Lyrics on Line

Are you looking for the words to a song that seems to jangle around in your brain but the song is 20 years old?   Well the next time you’ve just got to find the lyrics to Led Zeppelin’s “Stairway to Heaven“, click on over to LyricWiki, a large and growing database of over 200K lyric [...]

Stott to Retire in July

The Rev Dr John Stott, aged 86, announced this week that he will formally retire in July 2007. He is one of Britain’s and the world’s best known evangelical theologians and spokespeople and had served at one time as a a former chaplain to the Queen. He will be moving from his home [...]

Will You Sing Along?

I love the Blue Man group and just ended a long week of travel by listening to their Complex Rock Tour DVD. Here is my favorite song from that DVD, featuring Dave Matthews:

New Church Conference – Bil Cornelius

I got a chance to listen to Bill Cornelius’ session and I got one great nugget from him: focus. Although they are into the thousands at Bay Area Fellowship, he said they are focused only on what they do well, and only provide Sunday services, childrens’ ministry and small groups.  Focus on what you do [...]

Landis Bankruptcy?

AP — Yikes! Say it ain’t so Floyd.
Floyd Landis said he’s lost almost $10 million in potential earnings and might need to declare bankruptcy since being accused of using drugs to help win the Tour de France last year.  He faces a two-year racing ban and would be the first cyclist in [...]

Bob Lupton at Park on Sunday

We are so excited to have Bob Lupton speaking at all three of Park’s church services this Sunday, April 29, 2007 on “Seeking Shalom in the City”, addressing the issue of our response to gentrification in the city, as we continue our series “Missional Living”.
As Park continues to expand, and looks at reaching more and [...]

Exponential Conference: Park Inspiring Others

Just got back from Orlando (a full day saga to get back to O-Hare– uugh!) where I attended the Exponential Conference — AKA The 2007 National New Church Conference.  While there, I had heard many great speakers (I’ll blog later) but I got a chance to check in with Mark Batterson, Lead Pastor at National [...]

Hybels Disappoints

Just got back from the National New Church Conference and got a chance to hear Bill Hybels speak. I like Bill Hybels and think he had made unbelieveable contributions with Willow Creek Church and then the WCA, especially the Leadership Summits. Bill Hybels was the final speaker and followed the Mark Driscoll video where Mark [...]

Exponential Conference: Driscoll

Mark Driscoll gave a message via video to all the 1,800 church planters in attendance at the 2007 National New Church Conference. The video was done all outside, in a cemetery with hundreds of identical grave markers (looked like a WW1 graveyard — anyone know where?). The visual helped everyone see the uphill [...]

Tech: Beatitudes on Your Blackberry

(Christian Today UK) Wherever you are, whatever you do, the Bible is now just a click away – downloadable to your mobile phone. If your phone can access the internet, you can now download the complete Bible, both the Old and New Testament. It is available in different versions including the Good News Bible, [...]

Give Landis’ Guy Access

Floyd Landis wants to prove his innocence. So he has a rep at the lab in France to watch as all the samples are retested. However, they tested without letting Landis’ rep in the testing area. We believe in fairness — is fairness not a worldwide, mainstream value? Come on — [...]

New Church/Non Profit Email App

We’ve been poking around at some email solutions as we work with more and more non-profits in Chicago. I found one that seems to have a decent offering at an excellent price point. It’s called BluePogo. It allows churches to create email campaigns and send them without quantity limitations. It is a [...]

WSJ: BofA to buy Chicago’s LaSalle Bank for $21B

Having spent 7 years as a banker and having a huge love for all things Chicago, I am quite interested to learn that BofA, (my former employer) is going to buy LaSalle Bank and become the largest bank in Chicago.
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(AP) — Dutch bank ABN Amro NV has reached an agreement to sell its U.S. [...]

An Audience of One

As we continue our series at Park Community Church on Missional Living in the city, I was reminded in Jackson Crum’s message today that in everything I do and am, I only have an audience of one. Not to fear man, or others, I need to fear and worship the God of [...]

Being Salt and Light

Our church, Park Commmunity Church, is in the middle of a key series called “Missional Living in the City” and we are learning what it means to be ‘salt and light’ in the city. Here’s another take on it from Tim Keller, Senior Pastor of Reedeemer Presebyterian Church, who gives a 5 minute summary of [...]

Today We are All Hokies

I saw this editorial cartoon this week that really touched home. It shows the mascots of many of Tech’s collegiate rivals, and the caption simply reads: “Today we are all Hokies.”. I agree — all of us are united in prayer behind the Hokie nation and our hearts and prayers go out to all [...]

2007 National New Church Conference

Several of us have been graciously been given the opportunity to attend the 2007 National New Church Conference next week and it is going to be a great one. The National New Church Conference is a cross-denominational gathering designed to connect, inspire, equip and challenge church planting leaders to the next level of collaboration. [...]

The Logic of Believing

Caught this today about trash can lid logic and God, and it made perfect sense as I thought about the last paragraph…
““Now, I’m a gambler, you know?” He smiled. We both smiled. He was, we both knew — everybody knew — the best at all betting games in the neighborhood. “And suppose I had [...]

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