Cultural Commentary and Spiritual Insights from a New Dad’s Perspective
When I’m looking for coffee, not just drinks bought at a coffee shop, I turn to the one and only Chick-fil-A. Bistro Dark with four hazelnut creamers. Hits the spot every time.
What about you? Where’s your favorite spot for ACTUAL coffee?
Note to Ross Middleton: Yes, you can spew your anti-coffee rhetoric here as long as your wife can share what her favorite coffee is.
Conversation you would have overheard this morning in my house:
Wife: “Mom and I made French Toast a while ago. Do you want some?”
Me: “No, no thanks.”
Wife: “Are you sure? We left everything out so it would be easy.”
Me: “OK, fine, I’ll have some.”
Wife: “Are you sure? You don’t have to have them if you want them…”
Me: (pounds head into countertop)
I love, love, LOVE my wife!!! 
Something’s been bugging me.
Stuck in my craw…
A question, a situation I’ve been pondering:
When did our sermons become so clean, so neat, so sterile, so easy to digest?
7 principles on this. 5 tips to do this. 3 C’s of that.
Have we replaced Jesus for the sake a well-formatted outline?
Have we replaced the cross for the sake of alliteration?
I’m all for a well-crafted sermon. I’m all for hard work and great communication.
But let’s not keep it safe. Let’s not keep it neat. Let’s do what it takes to display Christ, regardless of points and letters…
This is my first post from the Wordpress app for the iPhone. Trying to see what it looks like.
Looks like Live Blogging is back on the table, folks!!
Yesterday we announced a fairly radical shift in our communication strategy for our church: we’re no longer providing a weekly bulletin. Instead, we’re going to 100% electronic means of communication, led by our creative URL that redirects to the news and events page in our website:
There were a ton of factors that went into this decision, the two biggest of which are an effort to go green by not wasting paper every week, and saving green on printing and design costs.
We’re still providing important updates through our website, our weekly e-newsletter, during life groups, and from the pulpit on Sunday mornings. Our hope is that people will be more engaged and attentive to announcements, and that we’ll be more concise and deliberate in the activities we choose to announce.
We know this may ruffle some feathers, or “offend the mind” as one of my friends said, but we’re not content to do things the way they’ve always been done, just for the sake of doing them. We want to be the best stewards of our finances and time, and we believe this is a step in that direction.
What do you think? If you’re in our church, was this a good idea? If you’re outside of our church family, do you wish you church would do something like this, or are you just waiting for us to go down in flames?
Don’t worry, I’ll be back with more this week…
You might as well call this the Tim Stevens’ edition of The Hot Links, because my man has been on FIRE lately. Here’s a few highlights: An Apple guy is remaking Microsoft and what the church can learn about “cool,” Five stages of dealing with failure, and why pop culture is no longer popular. The last is a MUST-read for church and creative types. Now, on to the rest…
Our next youth outreach. We’ll reach thousands…
When’s the last time your church surprised you?
Oprah’s not orthodox?!? Who knew!
How do you find out if your Christian friends drink beer too?
Daniel Gilland (and his new blog) have a saying: you can never have too much Tim Keller. I tend to agree…
8 memorable movie misquotes. Have you been using them wrong?
I think you need a new strategy…
Scott Hodge links us to the list of 600 US Starbucks stores that are closing. Is your favorite on the list?
Anyone else love the word FREE? Here’s for your, designers…
Possibly the sexiest Hot Link ever…
Three leadership environments Perry Noble is committed to. What about you?
8 Leadership secrets from Nelson Mandela
Now this is what biblical fatherhood looks like…
A leadership look at hierarchies versus paths…
None last week, and late this morning, but a HUGE batch of…
If you’ve ever wanted a shirt with a gun that shoots butterflies, the wait is over…
How the creative stay creative…
Part 1 of Rosco P. Middleton’s recap of the Screenagers Conference. Be sure to read the whole series!
Perry Noble’s story of being Christian, not acting like a religious person…
Greatest. Church. Outreach. EVER.
Not a FAIL pic, but it should be…
Donny Fisher’s calling out America!
Super-awesome suspended dining!
Relevant Magazine does a Q&A with Barrack Obama…
What does it look like to turn the Titanic? Granger gives us a glimpse…
LosWhit got his wife something…special? for her birthday…
Pete Wilson was on a roll recently. Here’s him confessing, and here’s him hanging out with Poison. I wanna be Pete Wilson when I grow up…
A cool resource for free patterned backgrounds. Maybe CJ needs to let people know about this on Friday…
Speaking of CJ, how awesome is THIS?!!?
In case you’re wondering, you can always…
Thanks to Sam for the video…
