoring John Williams (awesome movie score composer): Star Wars A Capella Tribute.
Sad (yet wacky) story from Brazil: a woman is killed by her husband’s coffin.
Like Monty Python? Well then you will love the Ancient Greeks! Ancient Greek Dead Parrot Sketch.

Tony Morgan, Chief Strategic Officer at NewSpring Church and excellent ministry blogger, just posted about how he is against marketing in the church. In his words:
No more direct mail postcards. Stop the billboards and the radio ads. Take down the clever cliches on the church sign out front. End the platform announcements the bulletin [...]

In Great Britian, a 13 year old girl has decided not to allow a life-saving heart transplant surgery on herself. Hannah Jones has been battling leukemia since she was four. At the age of 5, she was given a treatment that created a hole in her heart. Now a teen, the effects of countless treatments [...]

Over the weekend I finished William P. Young’s book The Shack. I know, I am a little behind the times in reading this, the most talked about Christian book in 2008. When I hear a lot of publicity and hype about a book, I am always hesitant to read it. Sometimes the hype is too [...]

One part of my ministry at the Tabernacle is an after-school tutoring and Bible study program for children and Jr. High students. We cater this free program to students within a 3-4 block radius of the Youth Center, which makes the demographic predominantly underprivileged. Today, a single dad of one of the students came up [...]

Here are my favorite links from the past week:

The final link of the 2008 Presidential campaign: Synchronized Presidential Debate.
I am currently reading William Young’s book The Shack. Here is a book that is a satire of it: The Shaq.
Many people care about feeding the needy, but there are some that also care about feeding the [...]