Andy G said they always end day one with a fiery preacher to bring stuff together from the day. That’s exactly what this guy did. It was really good. I especially like how he acted out the kid coming home from Jesus feeding the 5,000 with all of the leftovers for his family.
Andy G said they always end day one with a fiery preacher to bring stuff together from the day. That’s exactly what this guy did. It was really good. I especially like how he acted out the kid coming home from Jesus feeding the 5,000 with all of the leftovers for his family.
When you preach, do not teach interesting things. Do not preach great information to help people’s lives be better/happier/fuller/richer/stable or anything! PREACH as if you are speaking of LIFE and DEATH. Preach as if your message MUST be heard and lived out or they’ll die. We have had enough good speaches to improve our quality…
I was just reading Rick’s notes on John 6.1-13 and the recurring theme of God giving in abundance and there being leftovers comes up over and over again. When Jesus handed out the bread, there were leftovers, when He turned the water into wine, I HOPE there were leftovers!, when they caught all of the…
Here are my notes from the Willow Creek Association Global Leadership Summit. If you saw me tweeting last week with the tag #WCAGLS it was related to this. I took about 50 pages of notes, so I realized I needed to break them up some. These are my notes from the first session which was…
(Might have something to do with the fact that I’ve become an entrepreneur in the last year and a lot of what he said was really promising and exciting, vs. the usual song you hear when you are starting your own business that has a repeating chorus singing “you will fail, you will fail, you will fail.”) … I think they would have benefited a lot from just focusing on the next month rather than thinking they had to discover their lifelong vocation at 22. 
When you fail at something, like say, running a coffee filled backpack business, you learn something that nobody else knows.
Next up was Seth Godin. I was pretty exited about hearing him for 2 main reasons: I had read some of his blog posts (confession: I haven’t finished any of his books) I heard he had 142 slides for his 30 minute presentation A lot of the stuff he said struck more an individual and…
