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Ran across this quote on Seth Godin’s site:
Tim Cook at Apple: “This is the most focused company I know of, am aware of, or have any knowledge of… We say no to good ideas every day.” Cook then pointed out to analysts that every single product the company makes would fit on the single [...]

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Last month we looked at Mark 10. This month, Mark 11:1-26.
These were some of the thoughts shared this morning…
The same people that sang praises and Hosannas would sing Crucify in 6 days. Easy to blame fickleness on culture but these people weren’t just ‘culture.’ They were ‘believers’ of a sort, [...]

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A new read of mine is Perry Noble’s blog. He’s the lead pastor at a church called New Life in Carolina. HUGE mega church but he’s always an entertaining read. This morning he was a slap upside the head – doh! kinda read.
Here’s the line from his morning post that [...]

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30 days is a deceiving amount of time. Not enough or too long?

The Past 30
We celebrated 6 new believers. Had 4 new families join. Went Down Under with VBS. We revamped our student ministry. We invaded McCarter Elementary with over 1,000 school supplies. We made close to 100 nap [...]

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Last night our house was invaded by twice as many people as we expected for our Turbo Group.  Basically, it’s a room full of people who are passionate about God and people and want to be better at leading our Life Groups.  We talked about the need for community, the obstacles of having it, the [...]

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By now you’ve heard that the Philadelphia Eagles have signed Michael Vick. Yes, that Michael Vick. And the PR coming out of the NFL, locker rooms, management is a unified — “Everybody deserves a second chance. I’m glad he got one.” This comes on the same week that Dante Stallworth was [...]

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Went to Leadership Summit lunch today. It was a preview of this year’s Leadership Summit.
Highlights of the day for me…
Riding with David Manner.
David Manner is our interim Worship Pastor. He’s also a long-time acquaintance that is fast becoming a deep friend. Great think time.

Reconnecting with Merl Mees
Merl was pastor at [...]

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I order some software from Apple and they shipped it with DHL. It’s hard for me to say anything negative about Apple in general because they are so awesome. But this is one of those times.
I’ve been tracking the package via DHL’s online tracking system. It hit Topeka today and I was [...]

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I closed the office yesterday.  Martin Luther King, Jr.’s birthday is worthy of the office being closed.  Especially for a church.
But normally Mondays aren’t a great day for pastors.  Drained from Sunday, dealing with all the ‘what ifs’ and realizing that you get to start it all over again this week.
I remember Mondays being particular [...]

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I wonder what would happen in a church if for 365 days her key leaders did nothing but did life with 3 or 4 others?  They would worship together, they would get together once a week to eat and ask each other hard, vulnerable, raw questions, and they had 1 ministry they poured into?  Ministry [...]

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