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.
I don’t know what it is, but if you come across as cocky or sarcastic, it’s hard for me to stay with you. There were some good ideas in this talk, but only one page of notes. Her rubber band illustration at the end was really good. The 5 points at the end are the gold…
She was a hit a few years ago with her talk on shame, so you knew this was going to be a good one, too. This is the one of the day that I most wanted to go home and talk about with my wife.
There were a couple times in Adam Grant’s talk that I was confused or thought he was contradicting himself. I think that wasn’t the case, I was just having trouble following along. There are a few good bits in here though. I should mention that Trey McClain took great notes on all of these, and…
This was from an interview Bill Hybels did with Ed Catmull, boss of Disney Animation Studios and co-founder of Pixar. 
Two takeaways I got from this was that he saw the deeper cause and motive behind just making movies and a lot of money. … Sure, people need to know how to render lighting and keyframe the polygons, but they can learn that their own way, what he was concerned about was teaching the culture of creativity and flexibility and trust that will then turn out amazing movies.
Just like generosity yields more generosity in the recipient, we can give our lives easily because God has put so much life in us.
Bill Hybels opened the day and it was really good.
Ok gang, it’s another year of the WCAGLS! I’ll be taking notes and posting them over the next few days. I tried to draw it out over weeks one year and I never got it done. Another year I typed all my notes and posted them as soon as each speaker was off the stage….
We call something lame when it (or he or she) is doing something that really isn’t their thing. Like when your dad says “Wicked” or David Hasselhof sings heavy metal. Moreso than most other things, The Church should NOT be lame.
