Believing vs. Seeing

A friend sent this to me yesterday. Amazing. Try it. If your eyes follow the movement of the rotating pink dot, you will only see one color, pink. However if you stare at the black”+” in the center, the moving…

Building vs. Planting, Part 3

We’re examining reasons that churches choose NOT to plant new churches… Selfish reasons… Elaboration on this particular point could go on and on and cross over into the other reasons that churches choose not to plant, so I’m going to…

Foreshadowing…

If you read my “Lessons from high school English” below, you know how much I loved English. It was there that I learned about foreshadowing. Foreshadowing is a story element that hints at something later in the story. Many times,…

Lessons from high school English…

I had incredible high school English teachers. There was a point in my life that I distinctly remember enjoying the ability to diagram sentences. To turn a perfectly ordinary linear sequence of words and thoughts on a page into what…

Trying Treo Alarm…

For those of you Treo users out there… I’m assuming by now that you use TreoAlarm. I mean, why in the world would anyone own a Treo and NOT use it?! It would be like buying a Mercedes with no…

Building vs. Planting, Part 2

In this entry, I’d like to offer up some thoughts about why churches choose NOT to plant. And away we go… Why Churches Choose Not to Plant: A lack of understanding of the nature of the Church Ignorance of planting…

Read My Blog Shirt

I went and did it. I’ve designed a cool shirt for all you bloggers out there! Pass the word. It’s $10. Here’s what it looks like… If you want to place an order, click the order below. Make sure you…

Dilbert: Blogging about God

I’ve been a fan of Scott Adams for a long time. He’s the creator of Dilbert. Not only does he draw one of the funniest comic strips ever, but he also finds time (daily) to blog. On top of that,…

What’s Your Political Persuasion?

There’s no surprises here for me, but if you’ll stop by this site, you can take a very brief quiz that purports to be able to classify your political leaning. I’d be interested in knowing what you all are. Post…