My friend Doug Jones over at Perigrinatio has got me thinking about how I evaluate myself and the efforts of others. In my soul searching I have discovered that I am way too opinionated about things that are really nothing more than preferences or another, different way. I have always been an evaluator. [...]
Archive for July, 2007
I just finished reading the book, Righteous: Dispatches from the Evangelical Youth Movement. Tic Long introduced me to the book a week or so ago. I hadn’t even heard about it until he mentioned it.
The author, Lauren Sandler, is a brilliant author. Sandler is the Life Editor for Salon and she has [...]
We had another fantastic week at Merge. Youth Ministries attended from all over the US and Canada — Alaska, Texas, California, Massachusetts, Toronto, etc. We even had a couple of mates with us from Australia! Here is a comment from one of the youth workers who attended…
Our time at MERGE has become an [...]
I spent last week with about 200 students and youth workers from around North America. It was fantastic! Mike Novelli, the assoctiate director at Sonlife oversees our Merge event. Actually, he not only oversees it he is really the creative genius behind it. There is a team that gives tremendously helpful [...]
Earlier today I had a Video SKYPE conversation with one of my good friends. He asked me as he regularly does, “Chris, how are you?” I responded as I regularly do by saying, “I am doing really well.” He didn’t accept my response this time. He said, “You are so full [...]
I had a conference call this morning with the senior leadership team and youth pastor (not on the senior lead. team) of a new but rapidly growing church here in the greater Chicago area. Very nice people. Great hearts and an obvious passion to see people live, love and lead in the way [...]
Whatever comes to your heart and mind when you think about God is the most important thing about you.
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