Archive for Archive for February, 2009
Malcolm Gladwell: What We Can Learn From Spaghetti Sauce
The author of “The Tipping Point”, “Blink” and most recently “The Outliers”.
Every church has a unique personality with unique strengths and opportunities. Part of an individual churches Public Relations plan should involve leveraging that uniqueness in ways that do not compromise the gospel in order to get and keep our communities attention.
What We Can Learn [...]
Seth Godin at TED
TED is a conference where the worlds leading thinkers and doers are invited to give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes. This one is called “Sliced Bread And Other Marketing Delights”. There are some applications for the church and reaching our communities.
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Leadership Friction Principle
This is from the free ebook - “Leadership Learnings From Bloggers”. This section was written by Craig Groeschel of LifeChurch.tv
LEADERSHIP FRICTION PRINCIPLEThere is something that hit me while reading Matthew 26:31-74. This is the infamous passage that ends with Peter’s denial of Christ. This is a dark moment in a great leader’s life, but I [...]
Free E-book On Leadership
Here is a free E-book from Exponential Network - over 275 pages of leadership material gleaned from various blogs. Some good stuff in it.
Leadership Learnings From Bloggers
ChangeThis.com
I came across the changethis.com website some time ago and found an unbelievable amount of business and leadership related material offered for free. Each month there are new “manifestos” on a variety of subjects available for reading or downloading.
Here is the link to one of the current months manifestoes “Story Selling” written by Tom [...]
Church Growth For Those Who Hate It
“We may not soon have bigger crowds around us–and in fact they may for a while even get smaller–but we will soon have bigger Christians for sure. This is what I call ‘Church growth for those who hate it.’ And bigger crowds are sure to follow, for the simple reason that human beings desperately need [...]
John Piper On Prayer
But the hard truth is that most Christians don’t pray very much. They pray at meals—unless they’re still stuck in the adolescent stage of calling good habits legalism. They whisper prayers before tough meetings. They say something brief as they crawl into bed. But very few set aside set times to pray alone—and fewer still [...]
Cancellation As PR
I was speaking with a friend yesterday who is in the process of planting a church in an unchurched town. As part of their outreach into the community they are sponsoring a showing of the movie “Fireproof” and then following up with a series of lessons on “The Love Dare” to be held at a [...]
Fire In My Bones - J. Lee Grady
This article by J. Lee Grady from Charisma Magazine is a message that has got to be heard. It comes from http://charismamag.com/index.php/newsletters/fire-in-my-bones
Staying Pure in a Fornication Nation
J. Lee Grady Newsletters - Fire In My Bones
You don’t have to compromise with our sex-saturated culture. By God’s grace you can stay in the sexual safety [...]
How To Not Choke
I’ve been reading “Reality Check” by Guy Kawasaki over the past couple of weeks, at 461 pages it is not a one evening read. While he deals extensively with business startups the book contains a lot of good material that crosses over into the church/nonprofit sectors.
This morning I was reading chapter 80 (94 chapters in [...]
