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Archive for July, 2006

Pastor Burnout

An interesting article from Ministry Today about the subject.

The Turning Around, Part Sixteen

Another crucial meeting of “The Turning Around” at ‘the church’ took place tonight. The church started off singing a couple of the choruses and then proceeded into prayer for the Pastoral Search Committee, the meeting, some personal prayer requests, etc. After the prayer, several issues were addressed in reference to the Pastoral Search Committee, feedback [...]

I Have A Problem, Therefore You Must Also Have The Same Problem

I was reading this article from the JollyBlogger and noticed the sermon where Billy Sunday mentioned card playing. From reading the sermon on JollyBlogger’s web page, I went and “Wikipediaed” Billy Sunday and noticed that:

The Turning Around, Part Fifteen

This morning, it was announced by the Pastoral Search Committee that their trip to the General Convention last month was fruitful and successful. The position was advertised there and contacts/applications were received during the after-hours time at the convention. There was also discussion of how they have reviewed countless sermons, Internet streaming sermons, viewed web [...]

The Pathetic Realm - Charismatic Magicians

When I was around nine years old, there used to be a cartoon segment that appeared along with the Scooby Doo cartoon entitled The Laff-A-Lympics that was a cartton spoof combination of the Olympics and the ABC television series Battle of the Network Stars.

A Friend Sent This In

A friend of mine sent this quote to me:

I wish they would remember that the charge to Peter was “Feed my sheep”, not “Try experiments on my rats”, or even “Teach my performing dogs new tricks”. - C. S. Lewis

I do not know from which C.S. Lewis book this was from, but the quote really [...]

Baby Boomers Begat Emergents

Interesting article from Diane over at Crossroads.