Entrepreneuring in Chicago

Fast Company has a great article about why you should start a company in Chicago.   Chicago is where many Internet mainstays were launched, from the jobs site CareerBuilder and travel service Orbitz to RSS technology innovators Feedburner (bought by Google in 2007) and the online audience measurement outfit comScore. One hot startup right now is [...]

Faith at Work

As I get ready to transition out of Park with the soon-to-open new ministry center, I am reflecting a lot on my new role as the CEO of a new company FanFuego.com, the leading multi-sport social network for sports fans, and my leadership style and faith at work. I came across a great article in [...]

Barna — A New Perspective on Unchurched

According to a new study released by The Barna Group, popular measures such as the percentage of people who are “unchurched” – based on attendance at a conventional church service – are out of date. Various new forms of faith community and experience, such as house churches, marketplace ministries and cyberchurches, must be figured into [...]

Now Get 20 Million Minutes By Email!

Are you flying around all week at work and would rather have any new posts from 20 Million Minutes sent directly to you by email or RSS? After a number of requests, we have now added both of those options to the 20 Million Minutes blog! All of our feeds have been migrated to Feedburner, [...]

Get Rid of Those Catalogs — Easily

My wife and I are studying “Restoring Margin in our Overloaded Lives” in our small group study and what a time a personal reflection — we are looking at all the things that barrage and steal away our time and our attention. Sue got wind of this site that let’s you opt out of catalogs [...]

Illinois — In the High Tech Leader Pack

At Park Community Church, we believe that Chicago (and Illinois) is the most important place to live and minister. It is a place that attracts people for job opportunities, access to culture and the arts, educational opportunities, and quality of life. However, the continued success of Chicago as a global city that influences the world [...]

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 [...]