Monday, March 30, 2009

Getting to know Andy Stanley

Andy Stanley


North point
just launched a new website. Click here to check it out!

Unleash '09 - Session 1

This is the first session of the Unleash Conference Where Pastor Perry Noble preached to the Church about the changes it might need to make in order to be more effective.

Sunday, March 29, 2009

Men, Women & Marriage by Pastor Mark Driscoll

Here are two great messages from Pastor Mark Driscoll. He preaches about the roles and responsibilities of both men and women. I would encourage both married and single people to take some time and watch the messages.

Especially singles who are thinking about marriage!



Thursday, March 26, 2009

Fearless living - Creflo Dollar


I had the opportunity to go to a meeting recently where Pastor Creflo Dollar was preaching. He taught on fear and here are some of the notes that I took:
  • 2 Timothy 1:7
  • Panic is groundless fear.
  • The US is now more afraid then ever before.
  • We have been given:
    • Power - ability to get results
    • Love - to love what/who is not lovable
    • Sound mind - a mind that is free from fear.
  • Fear comes from hearing the contradictions of the word of God.
  • Faith comes by hearing the word of God.
  • You paralyze the devil when you operate in faith and not fear.
  • If you tolerate fear you will contaminate your faith!
  • Genesis 3:1-5
  • Fear and unbelief go hand in hand.
  • The devil does his best to make sure that believers have the doubt that what God said in his word will not come to pass.
  • Anger is an expression of fear.
  • Fear is abnormal.
  • When fear is used as a motivator it will always lead you to bondage!
  • Revelation 21:8 if it's OK to have a little fear everything else that is mentioned in the verse should also be OK. Right?
  • Philippians 1:28 (amp)
  • Matthew 6:25-33
  • Meditating on the contradiction of Gods word leads to worry!
  • Philippians 4:6-9 (amp)
  • Peace - security in the midst of turmoil!

Young Vs. Old

"Nobody grows old by merely living a number of years. People grow old by deserting their ideals. You are as young as your faith, as old as your doubt; as young as your self-confidence, as old as your fear; as young as your hope, as old as your despair." -- Douglas MacArthur, General

Are you getting older or younger?

Wednesday, March 25, 2009

Bono - Bill Hybels interview

This interview is about three years old and many have already seen this but there are still many who have not. So if you have not seen this interview, please take the time to see it.



Let me know your thoughts on this. What did you think about the whole thing?

Tuesday, March 24, 2009

Realationships - creativity - help


www.tokbox.com

Let me know your thoughts.

Creflo Dollar on Facebook!


I just saw this on my facebook wall a few minutes ago! I know lot of people have different opinions and feeling about Pastor Creflo Dollar but I for one do respect the man very much. So needless to say when I saw what you can see in the picture above, I was pretty siked about it!

It is really him on facebook and you can add him as a friend if you like by clicking here!

Thursday, March 19, 2009

Runnin on empty!

This is a picture that I took a few days ago with my phone. The good news is that I was at the gas station when i did! This has been a hectic week for me. Had a lot of things I needed to get done and lot of things on my mind. Everyone of us know that running on empty is not a good thing but sometimes we find ourselves there! This is especially true for leaders. It is not a good place to be spiritually, physically, mentally, financially or in any other area of our lives.

So here are two questions:

  1. What are some of the ways that you make sure you don't get to this place?
  2. If you do get there, what do you do to recover?
Would really like to hear your thoughts.....

Sunday, March 15, 2009

Social Media for Non Profits

This is a very good presentation. Good facts in it. Once you go through it let me know what you think!

Saturday, March 14, 2009

Twimailer

If you are tired of receiving the same boring email from Twitter every time someone follows you, this should make you feel better. Take a minute to look at the video and the sign up process hardly takes a minute.


Twimailer demo from jon on Vimeo.

If you found this helpful, take a second to tweet about it! Thanks!

Friday, March 13, 2009

Miracle!

This is a high school student from my church. She was involved in a terrible car accident but by the Grace of God survived and recovering at home now. She was recently interviewed on local news channel and here it is!

Listen to new U2 album for FREE!

Here you go! I think its a great album! Hope you like it!

Books for FREE!

I like books! I really like them when I can get them for FREE. I think many of you would like to get some books for free too, so here is an easy way to get some books for free if you have a blog!

Thomas Nelson sends you a copy of the books that they are releasing if you will write a 200+ word review of the book on your blog and on any consumer retail website.

So if you have a blog and like to read simply click here and you can get started! It hardly takes 2 minutes to get signed up. I talked about the first book I received from them here. I will soon finish reading it and write a post about it.

Post a comment and let me know if you sign up for it!

Thursday, March 12, 2009

Medium is the message!

Rob bell interviews Shane Hipps in this short clip about his new book. It is called Flickering Pixels. I have not read the book but what he says in the clip is something that I have been thinking about for the last few weeks. So check this out and let me know what you think!


Rob Bell Interviews Shane Hipps About Technology from Deadly Viper on Vimeo.

No Cussing!

I saw this on Foxnews a few days ago and wanted to share it with you all if you missed it. The club has over 20,000 members! You can get more information here.

What do you think about this? Can you use this in youth ministry?

Signs - Short Film



What do you think about it and what did you get out of it?

Wednesday, March 11, 2009

Free book from Thomas Nelson

Just got a free book from Thomas Nelson today. Going to read it and post a review of the book soon. I will also write a post about how you can do the same if you have a blog soon.

Tuesday, March 10, 2009

Selective Twitter status



I just found out about this earlier today. When i first got on twitter i synced my facebook status with twitter which really confused and irritated some of my friends on facebook. Well now thanks to the new app on facebook, only the tweets I want will be synced to facebook.

Its a very simple and easy process to install it. You can just click here and install it in a few seconds! Let me know if you need help with instaling it! Have fun!

Friday, March 6, 2009

Her morning elegance

Here is a pretty creative video and an easy going song by Oren Lavie




Enjoy!

Thursday, March 5, 2009

Nerd Compitition!?

The group of people that I work with are beginning to embrace technology and social media. This is the reply I got from my leader Anthony Bass when he realized that my Twitter score was higher than his!

I can see the competition heating up! You can check your score here.

You can follow Anthony here and you can follow me here!

P.S. Relax! we are not doing this just to goof around. We know that Social Media is much bigger than getting a score!

Funny SYMC videos

Here are some really funny and cool videos from Simply youth Ministry Conference.










Not Fair is probably my favorite. What about you?
What do you think?

What is Facebook?



I thought this was pretty funny!

Wednesday, March 4, 2009

Are Schools Killing Creativity? by Sir Ken Robinson

This is a great talk by Sir Ken Robinson at the TED.



What are your thoughts on this?

Tuesday, March 3, 2009

yahoo welcomes google!


This is what Yahoo did when Google started to Twitter! I think thats cool!