Here in Lafayette, there is an association of ministers that is far more significant than some "ministerium" that many communities have where pastors of various churches get together to try to demonstrate some unity but never really get anything done. TEAMM is the Tippecanoe Evangelical Association …
Preaching in Crown Point
I just wanted to post something quickly to say that our time in Crown Point went really well on Sunday. Jen, the kids, and I all went up there Sunday morning and had a good time at the service. Afterward, Pastor Tony and his wife treated us to lunch at Portillo’s. It was a great meal and a …
Angels, Demons, and Scientific Method
Some time ago, I began a blogosphere conversation over with Rob at Casual Musings. The conversation has centered on the relationship of Science and Faith. His post is here, my response is in the comments there and also here. In his most recent comment, he posed some more questions to me. His main …
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A Whole New Mind
A Whole New Mind by Daniel Pink http://www.danpink.com. Daniel Pink has written a very interesting book about the coming shift from the Information Age to the Conceptual Age. He makes an interesting claim that the Information Age is already over and a new way of doing business has begun. The book …
Creating and Monetizing Communities
The title of this post comes from a video posted on Guy Kawasaki's blog about a Chicago company called Threadless that has users create designs for T-Shirts and then sells the finished product. I thought it was an interesting way to talk about there business, and I haven't finished watching the …
Improve Your Preaching
One of my favorite blog sites is http://presentationzen.com because it takes a critical look at the way people present information in a public setting. As a pastor, I've been presenting information to people for a while now, and I've been using powerpoint to be a visual aid in the process, but this …
Maintain Your Insanity
I got this as an email forward from my wife, and it really was good enough to post here. 20 Ways to Maintain a Healthy Level of Insanity (I'm thinking this could get one arrested, actually.) At Lunch Time, Sit In Your Parked Car With Sunglasses on and point a Hair Dryer At Passing Cars. See If …
What I believe about God
TRINITY I believe that God exists as a Triune being whose very nature is that of one essence sustaining three persons in perfect relationship---Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. His essence admits of no separation among the three but remains always One. Nevertheless, the three persons remain eternally …
Reflections on Our Second Monthly Service
We had a great service this morning. It was our second monthly service and here is a brief rundown of how it all went: Marketing We really ramped up our marketing efforts this time. Here's what we did: We sent out our "New Movers" letters this week. (We send a letter welcoming them to their new …
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Pastor Jeff's Blog
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Indiana Snowstorm
I thought some of you might be interested to see some pictures from our house of the Indiana snowstorm that hit us yesterday, so I'm posting them in a little gallery here http://jeffnjen.mikels.cc/~jeff/snowstorm_2007/. You should have seen the huge pile of snow that the snowplow left at the end of …
Switch To Sunday Morning
Two weeks ago, we switched our weekly gatherings to Sunday morning instead of Sunday night. There was one major motivating reason for doing so. As we move toward our public launch, we need to feel a strong sense of building momentum, and we just weren't able to do that with the low attendance we had …
Update: Our First Preview Service
Last Sunday was our first sneak preview of "day one at southside church." Our Sunday morning service is based on the mindset that worship is what people should be doing with their lives throughout the week. As a result, we aren't calling our Sunday gatherings a "worship service." Instead, we call …
Calvinism v. Arminianism
Warning... you might consider this post to be flamebait. You have been warned. Recently, Nathan a church planting friend of mine sent me a link to a very interesting site. The site is called Calvinist Gadfly and located there is a video post of a quartet at Pensacola Christian College singing the …
Science v. Religion
Rob over at Casual Musings wrote this article about whether Christians should be overly concerned with how we appear to the world. Specifically, he reflects on the statements of Paul in 1 Corinthians that the wisdom of God is foolishness to unbelievers. Since I posted a rather lengthy comment, …
My home server was hacked!
I'm posting this here to hopefully warn other people who are running mythtv on a home server. Here is what happened: NOTE: Unless you know Linux a little, this won't make sense. …