Where is the Global Warming?

Where are the supposed global warming effects? A rare snowstorm swept the Middle East on Wednesday, blanketing parts of the Holy Land in white, shutting schools and sending excited children into the streets for snowball fights. The weather in Jerusalem was the lead story on local newscasts, eclipsing a government report on Israel’s 2006 war [...]

Happy Birthday Sue!

Just a quick wish of the bestest birthday to the love of my life, Sue Lavey, who is enjoying her birthday week this week. You will always be the best!

It’s a New Year — Can You Go Without?

As our new warehouse ministry center gets closer to opening and I begin a long transition from staff to the marketplace as CEO of a social network for sports fans, I was reminded this week that while technology has made so many things better, we are beginning to get caught in a mobius trap where [...]

Chicago Named 1 of 10 Alpha Cities in World

 According to the Globalization and World Cities (GaWC) Study Group, Chicago is one of the 10 Alpha Cities in the world, based on its position as a a global service center.  Just one more reason to live and work here in this “City in a Garden”.   The GaWC summarizes these global cities as: Although [...]

Great Post: The Difference Between Excellence and Perfection

As I scour the blogosphere for nuggets of truth and wisdom, I came across Scott Magdalein’s blog, ReadScott.com, the Worship Leader for The Fellowship @ Celebration Baptist Church in Jacksonville Florida and I loved this post because for many of us, we struggle with trying to obtain perfection, from ourseleves, and also from our reports, [...]

Clinton Embarrassed: “Hello Southwest Airlines?”

Bill Clinton must be burning the candle at both ends as he suffered huge embarrassment by falling asleep during Martin Luther King speeches today, while being seated in the seat of honor……ouch! — he needs a Southwest Airline ticket to take him somewhere, doesn’t he?

Seal Found of First Jeruslam Temple Servants

A black stone seal found in an archaeological dig in Jerusalem adds more proof to a growing mountain of tangible evidence showing the accuracy of the Bible’s account of history. The seal, found in excavations taking place in the City of David just south of the Temple Mount, bears the name “Temech,” listed in the [...]

CAS: “We’ll Hear Landis Case”

Reuters reports that Floyd Landis’s appeal of a doping ban that cost him the 2006 Tour de France title is scheduled to be heard by a Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) panel on March 19, the rider’s attorney told Reuters on Saturday. “We are really looking forward to appealing the (U.S.) decision and optimistic [...]

Chicago Leads Nation: 25-34 Year Olds

As we have always said at Park Community Church, Chicago is a magnet for bright talented college graduates to come to a global city and begin their careers. This was affirmed this week in an article by Crains Chicago Business who reported that Chicago leads the nation in the concentration of 25-34 year olds within [...]

Chicago Photo of the Week

As we enjoyed the warm weather last week, here is a shot of the Chicago River with the Trump Tower prominent in the shot.  Don’t we live in the best city in the world?   Source:  Riva

VeggieTales Trailer and Questions: The Pirates Who Don’t Do Anything

“The children’s franchise delivers an entertaining spoof as the vegetables find the heroes in themselves.” — LA TIMES “Most Entertaining” – Hollywood Reporter “Pirates imparts the Bible-inspired storytelling parents and kids have come to expect from VeggieTales in a less obvious but as-fun-as-always package.” – Christianity Today DISCUSSION STARTERS: Here are some questions from Christianity [...]

Park Alumni: Veggietales Creators

This weekend, the Veggietales “Pirates Who Don’t Do Anything” opens nationwide. The creators of Veggie Tales, Phil Vischer, Kurt Heinecke and Mike Nawrocki attended Park in the early 1990′s and many of the early character voices are played by Park people, including Kristin Blegen, Dan Anderson, Mike Sage, and Jim Poole, who is a co-founder [...]

Join us for TRANSFORMED

This weekend we kick off a new series at Park called TRANSFORMED, that explores one of the most important books of the Bible for believers, the book of Romans. Through our study of the book of Romans, we’ll be answering some difficult questions and dealing with issues that are important to our Christian faith. Romans [...]

Vision Sunday

Wow –what a great vision for a city center church! On Sunday, Jackson Crum, lead pastor at our church, Park Community Church, gave an incredible message of what God has called us to and where Park is going as it marshalls its resources and people to effect change and renewal in the city of Chicago.  [...]

Write Down Your Goals

In the book What They Don’t Teach You in the Harvard Business School, Mark McCormack tells a study conducted on students in the 1979 Harvard MBA program. In that year, the students were asked, “Have you set clear, written goals for your future and made plans to accomplish them?” Only three percent of the graduates [...]

Chicago is the Most……

As many of you know, I LOVE CHICAGO and all things about ti and believe that is ti the most livable, and best global city to live in around the world. As we begin 2008, I thought I would give you some of the titles Chicago holds as I Googled around the web. Chicago is [...]

SEC Who?: Michigan thumps Florida 41-35

Debunking the myth that the SEC is the premier conference, Chad Henne threw for 373 yards and three touchdowns, Mike Hart ran for 129 yards and two scores and the Michigan Wolverines upset last year’s national champions and No. 9-rated Florida 41-35 Tuesday in the Capital One Bowl to win their first bowl game since [...]

New Year’s Resolutions

Each year, I read about lots of people’s new year’s resolutions. Long lists of things they want to accomplish in the current year — many of which are abandoned before the long winter nights of February are through. I am not doing the list of 57 things this year. This year, I am setting five [...]

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