April 2009 Blog Posts (11)

Critical Swine Flu Prevention Tip! (Humorous)

One of our members sent me this great Swine Flu prevention tip.

Don't Do This!

Added by James Nored on April 29, 2009 at 4:30pm — No Comments

Community is Hard

But Life is Harder

For some time now Chris and I have been in conversations regarding the difficulty of cultivating authentic community - where people are actually invested in one another's lives and attempting to live beyond merely transactional relationships. This is a fundamental part of our vision for church planting.

And yet we've sat around the table with other church planter friends listening to their stories of community…

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Added by Bret Wells on April 29, 2009 at 12:29pm — 3 Comments

Shifting the church from program-driven to people-driven

A book that I recommend for church leaders to go through together is Missional Renaissance: Changing the Scorecard for the Church by Reggie McNeal. Reggie McNeal is a part of Leadership Network and is a nationally known missional leader. I also have an affection for him as one of my teachers in the D.Min. program at Fuller Theological Seminary.

I owe a lot of my ideas for the practical outworkings of missional theology to Reggie. (He also is a… Continue

Added by James Nored on April 23, 2009 at 2:43pm — 5 Comments

English as a Second Language

Does anyone have any experience with an ESL course at your church?

What material did you use? How did you set it up?

I have experience with Let's Start Talking and the Friendspeak program but we are looking at something with a different teacher/student ratio at this point. Maybe you have some thoughts on that.

I have asked some people but no one has gotten back with me so I thought maybe someone out here might be able to help.

Thanks.

Darin

Added by Darin Hamm on April 18, 2009 at 8:40pm — 7 Comments

Susan Boyle inspires the world on "Britain's Got Talent"

In case you somehow missed it, here is a link to one of the most inspiring vidoes in a long time.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9lp0IWv8QZY (I would embed this, but unfortunately, the embedding was requested to be disabled by someone.)

This video shows, Susan Boyle, an unemployed 47 year old cat owner who has never been kissed, on the show, "Britian's Got Talent"--the precursor show to American Idol. No one expected anything from this… Continue

Added by James Nored on April 17, 2009 at 10:11am — 4 Comments

Church Blog Theory Seminar

Church Blog Theory Seminar

How do we share the message of Christ in the 21st century?

Please join us for a free seminar discussing how to use faith based blogging, integrated with other social media, as a strategy to deploy the truth online and develop relationships aimed at sharing Jesus with our community.

Date: Saturday, April 25th, 2009

Location: Harding… Continue

Added by Ryan Parsons on April 10, 2009 at 8:51pm — 1 Comment

"The End of Christian America" by Newsweek

This week Newsweek came out with a front page article entitled "The End of Christian America."

This article was prompted by the recent religious survey of Americans that we recently reported on. This survey showed that the percentage of Americans that identified themselves as having no religion has doubled in the last decade to 15% of the US population. This is but one of many signs pointing to the… Continue

Added by James Nored on April 8, 2009 at 5:24pm — 5 Comments

What role do events play in missional outreach?

On Sunday, we had an "Easter Eggstravaganza." We invited the community to join us for an Easter egg hunt, a meal, a petting zoo, and a bounce gym. We had a great turnout, with numerous people from the community. I met guests that our members had invited, and one woman from the McKinney paper advertisement.

Becki and I were able to engage guests in conversationa and invite them out to Easter and our new sermon series: "The Office: Spirituality at Work." We had our newly printed invite… Continue

Added by James Nored on April 7, 2009 at 4:49pm — 1 Comment

ESPN chat with Brad Ziegler, Oakland A's pitcher/closer

Chat with Oakland A's Brad Ziegler

[The following is on ESPN.com The website is http://proxy.espn.go.com/chat/chatESPN?event_id=25774

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Welcome to The Show! On Friday, we'll have a special guest coming to SportsNation when Oakland A's closer Brad Ziegler stops by to chat.

Ziegler stormed on to the MLB scene last year, when he set the record for most scoreless innings… Continue

Added by Greg Ziegler on April 3, 2009 at 11:13am — 1 Comment

Social Networking, Facebook & the Missional Outreach Network Discussed in Christian Chronicle

As I shared with you last week, Bobby Ross has written a column on social networking in his column in the Christian Chronicle. The article is now posted online (click here). Check it out!

Bobby quotes me and references the Missional Outreach Network. Of course, this site is not about me, but about all of you and how God is moving amongst us to help us work… Continue

Added by James Nored on April 1, 2009 at 2:58pm — 1 Comment

Internet Evangelism Month

Dear Fellow Bloggers,

Today April 1st. 2009, marks the beginning of Internet Evangelism Month.

Our Purpose: To promote all forms of internet outreach but especially faith-based blogging as a strategy to improve the church’s presence online and to promote individual personal evangelism.

Our Goals:

1. Increase awareness of internet based… Continue

Added by Ryan Parsons on April 1, 2009 at 12:18am — No Comments

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