Weekend Thoughts

Some interesting links and thoughts from this week…

• Thanks for the feedback on what you’d like to see more of this year from Live.Awake. Heather and I are planning on doing some combo posts on topics like “How to Fight with Your Spouse” and “Maintaining Intimacy” and others. I’m planning on doing a combination of short quickie posts and longer articles both serious and funny (or at least idiotic).

• My son, Owen, has discovered that he can push the dining room chair around and gain access to all kinds of exciting and deadly areas of the house. Like the knife drawer.
• I’ve added a “What Heather’s Reading” widget on the left sidebar. Now you can see things that either of us think are worth sharing from our feed reader.
• I’m reading “Comeback Churches” by Ed Stetzer and Mike Dodson. It’s a great book. Extremely practical help for any pastor or church leader (from a “comeback” church or not). Here’s a quote:

It’s ironic that most evangelical churches are filled with people who live very much like the world but look different from it. It should be exactly the opposite. We should look similar to those in our community but act differently. Study after study has shown that North American evangelicals engage in the same lifestyles and sins as the unchurched. Yet, their church preferences are quite different than the world. In other words, we look different from the world, yet live the same as the world. How ironic that many churches have chosen to live the opposite of the biblical commands.

• Seth Godin has written a really interesting article on lessons to be learned from the Music Industry (as it falls apart). The music industry has been a gradual casualty of the digital age and a case study in what NOT to do. The article begs the question: How can the church join the fray in the digital domain?
• I’m excited about “Cloverfield” coming out on the 18th. I’m a total sucker for “monster attacks New York/LA/Tokyo/Raleigh” movies. Here’s the trailer…

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