It was cool to have my first Google Chat with Creative Pastor David Russell from Alabama. Our voices cut in and out a little but we were using it during the peak time. Wanna Chat? Add me to your Gmail Friends list leadership.blog@gmail.com. This can open all kinds of avenues for us leaders.
The Leadership Blog Mag!!!
You seen it here first! After the wild popularity of the Leadership Blog, you knew a mag was coming! Printed here.
Youth Pastor Needed!
65 Girls At Area School Pregnant
"There are 490 female students at Timken High School, and 65 are pregnant, according to a recent report in the Canton Repository.
The article reported that some would say that movies, TV, videogames, lazy parents and lax discipline may all be to blame."
Do sex offenders live near your church or home?
Check out mapsexoffenders.com. This free tool is basically Google Maps with Registered Sex Offenders marked in location to your home or church.
Say What???
Pat Robertson suggests assasination on '700 Club'
"Religious broadcaster Pat Robertson suggested on-air that American operatives assassinate Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez to stop his country from becoming “a launching pad for communist infiltration and Muslim extremism.”
“We have the ability to take him out, and I think the time has come that we exercise that ability,” Robertson said Monday on the Christian Broadcast Network's “The 700 Club.”
“We don't need another $200 billion war to get rid of one, you know, strong-arm dictator,” he continued. “It's a whole lot easier to have some of the covert operatives do the job and then get it over with.”
Wisdom For Those Who Live In Glass Houses
I've always heard that pastors and leaders live in glass houses. So pastors and leaders never forget this!
10 signs you are addicted to blogging...
I knew I had a problem. Here's Karen's 10 signs you're addicted to blogging.
1. You consider trading in your desktop for a laptop for more frequent and convenient posting.
2. You fall asleep at work because you are up all night blogging.....again.
3. Your first thought when anything happens is, "Oh, I can't wait to write about that in my blog."
4. Your mood for the day is determined by how many comments you received on your last post.
5. You actually pre-post so you will NEVER have to worry about not having a new entry.
6. You consider cancelling your vacation when you find out you won't have an internet connection and you don't yet have the ability to pre-post.
7. Your friends and family despise the word "blog"
8. You have blog "friends" who are people you've actually never met.
9. You start signing everything with your blog address instead of your name.
10. You've thought about legally changing your name to your blog address.
Sunday Stew: Daddy's Day
This week I took my two girls out for a date. We called it "Daddy Day". I first took my two young girls to the hair salon to get their haircut. From there, we went to buy them both a pair of new shoes to begin their school year. The whole time I was just loving them and blessing them. They then wanted lunch and I let them decide and they wanted "Taco Bell". So we then went to Taco Bell and I got them both a "Kid's Meal". We were enjoying our time and lunch together. Then after their lunch was about over I gave them their "Cinnamon Twists" from their Kid's Meal. They loved them, they loved them so much, that when Dad asked for some, their relpy was "Dad were not sharing our Cinnamon Twist! Get your own!"
I laughed then thought to my self, "How many times do we do that to our Heavenly Daddy?" It's Daddy's Day and he's blessed us all week and provided. Then comes our time to bless him and give our best, we don't. This "Daddy's Day", give God your best and remember to share your Cinnamon Twist!
Some Things are Certain
My bloggin' buddy Ben has a great post titled, "Some Things are Certain". Check it out!
The Seacoast Story
Check out this interesting post by Geoff Surratt on how Seacoast became an "Accidental Multi-Site". God's ways are higher than ours!
Innovative Church Tip #47: Hire Worshippers
Worshipers for hire boost Sunday excitement
"Praise God!" he shouts, lifting his hands and prompting others to chime in with "amen" and "glory." His infectious enthusiasm is just what the pastor ordered. Kendall isn't a Christian, but he and hundreds of other people across the U.S. are getting paid as much as $12 an hour by temp placement agencies to pretend to be exuberant worshipers. "Praise decoy work is great," says one worshiper for hire who has lent his skills to more than 50 church services. He doesn't mind sitting through services, and considers the praise movements "good stretching exercise, like Tai Chi." In the past five years, the worshiper-for-hire industry has flourished as pastors try to goose the energy level in dwindling churches. Temp agencies train decoys to clap, laugh and make affirmative noises during the sermon. Most prized is the ability to appear authentically engaged, but not overly so." =)
Creative Team Planning
I'm doing a series on "The Heart of Worship" at church. This week we're on the "What Worship Isn't". So far we have...
1. "Worship isn't about you!"
2. "Worship isn't about tradition or empty rituals."
3. "Worship isn't about escaping reality."
Any other thoughts, ideas, resources, or a title on what "Worship Isn't", that you would like to add to our creative team planning?
Question of the Week
British churches are divided over whether to allow filming of The Da Vinci Code in their churches, "Would you allow "The Da Vinci Code" movie to be filmed at your church?"
Blogger for Word
Now you can use Blogger right within Microsoft® Word
-Publish to your blog
-Save drafts
-Edit posts
Was the Preacher Lying?
Money Can Buy Happiness
"Psychology has shown that richer people generally rank the overall quality of their lives more favorably than poorer people do. At the same time, their actual happiness seems to be motivated less by their ability to buy more than by being able to keep up with those with comparable resources in their own age group (five years older or younger), according to a new study.
"Our findings point to the possibility that, rather than promoting overall happiness, continued income growth could promote an ongoing consumption race where individuals have to consume more and more, just to maintain a constant level of happiness," writes Glenn Firebaugh of Pennsylvania State University."
All Pastors and Leaders already knew This
Half of All Americans Mentally Ill
"A new study by Harvard University and the National Institute of Mental Health claims that 46 percent of all Americans will, at some point in their lives, develop a mental disorder. "
Two Part Security Name Tags??
Does anyone know where I can find "Two Part Security Name tags" for babies for our nursery? I've looked everywhere online. Thanks.
Sunday Stew
God will never ask you to do something, He doesn't think you can do. Our church has a big 60" cut Dixon zero-turn mower, that my eight year old son would just love to be able to get on and ride around on. But I never allow him or ask him to cut the grass, why b/c he can't handle it, he would get hurt and hurt others.
Even though he can't cut the grass yet (that is why we had kids ain't it), I do ask him to clean his room, make his bed, and pick up his dirty clothes. I ask him to do things, I know he can handle. If God is asking you to step out or go to that next level, it's because he thinks that you can handle it and you're ready for it. He will never put more on you than you can bear. He won't ask you to do the impossible. Always remember that God will never ask you to do something, that He doesn't think you can do!
1 Question IQ Test
THE ONE-QUESTION IQ TEST
Here's a one question IQ Test to help you decide how you should spend the rest of your day...... There is a mute who wants to buy a toothbrush. By imitating the action of brushing one's teeth, he successfully expresses himself to the shopkeeper and the purchase is done. Now if there is a blind man who wishes to buy a pair of sunglasses, how should he express himself?
He opens his mouth and says. "I would like to buy a pair of sunglasses" If you got this wrong - please pack up your things, turn off your Computer and call it a day.
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