Podcasting for Churches: Lessons from the Field

About six months ago, the communications team that I am a part of at Park Community Church began to set out on a journey to update our website. Key elements of the update included a new home page, an online calendar, a summary of events that we call “the Quick Six” and the ability to [...]

Lessons From The Tour: The Long Road Ahead

FROM AP –After an arduous 20 stages, Floyd Landis vaulted into the annals of cycling lore with Sunday’s win in the 103rd Tour, crowning a stunning comeback. All but written off after cracking in the final climb last Wednesday, the Phonak team leader managed a stunning rebound on Thursday on the the last mountain stage, [...]

Landis: Another American Star is Born

Soft-spoken Floyd Landis let his heart, courage and legs do the talking in the final time trial, know as the “Race of Truth”, and came out a winner, gaining 59 seconds on his friend and old teammate, Oscar Pereiro. And with the herculean effort on stage 17, (see this writeup), Floyd Landis has exploded into [...]

Landis on YouTube

Floyd Landis’ Miracle 17th stage Effort on YouTube

“Greatest One Day Ride in Tour de France History”

Floyd Landis proved he has a guts and heart of a champion and wrote himself into the record books with the ‘greatest one day ride in the history of the 103-year Tour de France’. He attacked for more than 140 km attack on the peloton and the maillot jaune, and erased 7:38 of his time [...]

Landis: BONK!

The Tour de France proved today it remains unpredictable and one of the world’s great sporting events. Today’s stage 16 — 120 miles with tortious mountain climbs — witnessed the agony and the ecstasy of high athletic drama. The agony was wrapped up in the bonk of Floyd Landis, who went into today wearing the [...]

Genesis 3: The Fall

Genesis 3 – The Fall of Man 1 Now the serpent was more crafty than any of the wild animals the LORD God had made. He said to the woman, “Did God really say, ‘You must not eat from any tree in the garden’?” 2 The woman said to the serpent, “We may eat fruit [...]

Genesis 1 – “Every”

As we start our ACT ONE: Genesis series two week ago at Park, I have spent a good deal of time re-reading the this key account of creation and the fall of man. As I spent time reflecting on this powerful passage, I began to notice somethig that I didn’t in the past. Seven times [...]

The Sobriety of Death – Part 2

Why do we fill our days with endless activities? — of pushing ahead, climbing the ladder, etc. Life is about relationships….a vertical relationship with the Creator and horizontal relationship with other humans (our family, our friends, our neighbors, our co-workers, etc). As I look at someone like Sara Western Garavaglia who only had a little [...]

The Sobriety of Death – Part 1

Yesterday, a old friend Sara Western Garavaglia, who I admired for her worshipful life and her beautiful singing voice, passed away, having just past her her forty-first birthday. She was one of my alltime favorite worship singers, who could reach way into her soul as she sang songs of praise to God. Wrought by cancer, [...]

Boston: Quietly Experiencing Revival

I love to think about and dwell on the influence that world-class cities have on the rest of the world and the awesome potential impact we can have for the Kingdom if we harness that influence through an inside-out strategy. Impacting the city for Christ from the inside and then seeing that Christian influence spread [...]

Irish Fest

This weekend , we took the family and walked over to the Irish American Heritage Center for the annual IrishFest – check out the poster.   Being 87% Irish (1/8th French Canadian), it is a chance to impart some my family heritage on my four kids. It was a great time with kids games, and a chance [...]

Guest Feedback Surveys

At Park Community Church, we are a church that tries to understand relevant issues in our lives. A place where real people come, with their real problems, and their real questions. And while we know that coming to our church one Sunday won’t make everything perfect, we are a community of people on a similar journey - [...]

Lifest Draws 85,000

As we pass the 4th of July weekend, we are just in the middle of the eighth annual Lifest, a huge 5-day Christian concert festival July 4-9, that should draw upwards of 85,000 to Oshkosh, WI, just to our north.  This annual festival has become firmly entrenched as the largest Christian music festival in Wisconsin and one of the [...]

Sphere – The Blogger’s Search Tool

Check out this excellent new blog search tool called Sphere.  As many of you know, it is downright impossible to keep up with the steady stream of posts on your favorite subject, like podcasting, urban ministry, emergent church, etc.  We already have blog search engines (such as Technorati, Blogdigger) that help you find the latest blog [...]

Front Seat to the World

JUNE 23 — Tonight my wife and I watched Iconoclasts, a TV show that brings together two innovative leaders from different fields including film and television, architecture and design, fashion, food, music, and sports and presents an intimate, unpredictable portrait of today’s provocative creative leaders. In this episode, Oscar®-winning actress Renée Zellweger (COLD MOUNTAIN, BRIDGET [...]

Superstar Blogger Changes Horses

JUNE 21 — How can you tell that blogging has gone mainstream?  When a blogger leaves a company and the news is worthy of the Wall Street Journal homepage. In the world of blogging, few names conjure up superstar status like Robert Scoble. Word spread last week that Robert Scoble is leaving Microsoft for a [...]

Deeper Waters

JUNE 21 — We spent three days last week in Wisconsin on beautiful Lake Delavan as a church staff seeking to review the year, understanding where God is working and then begin to plan for the upcoming year. One of the things that struck me as I prepared for this time was Jesus’ words in [...]

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