A Fascinating Q&A with Frank of PostSecret.com
Put Your Secret on a Postcard…. Guy Kawasaki has a fascinating quick Q&A with Frank of the confessional website PostSecret. What started as a small “art project” developed into a phenomenon (and a book) and I think, as well, a glimpse into culture … or at least our hidden secrets.
Catalyst ‘Reverb’ 2007 in Review
I’m still processing everything I heard and saw at Catalyst 2007 … but Church Marketing Sucks has a great post linking to notes from the main sessions and more.
Here are a couple of quick notes, or just my thoughts a week or so later:
- Patrick Lencioni’s Three Signs of Job Misery — Anonymity, Irrelevance and Immeasurement — was especially relevant to me … and I think it has great relevance for church volunteers and how to make them see how vital they are to your church’s ministry. Plus, he’s absolutely hilarious.
- Andy Stanley’s talk about how systems create behaviors was worth the entire conference. We’re still talking about it.
- Craig Groeschel’s session on Practical Atheism personally impacted me the most. It is so easy to talk the talk and not walk the walk. I needed this one … and if you feel crusted over in ministry like I have, you should buy the CD, listen to it and then repent as I did.
- Francis Chan and Erwin McManus speak the language and demonstrate the passion of the next generation of young leaders. Although I enjoyed them both, what they had to say resonated most deeply with the two guys in our groups who are both in their 20’s.
- Social justice seemed to be an underlying theme of most of the speakers and throughout the conference.
- Steve Fee (MySpace and Official Site) and the rest of the worship leaders and band were, quite frankly, uh … awesome. At one point during a set, they were having so much fun in worship and so into it that I think the roof rattled. A truly incredible worship experience.
- And I thoroughly enjoyed bumping into a number of old friends from Midwestern and other places of service. That was an unexpected and pleasant surprise!
ProBlogger Darren Rowse Interviewed by Tim Challies
One of the biggest and most read blogs on the blogsophere is Darren Rowse’s ProBlogger.net. I learned quite a bit from reading ProBlogger in the early days of starting this blog. (In fact, he was one of the first people I interviewed in my Blogging 101 for Pastors series.)
And he continues to be a huge influence for more and more fledgling bloggers as well as experienced ones.
Anyway, one of the biggest and most influential Christian Bloggers, Tim Challies, just interviewed Darren, who also happens to be a Christian minister in Australia.
Free Church Communications Forms Bundle from Granger’s WiredChurches.com
For her session at MinistryCOM, Kem Meyer offered a free coupon to download their awesome church communications bundle to attendees. I’ve wanted this package for a long time and although the $16 price tag is the deal of a lifetime, I hadn’t purchased it.
So I emailed her and Jami Ruth, their communications manager, and they’ve graciously offered a coupon code for CCP readers.
Click this link to get your free church communications forms bundle
To get the free download, enter this coupon code: CHURCHCOMMPRO
[Be sure to enter this code into the Coupon Code NOT the Gift Certificate box.]
The coupon is only valid on the Communications Bundle and expires 12/31/07.
Chrisitanity’s Image Problem: Time Magazine Article
Does Christianity Have An Image Problem?… David Kinnaman and Gabe Lyons were at Catalyst talking about their new book UnChristian. Time Magazine has a short article on it.
6 Free Worship Backgrounds and Loops from Worship House Media
Worship House Media had a cool booth at the Catalyst Conference, which I just returned from, and Kent McKeaigg sent me an email offering 6 free motion loops to CCP readers.
Follow that link and add the loops to your cart for $0.
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