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A Great Communicator -part 3
Posted on November 26th, 2009 10 commentsI sit in staff meetings often trying to figure out why announcements are not communicating effectively. There will be times when an event that we know meets the needs of our community and has been sufficiently announced will be quite modestly attended. It is not a rare occurrence when we hear after the fact, “Oh, I wish I had known we were doing that,” when I knew that person sat through several Sundays of announcements on that very event. Now, our church is a healthy and growing congregation with vital and growing ministries. People are not bored with out church, and our events are usually well attended.
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A Great Communicator -part 2
Posted on November 22nd, 2009 1 commentCommunication as being part of the very nature of God is not confined to exegesis of John 1. In Genesis 3:9 after Adam sins God asks him, “Where are you?” This is amazingly profound. God obviously knew the physical location of Adam. There was no question He couldn’t answer. The real question should actually be seen as ‘why are you suddenly distant?’ or ‘Where has our intimacy gone?’ Before this moment there were no walls. Man was naked and unashamed, hiding nothing. This side of eternity, God would never again walk with man directly, unobstructed. There was now separation. The rest of human history is the story of God closing the gap.
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A Great Communicator -part 1
Posted on November 18th, 2009 3 commentsAs Christians looking at the Bible for matters that are important to God and thus important for us, we tend to think of sin, righteousness, helping the poor and hurting, eschatology, and others. These are all very important biblical themes. But we tend to miss something huge that is both inherent and explicit in the Bible…
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The Free Information Age -part 2
Posted on October 15th, 2009 No commentsIn a previous post, I discussed the beginning of what I have dubbed the Free Information Age. This post was not meant as simply a parenthetical comment to the current zeitgeist, but as an introduction to a discussion of both the cultural waters that the Church must swim in, and a means of strategy for [...]
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The Free Information Age
Posted on October 8th, 2009 2 commentsWhat does seem to be noteworthy, is that I believed that there has been a major chapter change in this societal tome. The zeitgeist of the Information Age or IA (because I am sick of typing this out) was that Information could be a commodity itself. In fact, information itself could prove to be a more important commodity in many ways than even brick and steel…
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The Fall and Rise of Barbarism Part 7
Posted on September 16th, 2009 No commentsExactly what to expect for America itself in this future, is very difficult to say. Possibilities include a weakened America existing in its same form but having less world influence, to America’s basic destruction by both outside, and internal fighting, or America existing more as a pre-Civil War loose collection of states. There is no way to predict what the American future will look like at this time.
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The Fall and Rise of Barbarism Part 6
Posted on September 13th, 2009 No commentsWe have gone past a point in America where we can turn this clock back. Many experts believe that the American century is over, and the next century most certainly won’t be a repeat. I believe that the evidence backs this up, both historically and in terms of current events. This doesn’t mean we will fall into the sea. It does mean that things will be different. A look at history should shed light on what may be to come.
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The Fall and Rise of Barbarism Part 5
Posted on September 10th, 2009 No commentsThere is another cycle at work within America that we need to be aware of. Just as revivals in the early 1900′s brought about the Pharisee-ism of the early 20′s, which led to crime in the 30′s, we are in a part of our own cycle now. The Bush years seemed to be a revival without revival, and a triumph of moral legalism (at least as far as the mainstream media and far left would have us believe). The public responded with a “Yes we can believe in change.” But now crime is seriously on the rise and healthy society markers are on the decline.
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The Fall and Rise of Barbarism Part 4
Posted on September 7th, 2009 No commentsSo what is next? Are we on the cusp of a new cycle, or are we coming to the poem’s bridge? Maybe we are finally poised to break out of this iambic pentameter, and start a new ee cummings Dadaist phase.
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Google Voice, A Church Planter’s Best Friend
Posted on August 12th, 2009 1 commentI haven’t talked about this much yet, but Google has been creating a set of tools that can literally change the way churches do business. Yes, yes, I know that they have a great search engine (and are upping the ante with a new search engine process called Caffeine), but the exciting stuff is all out of Google Labs, their experimental wing.
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