These are the notes for the lesson I taught in Sunday School this morning. The class is a group of 30-40 year olds. Most of us are married and have young kids. We are starting to ascend to leadership positions in the organizations where we work and volunteer. The resources for the lesson are
1. Andy [...]
Entries from November 2008
November 30, 2008
Louder Than Words
November 29, 2008
Stuff Larry Likes
Hillary Dunham tagged me in one of her latest posts to name five things that I love. I usually ignore these types of lists, but since I have nothing better to write about on Black Friday, here goes:
1. Johannes Gensfleisch zur Laden zum Gutenberg – Yes, the inventor of the printing press. Why? Because I [...]
November 25, 2008
I’m Especially Thankful For … “A Shark”
Amanda opened Joshua school folder and found this. We both laughed so hard we had tears. It’s nice to know that Josh is thankful for “a Shark” before anything else in the world – especially one with huge teeth (or dentures). I laughed about it all day long. Awesome!
I asked him about it this afternoon. [...]
November 22, 2008
The American Dream
I am attending the National Youth Workers Convention in Nashville, TN this weekend. At the general session last night three speakers were given 18 minutes to give a talk followed by 5 minutes of discussion with the people sitting around you. At this point everyone was given the opportunity to text questions to a number [...]
November 17, 2008
My Sister is an Artist
My older sister is an emerging artist in Huntsville, Alabama. Her name is Krista Colvin. I think her art is beautiful, encouraging, and redemptive. Two years ago she was inspired to start painting after one of the messages at the Catalyst Conference in ATL. She started to take her talent seriously and is now starting [...]
November 15, 2008
Tribes
I just finished reading Tribes by Seth Godin. He was one of the speakers at Catalyst 2008 in ATL. At the end of his talk he gave everyone in the Gwinnett Arena (over 12K people) an advanced copy of this book, which was a very nice gesture. I had never heard of the guy before [...]
November 1, 2008
What is Expected of Us as a Community of Faith?
(These are the notes for the discussion in the Couples For Christ Sunday School Class tomorrow)
Drinks:
What does a healthy faith community look like?
What does our class do right in terms of helping to create community?
Where do we fall short?
In my opinion there are two different areas we need to examine with regards to the expectations [...]
