If you haven’t already, it’s time to start educating yourself in the political arena … so that when you hear someone start spouting whatever political banter they spout, you can stand firm in your facts and principles and be able to say, “whatever, you’re full of it” and retort with being educated, or you can say, “yep, that’s exactly right” and agree through education of facts and principles.
here’s a video of Glenn Beck, one of the top political and historical educators and commentators around.
722 - a long-time ministry (12 years) of North Point, Buckhead, Louie Giglio and others - announces its closing after an “ah-ha” moment on its purpose.
The main caveat of the decision came from a statement made by Craig Groeschel, founder and senior pastor of LifeChurch.tv, who said, “if you’re going to reach people who nobody else is reaching - you’re going to have to do things that nobody else is doing.”
“Things that worked in the 60’s & 70’s don’t work anymore. It’s like fishing with gear from the past that doesn’t work anymore. The purpose never changes, but the methods MUST change contstantly.”
“What churches copied for growth in the 80’s & 90’s was the wrong thing. Churches don’t grow based on drama or music or preaching or structure or a rock band; it’s about changed lives and growing relationships. Where people’s lives are changed, people want to be.”
“I highly believe you need to take days off or you will burn out. Saturday and Sunday don’t count for ministry staff as Sabboths … they’re just not.”
– Rick Warren (watch video)
When the ad agency and I parted ways a few weeks ago, I nearly felt like Desmond jumping back to 1996. See, it was a simpler time, when computers didn’t need to be as fast and robust, and I didn’t make my living working on them … quickly and efficiently.
Well, negotiation with the agency didn’t result in me keeping my computer, so after sending it back, I was left with an old standby. This computer could get the job done for minimal usage, but I typically run Photoshop, Flash, an HTML editor, FTP client, Firefox and Zune all at the same time … this computer looked at me cross-eyed when I tried that the first time, then it took 15 seconds for my mouse to move across the screen.
Suddenly I remembered a conversation I had with Nate a few months ago. He mentioned that his family had a computer that they may be parting with, so I gave him a shout, and lo and behold it somehow got from Kansas City to my office in St. Louis in just a couple days after mentioning it.
UNBELIEVABLE!!!!!
We first met the Holder family when we moved to Kansas City in 2003, as Jen went on staff at Nall Avenue Baptist Church. Almost instantly and since then, the Holders have been great friends, and have helped us out in numerous ways, and we couldn’t be more appreciative.
Now, this computer isn’t the end-all, be-all of computers … but, to me, this is light years above where I was just a day ago. At least the mouse moves across the screen in normal time - not whenever it feels like moving.
Mr. Holder (Andy) is the president of Semichem, Inc. — Providers of computational chemistry including the famous AMPAC8, a program providing semiemperical quantum mechanics. I know a lot of you have been in that market for a while just looking for a quality provider of semiemperical quantum mechanics, so let Semichem be your solution!
Anyway, we love the Holders. Thank you very much for your friendship and what you’ve done for us. I will put my new Dell OptiPlex GX280 w/ Two 3.40 Pentimum 4 Processors, 1 GB of Memory, 280 GB HD and Windows XP Pro to uses beyond its wildest imaginations. Thanks.
When the ad agency and I parted ways a few weeks ago, I nearly felt like 
