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Brilliant Blogs and Links

July 21, 2009 in Blogging, Creativity, Leadership with 3 Comments

Some incredible stuff from the interwebs that I wanted to share with you:

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Video Sermons

June 18, 2009 in GOD, Life Change, Technology with 1 Comment

This past Sunday at The Connection Church we tried something new. We showed a video from the worldwide One Prayer series to our congregation. 35 minutes of Pastor Craig Groeschel on video.

We believe that feedback is the breakfast of champions. So, I’ve been polling people all week on what they thought of watching a sermon on video during a church service. For the most part, people said “it was awesome but I wish he was there.”

My personal opinion is that if its engaging and people are being connected with God then go for it, no matter what the medium is. I don’t watch the news at night and think “man I wish the news reporter was here in the living room telling me about this story.” I’ve been attending church online at Central Christian in Las Vegas every week for several months now and I love it.

What are your thoughts? Do you attend a video venue church or have you ever sat through a sermon on video as a part of a church worship service? Was it engaging? Were lives changed?

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Sunday Mind Dump

June 14, 2009 in Uncategorized with Comments Off

  • Services this morning seemed long to me. I think it was because I walked around a lot trying to take it all in since its my second to last Sunday. I am having a HARD time accepting what life will be like without TCC every Sunday!
  • Had a Creative Team meeting today to begin solidifying the TCC Creative Machine that will take and run with many of my duties after I am gone.
  • The band was absolutely incredible today. SPOT. ON. Awesome!
  • Cole led us in worship for two songs out of the set and I loved it. The guy is truly a whatever it takes team player. I admire him in so many ways.
  • Crud. I’m getting mushy already.
  • Took a 24 hour trip to Dallas Friday and Saturday all by myself. The all by myself part stunk but the trip was awesome.
  • In Dallas I got to:
    • Go to the Rangers VS. Dodgers game. $200 tickets behind home plate FOR FREE. Ask me sometime how. I have a new system. :)
    • Attend a church planter training
    • Hang with some awesome church planters
    • Meet two Russian church plant pastors. These guys were crazy, scary smart. Like Kristi West smart.
    • Hear my Church Plant Coach, Sam Douglass speak. The guy just inspires the heck out of me and rips apart my strategy only to build it up even better each time I’m with him. I can’t believe I get to have him as a coach.
    • Hear Jeremy White, lead pastor of Stonewater Church in Granbury, TX speak. This guy is the real deal. He cares about one thing: reaching people with the life-changing message of Jesus Christ and equipping them to become committed followers of Him, so that they can GO and reach and equip more people for Jesus Christ.
    • Eat a lot
  • Whoa, that’s the first time I’ve had sub-bullets in a mind dump. I am getting all technical and organized. :)
  • Felt soooooo good to hold my boy after being away from him for a full week. In July, I won’t see him or Amber for almost three weeks. I think I’ll just lock myself in a room with happy flowers and bunnies while they are gone so that I don’t feel the pain…
  • Got a lot of good feedback from people today about watching Pastor Craig Groeschel’s “One Prayer: God is Love” message via video. I loved it!
  • I can’t believe how many kids got so sun-burned at Beach Camp. Put sunscreen on once every hour…knuckle heads. I know Pastor Nic told you over and over and over…
  • Just looked over at my wife. Wow. I cannot believe how beautiful she is. And she married me? My gosh…I am so out of my league…
  • Its new iPhone week. Yeah!
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Saturday Night Shots

June 6, 2009 in Confessional, GOD, Revolution Church with Comments Off

Saturdays are always CRAZY. Today was especially INSANE:

  • PUMPED that my in-laws came in early this morning to help us with getting the house ready to sale. We got a TON done.
  • PUMPED about our new message series, One Prayer, that starts tomorrow. Can’t wait to see what God does over the next four weeks at TCC!
  • PUMPED about everything God is already doing to ramp things up for the new church we’ll be launching in Schertz. If you haven’t checked out the site yet, please do. Also, be sure to join our prayer team.
  • NOT PUMPED that I worked so long in the heat today that I actually kind of woke up with my face on the concrete. Guess I got dizzy or something. Must be getting old. I used to frame houses all day long in 110 degree heat in West Texas with no problems…
  • NOT PUMPED that my boy will be going to stay with G-ma and The Boss (My parents) all week…
  • By the Way I’m also PUMPED about that even though I’m NOT PUMPED about it. Is that possible?
  • NOT PUMPED about all the stuff I gotta do at the house…uuuugggghhhhh…
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