Category Archives: Society

interesting thoughts on Vision/Mission Statements

http://www.nakedpastor.com/archives/6055 Here is a wonderful post on Mission/Vision statements for the church. Are they just one more thing to distract us from our real mission? Do they give us purpose or are they something we really could do without? Posted with WordPress for BlackBerry.

Guardrails on a Mountain are nice…

Have you ever driven along a mountain road that had no guardrail?  It can be really scary.  And you ask yourself, “why are there no guardrails here?”  What were this people thinking, someone is going to drive off the side of this mountain and kill themselves… Isn’t that just exactly how life is?  We asContinue reading “Guardrails on a Mountain are nice…”

How to Love Unconditionally – wikiHow

How to Love Unconditionally – wikiHow. Interesting article on how to love unconditionally.  Wonder if any of the people who helped write it know or have an understanding of how God fills us and through that we are called to love, because to me it seemed this article was a very nice moralistic thing to do,Continue reading “How to Love Unconditionally – wikiHow”

Seth does it again: Good bye office

http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2010/06/goodbye-to-the-office.html Here is Seth’s blog on the office, and how it was necessary, and is now fast becoming an item of the past. Why is it we go somewhere to be with a bunch of people we do not collaborate with, when we can do what we do there somewhere else? And in ministry, weContinue reading “Seth does it again: Good bye office”

Interesting Poem from a 15 year old…

WRITTEN BY A 15 yr. old SCHOOL KID IN ARIZONA : New Pledge of Allegiance (TOTALLY AWESOME) ! Since the Pledge of Allegiance and The Lord’s Prayer are not allowed in most public schools anymore Because the word “God” is mentioned…. A kid in Arizona wrote the attached NEW School prayer : Now I sitContinue reading “Interesting Poem from a 15 year old…”

The home as the basis of faith!

Here is a quote from Rich Melheim’s blog I found very interesting: “For those of you heaven-bent on changing the dying mainline before it turns into a flatline… For those of you hoping to reform your church to look less like the last chapter of American Christianity and more like Deuteronomy 6 (when you lieContinue reading “The home as the basis of faith!”