Saturday reflection: online. character.
This weekend in Michigan, a bunch of high school students who are leaders at their churches are spending time talking about faith and culture and leadership. The conference is called Converge2101. I was asked to create a video about online character. We decided to share it with you, too.
Saturday reflection: places I read.
I realized that I don’t often tell you what I read on blogs. So I’ll change that. Here are some posts that have made me smile or weep or build my resolve in the past few weeks. They show you some of what feeds me. my life as a roadie. A person from our church, [...]
Saturday reflection: Row E, Seat 2
January 22, Hope, Nancy and I went to hear Donald Miller for the first time. We know him well, as well as you can know someone from the books he’s written, and the posts and the tweets. But we hadn’t heard him. Nancy and I drove the two hours to Mishawaka, Indiana, picked up Hope [...]
8 ways to say thank you
1. Thank someone. I mean actually personalize the thank you. Otherwise we merely have a vague sensation of being generally grateful – which is all about us. 2. Tell someone that gave you a gift how it was used. Last year, someone gave me fun-size m&m packages. I told her how they had encouraged several [...]
helping ellen.
I walked toward the front door of the church building, carrying a cup of Starbucks, my Chrome laptop, and my Kindle. Sitting inside, I knew, was Ellen. She’s a woman who didn’t have a job, a house, a car, parents, family, or a place to stay. She ended up at our church because she had [...]
The way Jon likes it.
We were running DVDs at the office. 1000 of them. We were going to pass them out on Sunday. It’s a project that had lots of people helping, including some high school interns. I was talking to the interns. One said, “I even put a bunch in the cases. The way you like them.” I didn’t [...]
help.
“I don’t like to ask for help.” That’s what she told me today. Out of work. Heart problems. Great reasons to ask for help. But she waited. And we can help with food and paper goods and toothpaste and razors. I can offer a phone number to someone else. A couple weeks ago, someone else [...]
I pushed the button
Saturday morning, I pushed the button on our modem. The house was plunged into a state of Internet disconnect. It remained that way for five hours. With the exception of power failures, that’s the longest single stretch the interior of our house has been protected from Internet rays for years. Or, it’s the longest single [...]
I’m not trying to get your business.
I would, of course, love to have you buy books through my Amazon store because I like the books and I get a little from it. But when people talk about increasing traffic so that you will buy more services, I have no services to offer. I mean, I could offer a weekly enewsletter for [...]
But sometimes it’s hard to go to church.
Responding to this survey, one of you asked: What do you do if you don’t like to go to church on Sunday mornings? What do you do if every time you try and go to church the service makes you cry so you get embarrassed and don’t go back? What do you do if someone [...]
