Now we can all look like Terrystorch.com!! Check out the Google Logo maker!
God is looking for Better Men...
"We are constantly on a stretch, if not a strain, to devise new methods, new plans, new organizations to advance the Church... God's plan is to make much of the man, far more of him than anything else. Men are God's method. The Church is looking for better methods: God is looking for better men." -E.M. Bounds
New Mp3 Tuesday : Blogger Mp3s
Have you always wondered what your fellow bloggers sounded like? Here are some bloggers with links to their talks/sermon mp3s. If you blog and have mp3s, let me know in the comments and I'll post them.
Ben Arment - Blog - Audio
Mark Batterson - Blog - Audio
Bob Franquiz - Blog - Audio
Scott Hodge - Blog - Audio
Bruce Johnson - Blog - Audio
Perry Noble - Blog - Audio
Brian Orme - Blog - Audio
Tally Wilgis - Blog - Audio
"Don't Xerox a Mega Church!"
Church Media guru, Anthony Coppedge took Ed Young's article, 5 Ways to Stay On Track with Media & Technology, and added his own insight. Check it out!
Sunday Stew
Psalm 16:11 - "You will show me the path of life; In Your Presence is fullness of joy; at your right hand are pleasures forevermore." (NKJV)
Free Mp3 Friday!
Mars Hill Church is ahead of the game with now offering bitTorrents. BitTorrents is a file delivery system that distributes the bandwidth costs of downloading big files. Now you can not only download podcasts but now you can download a whole book series at once. I tried it out yesterday and downloaded 37 sermons for the whole book of Ephesians. For more information on bitTorrents check here, to see all the bitTorrents they're offering check here.
In other exciting news, Terry Storch's podcasts made it to iTunes, to find his podcast just do a Podcast search in iTunes (4.9) for Storch and you should find it. Check it out.
Are you a Voice or an Echo?
I once heard a preacher say, "God wants us to be a voice not an echo" but Tracey Barnes make an intersting point, that we first must be an echo before we can be a voice. Check out the post here.
The Power of Church Multiplication
Check out Bill's post on church multiplication , he puts a out a great point about Lakewood's growth vs. what their multiplication could have been.
Okay, so $95 million, split by $50,000 start-up gifts, comes out to...
...1900 new churches that could have been started. 1900 more churches. Now, use your imagination a bit. Let's say, over the course of each of these church's history, they only grow to be about 100 people. That's not big. Not a megachurch. But do the math again. If each of these 1900 churches grew to 100 (not an outlandish number), then there would be...
...190,000 people who are now part of these churches."
Perry on Preparation
Sweet! Perry is one of my favorite communicators, so I emailed Perry a few weeks back and asked if he'd post on what his preparation & creative team planning looked like for the weekends and he posted today about it. Check it out here . (July 21st post. Permanent link doesn't work.)
Mac is Back
Mac is back from Disney with a great lesson he learned while there. Disney Lesson #1 small things are a BIG DEAL. Check out his interesting post .
Leadership Lessons from the Chocolate Factory
Check out Bob's post on "Lessons from the Chocolate Factory"
A Few Keys to Better Meetings
I have to say I HATE pointless meetings. I usually go to a couple minister's meetings in the community and have a few at our church each month. I'm considering cutting out the minister's meetings b/c they are pointless and I can't change them. They go on and on about nothing and that's time I can spend with my kids. Here's a few keys I've found to better meetings that I use at the church.
1. Set a time limit on the meeting.
Sarge's Law of Meetings is that a meeting will expand to the time you allow for it. People will be more likely to participate if they know the meeting will last only 1 hour. We've all sat through 3 hour meetings that could have been done in 1 hour. Respect people's time.
2. Set an agenda.
An agenda is the meeting's goals. If you don't have an agenda, you don't need to have a meeting. If the agenda is given out before the meeting, each member can be prepared and not caught off guard during the meeting.
3. Invite only those who need to be there.
I've been in meetings where the leaders were the only ones that needed to be there to make decisions but somehow Mr. Yahoo got invited. Mr. Yahoo questioned every decision and wanted every detail on decisions that were made last month. Keep Mr. Yahoo out.
4. Stay Focused during the meeting.
This is the benefit of telling the members that this meeting will only last an hour and half and I respect your time. I'm able to say we've got 30 minutes left to cover these last three items on our agenda.
Finger Scanning At Disney Parks Causes Concern
Finger Scanning At Disney Parks Causes Concern
I think I saw this on that "Mark of the Beast" movie I had to watch in youth growing up. Did anyone else have to watch that movie in youth? I'll have to ask Mac if he ever comes back from Disney.
Sunday Stew
Philippians 2:9 - "Because of that obedience, God lifted him (Jesus) high and honored him far beyond anyone or anything, EVER..." The Message
Joel Osteen on Larry King
For all the traffic I'm getting for "Joel Osteen on Larry King"(I'm ranked #2 on Yahoo.) Here's the transcript of the show & here's the apology letter . Thanks.
Free Mp3s Friday!
When I did my post on Top Mp3 Communicators, I forgot to include Dr. Larry Osborne from North Coast Church. He would have made the Honorable Mention list. Check out his sermons on mp3 for free!
Leadership Capacity
Bruce hits a homerun with his post on Leadership Capacity! Check it out! I've always taught this and I use the "Parable of Talents" passage. He gave to each as their ability to receive. What's your ability to receive?
Are you a Power Slacker?
Survey: Workers waste more time than employers expect, costing companies $759 billion a year. More than 10,000 respondents in the online survey admitted to wasting, on average, 2.09 hours per day.
Their top time-wasting activities, they said, were making personal use of the Internet (including email), socializing with colleagues, conducting personal business, spacing out, running errands, making phone calls, applying for jobs, planning personal events, and arriving late or leaving early.
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