Archive for August, 2007
If you would have told me that I would be…..
If you would have told me that I would end up going to seminary 5 years ago I would have said that you are crazy. If you would have told me 5 years ago that I would enjoy long Saturday morning runs while I listened podcasts of R. C. Sproul & New Life Live! on [...]
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So, you found a great church. It has it all. It has the right music, ministries, message, and mission. The only problem is that it is 30 – 45 minutes away, although the drive is not too bad on a Sunday morning. What about the midweek service? You run up against rush hour traffic during [...]
Full StoryReflections From Class
I finished my first day of seminary classes yesterday. The first thing that impressed me was the professors. The professor in my first class informed us that he gets up and drives to 3 1/2 hours to Nashville from Lexington, KY to teach a 3 hour class then turns around and heads home. I was [...]
Full Story10 years ago.
10 years ago I finished my undergrad degree from Indiana University. I figured that would be the end of my education. Well, today I started taking classes at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary at the Nashville Extension Center. This is either God’s plan for me or I have lost my mind.
I have been to 2 [...]
Leadership Summit Wrap-Up
The Leadership Summit finished up yesterday. My pastor, Rick White, has been promoting it, saying how great it is for quite some time. It lived up to his billing. The unique combination of all the speakers amazed me. They had widely different areas or expertise and personalities but all of their talks seemed to fit together [...]
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This is a song I heard performed at the Leadership Summit by Kirk Franklin and a great group of singers. It is about healing and imagining yourself free from baggage. So listen to it and imagine yourself free. Imagine people around you free.
Try to imagine that person that is hurting you right now free. What [...]
Leadership Summit Day 2
Day 2’s lineup was great again.
Session 1 featured Michael Porter who is a Harvard Strategy Professor. He was described as the leading expert in strategic management. Today he focused on community projects that a Church or organization might take on. His emphasis was that we need to consider effectiveness when we do charity work. He [...]
Leadership Summit Day 1
This is my first Leadership Summit. Day 1 featured a great group of speakers.
Session 1 featured Bill Hybels who gave a talk titled Vision to Die For. His main point was that there must be widespread ownership of any vision for it to succeed. He contrasted the Sinai Approach with the Team Approach. The Sinai [...]
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