2007 Projection: Media Overload!

As we get ready to head into 2007, the U.S. Census Bureau has been hard at work summarizing and projecting various activities. They recently projected that in 2007, adults and teens will spend nearly five months (3,518 hours — nearly 10 hours a day) watching television, surfing the Internet, reading daily newspapers and listening to [...]

Are You Missional?

“A missional church is not about programs, but rather is a distinct church culture. Churches, like any organism, adopt and are influenced by culture. Culture can be identified by observing behaviors. In fact, culture is the set of underlying values that drive our behavior. We act like we do, because we believe what we do. [...]

Merry Christmas and “Mele Kalikimaka”

I am wishing you all a merry Christmas and Mele Kalikimaka from the warm climate of Maui, where, due the extreme generosity of my parents, we find ourselves this Christmas day (I guess someone has to be here, right?). With all of the buildup this holiday season (I noticed this year that all of the [...]

The Sears Wish Book & Merry Christmas to All

The other night, we got a chance to have an all-church Candlelight Service in the beautiful St. Paul’s on Orchard Street. The worship was magnificent, led by Jim Dougherty, the decorations were stunning and more than 650 folks took part in the annual Christmas favorite. At the service, Lead Pastor Jackson Crum told of God’s [...]

What Does Christmas Mean To You?

What Does Christmas Mean to Me? This is a question I have been asking myself as I get older and seem to get flooded by more and more busy-ness and advertising that tries and move me farther and farther from the true meaning of Christmas. I look at the true meaning of Christmas and I [...]

My! How Phones Have Changed!

Check out the 45 sec. YouTube post today on the change in cell phones in the last twenty years. I like it because I can remember having the big clunky cell phones in the 80′s. Hilarious!

Could Jesus Be A Modern Day Pastor?

Perry Noble of New Spring Church sums up what many pastors and leaders have thought at one time or another about Jesus as they burrow down and focus on growing their own ministries. Read the post…..here are his main points. #1 – Jesus Obviously Cared About Numbers! #2 – Jesus Was Not An Expository Preacher! [...]

24: Changing the Way America Watches TV

I am a HUGE 24 and Keifer Sutherland fan and can’t wait for the sixth season to get underway in January. There is a great post by Aaron at watching-24.com commenting on how the serialized nature of 24 has changed TV from the “need to have it all wrapped up in a bow in 60 [...]

Today’s Personal Tech Tip: Increasing Font Size

All of us need help with the bewildering amount of technology.  From time to time, I am going to give tips I come across that help bridge the widening digital divide between users and techsters.  Today tip lets you increase the fonts on the page you are looking at with a simple maneuver. If you [...]

Church Techs: Book of the Year?

Robert Scoble at Scobleizer has a great post on a great new book for 2007 — Gina Trapani’s LifeHacker book. He calls it the owners manual for the always on, always connected person. What is the book called? Lifehacker: 88 Tech Tricks to Turbocharge Your Day. In today’s “always connected, deliver everything to me electronically” [...]

Love That Cycling Santa!

I love to bike and here is a festive Santa cycling in the season!  Maybe he has a 2006 Official Tour de France winner’s certificate for Floyd Landis this year (we can only hope!)    

Sanitized Christmas Cards?

SUNDAY MISCELLANEOUS: Today in the Daily Mail is a story out of London that in their recent nationwide survey, only one in a hundred Christmas cards has any sort of religious symbols or message. WOW! Have we progressed to that point already? The God of the universe comes down into our world, and people celebrate [...]

Top 20 Websites: Who’s In, Who’s Out

With a fair amount of my attention at Park Community Church being focused on our website and other various methods of electronic communications, I spend a lot of time keeping up on web/blog/web design trends. Over at Compete.com, there is an interesting analysis of the Top 20 websites for October 2006, with Yahoo ranking #1 [...]

The Incredible Shrinking Cost of Computers (HP: $299)

I am continually amazed at the shrinking cost of computing……..Today, our Park Community Church tech guys sent us a link for a $299 HP Business Computer. I initially scoffed, thinking this must be a low-end retail computer but no, these are real business HPs. It is amazing to think of the downward compression on the [...]

Recommended Chicago Theater: A Christmas Carol

The reviews are in and Provision Theater‘s Christmas Carol at the Victory Gardens Theater is a big hit! Check out this online review! Go ahead and make your plans to see this great family-fare in the Christmas season. Tickets are available online for shows Weds-Sun through Dec 30th Here is what one critic says “Amazingly, [...]

The Bible’s First Management Consultant

As we continue to expand God’s work in the city of Chicago through Park Community Church, we know we must grow our leadership core. But what does the Bible say about the leadership development process? What are the key steps we must do as leaders to gain the critical mass of leaders we will need [...]

Church Phone Gurus

As we prepare for our September grand opening of our first permanent worship space in a 90,000 sq ft warehouse, we are beginning to think through our requirements for a phone system and all the changes in the communcations landscape. With all the changes happening out there in the communications area, I’d love to hear [...]

Podcasting 101

Over the last year, our church, Park Community Church in Chicago has made a huge commitment to growing our internet presence as an “on ramp” for many people who check out Park before ever stepping in our doors. We are also cognizant of all the people who may miss a week or want to hear [...]

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