Facebook – a sociologist’s dream come true.
If you are not on it yet, you are really missing out.
Value?
Just this past week a friend of mine connected with her son at a critical time in his life on Facebook. She tells me that he would have never opened up face to face or on the phone [...]
Archive for the ‘Strategy’ Category
10 Mar
17 Feb
Trickle Up?
Trickle-Up just may be the new Trickle-Down.
“Trickle-down economics” refer to the policy of providing tax cuts or other benefits to businesses and rich individuals, in the belief that this will indirectly benefit the broad population. The term has been attributed to humorist Will Rogers, who said during the Great Depression that “money was all appropriated [...]
1 Feb
Are We Now Beginning to Reap What We Have Sown?
AW Tozer wrote:
A generation of Christians reared among push buttons and automatic machines is impatient of slower and less direct methods of reaching their goals. We have been trying to apply machine-age methods to our relations with God. We read our chapter, have our short devotions, and rush away, hoping to make up for our [...]
23 Dec
Does God Need You?
Why do you serve God?
No, really.
Let me ask this question in a more direct way – why do you serve God in and through your local church or local ministry?
I’ll tell you why I serve. It’s not the primary reason I serve – but it’s in my top 3. In fact, there are [...]
15 Dec
R.O.I. and Kingdom Efficiency
Return on Investment = A performance measure used to evaluate the efficiency of an investment or to compare the efficiency of a number of different investments.
Spending much of my secular employment in the finance arena, the term Return on Investment is foundational to effective and successful decision making.
Should it be applied to our Kingdom Advancement [...]
2 Dec
2009 Trends
I’ve got 15 minutes till my marathon “2009 Planning Meeting” commences…ugh. Love planning, hate meetings. Will someone please figure out a way to make these things tolerable?
To effectively plan for tomorrow, we must understand people. To understand people, we must understand and forecast trends. It’s the difference between riding the front crest of the wave, [...]
1 Dec
Put That Thing AWAAAAY!!!!!!
(Disclaimer – heavy justification to follow…)
My cell phone of choice is my central command…my virtual Swiss Army Knife. It is not only my communications hub, It is my knowledge base – the very nerve center of all that I do.
But at times it gets me in trouble!
Case in point, church service yesterday. With the pastor [...]
18 Nov
My Church is Bigger Than Yours Jesus….
He gets it.
The following account is powerful.
Pastor Francis Chan challenged a room full of some of the most influential church leaders with a message that every lover of the local church should hear.
This past weekend I was rocked by something that Francis Chan said. He told a room of 1000 pastors and church leaders that [...]
11 Nov
My Prayers Suck….
Rote lazy prayers….
Hate them!
Guilty myself of offering up these half-hearted memorized, routine, babble to THE Creator of all things.
Words like “I praise you for who you are”?
What????
I can just sense God thinking “Who DOOOOOO you think I am? What are you praising me for???
Luke warm prayers at best.
So because you are not one thing or [...]
5 Nov
The One Thing…
Spiritual growth. How do I achieve this?
We all want it, right?
So what is the one thing, the one practice that will accelerate growth more than any other discipline?
In Follow Me, the second book out of the Willow Creek Association and follow-up to their incredibly insightful REVEAL research confirmed that a Christ follower who consistently stated [...]
31 Oct
MY church vs. the CHURCH
I gotta tell you – I am really struggling with “church”. And this struggle originates from the inside, out.
My heart beats for the local church. Thank you mom and dad for instilling into the core of who I am a love to serve the local church. And for this season of my life, I get [...]
21 Oct
My Heart…
The world tells me to follow my heart, but if I’m not leading it, then someone or something else will.
The Bible reminded me this morning that “the heart is more deceitful than all else” (Jeremiah 17:9), and it will always pursue that which feels right at the moment.
I must choose to lead my heart toward [...]
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