Update from Last Week New Contacts Made (Liz, Heath, Ryan, Andrea) — 4 Face to Face Meetings Events Tuesday Study with one family Wednesday Bible 101 launch Thurs. hosted open mic night at coffeehouse Fri watched kids for friends Sat. hosted BBQ for soccer team Sun. hosted Vision …
We’re not competing with other churches.
One of the truths about church planting is this: We aren't competing with other churches. We are competing with all the unspiritual ways people spend their time. But sometimes it's hard to really believe it. This last weekend, Jen and I found on our door a flyer that seems to be for a new church …
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Log for June 1, 2006
What I did today: Met with Tom for lunch and talked through the Bible 101 lesson 1 as well as a ton of other stuff. The dude just won’t let me pay for meals! Mowed the Lawn! Did the MC thing for the coffeehouse and played a couple tunes myself (Still Know How to Groove by Everybodyduck, and …
Popple Rocks
It's late at night and my wife is asleep on the couch, but I just have to post this before I go to bed. Tonight at the Skylight Coffeehouse in Lafayette, I went to the open mic night as I usually do on Thursdays. Tonight, however, I was actually hosting, and I performed a little bit myself, but we …
Log for May 31, 2006
Jen and I just got back on Monday from our conference up in Green Lake. Yesterday was spent catching up with email, performing security upgrades to church websites, making some phone call reminders of Bible 101, and meeting two fellows who came to set up our Air Conditioner (it was …
How to Offer Constructive Criticism
Here's something I learned from my recent meeting with a church consultant---nothing that he taught me, but some things that I perceived in the way he handled the meeting with me. One of the most important things a person in leadership can learn is how to offer constructive criticism to an employee …
What’s Wrong with Me? — Follow-up
I just thought I'd write a follow-up to my previous blog... The church consultant had just a few things to tell me: The problems at NWBC were there long before I ever came, and in no way did I cause them. My leadership was such that many of the problems that were "under the table" were brought to …
What’s Wrong with Me? — Facing my problems again.
Warning: self-critical blog alert. NWBC Update It has been a few months since I left Northwest Baptist Church, and in the intervening months, NWBC has been going through a process of evaluation with a church consultant. From what I have heard, the process has been challenging and helpful. The …
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Paper Airplanes
Charlie has gotten me hooked on paper airplanes again. As a kid, I used to make hundreds of them. My friend had a book with what must have been 50 designes, and we memorized them all. I can still remember some of them, but there are others I can't remember at all. Anyway, as I've gotten back into …
Some Game Sites
I've had some good responses from my few game postings, so here are a couple of more links to some cool games and sites: www.armorgames.com -- flash games jayisgames.com -- a blog site reviewing games. Dumb: The Game -- test how dumb you are. Room Escape -- post a comment if you can escape from …
In the Beginning(s)
How the Perfect Creation was Corrupted Nothing existed except for God, and he decided when everything should begin. He created the world in a flash of light, and built it up piece by piece until it was exactly the way he wanted it, but despite its beauty and greatness, he noticed something was …
Explaining the Whole Bible
As I have spoken with people about the Bible, I find more and more that people aren't really familiar with the "plot" or the overall story of the Bible. Therefore, I'm going to try to go through the entire story of the Bible in a very brief overview fashion. The challenge is that I don't want to …
Log for May 10, 2006
My day: Connecting Meet with Kerry Bowman, lead/founding pastor of Eagle Church in Zionsville, just north of Indianapolis. Kerry is going through a process right now of trying to recover his “strategic” focus in the church and beyond the church walls considering that he has been …
Trials and Tribulations with Ashley Furniture
UPDATE January 25, 2010: For nearly four years, this has been my most popular post, so I wanted to add a disclaimer right here. The intent of this post is not to rant against Ashley Furniture as a company or even the local expression of it here in Lafayette. The local Ashley Homestore owner is quite …
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More Scams? WorldwideShoppingNetwork.com & wsnrewards.com
I recently was notified of some websites that operate very much like our beloved bpshoppingspree.com. The new websites (and I'm sure they aren't the only ones out there) are: WorldwideShoppingNetwork.com & wsnrewards.com …
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We have a house!
I'm just posting this as a quick note to all of you who care... We have a new house! This morning at 9:30, we signed the final paperwork to close on our new house. There still are some things the builder is doing to put the finishing touches on it, but we have started moving things over! Please …