I had a great time teaching at Impact Church last Sunday…I almost choked up there at the end. We love you guys. Keep loving God, loving people and making an impact.

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Want to follow the progress of the launch of a new website and internet campus at Gateway Church? The first in a series of posts is up over at ChurchCrunch.com.

Go Check it out_

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The Get Stuff Done series will be more or less a resource for the web and creative teams at Gateway Church as well as anybody else who spends a lot of time working in a creative role.

This addition of Get Stuff Done I want to show you the Linkify bookmarklet. Its a great little tool that I use all the time. Check it out:

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I have been telling people how much I love newspapers because the are a handy archive of the stuff I read online yesterday.

I have pretty much grown up in the age of the news being on TV every night. This news was probably a day or two old by the time most people heard it.

Along came the internet and you could get your news 12-18 hours later.

Then blogs entered the picture and your news has only a few hours old. Sweet!

Twitter is here now and it seems as if news is old after about 15 minutes. A couple times a day I check in at TwitScoop.com and a lot of times you can see live news happening right before your eyes.

When we have an earthquake down here in SoCal, I can check Twitter and I know how big it was, where it was centered and if my friends and family are okay long before the TV news can even get a camera in front of a reporter.

This blog post is old news…

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There’s not much in the way of mountains in Texas so I new I had to head up to San Gorgornio before we left. Micah, Mark and John made the trek along with my dog Titus. The trail we intended to hit was at capacity for the holiday which is typical Southern California so we headed up an unfamiliar route which turned out to be a sweet trail. We ended up at a beautiful cascading waterfall and ate lunch and relaxed in the mountain air.

After about ten miles Titus’ feet were pretty tore up. I’m sure he had traveled more than ten because he was running all over the place sniffing and doing doggy things. We ended about taking turns carrying Titus the last two miles back. Poor little guy, at five months old his feet aren’t quite tough enough for that kind of adventure.

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Tony Morgan had a great take on what most churches see their website as:

It’s a one-sided relationship. The church views the web as a place to promote their agenda. No interaction with the audience. No stories of life change. No solutions to help people experience community or discipleship online. At best, you may be able to watch a video of a service, but you certainly won’t have the opportunity to engage a conversation with others about what you’re watching.

Read the rest over at Tony Morgan Live

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Have you ever moved?

Then you know the pile of boxes and junk that we are living in right now.

I’ll be back

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My favorite leadership book is The Art of War by Sun Tzu. The truths contained in it are timeless and I have yet to read a modern book on leadership that touches on anything truly new. I would also add that Dr. Seuss has some killer leadership insight, see Yertle the Turtle.

I’m gonna try and  touch on some of my favorite nuggets of wisdom from Master Sun over the next 6 months or so. Maybe once a week, I’m not gonna commit myself to anything, we’ll see where this goes. Maybe I’ll just end up dropping John Maxwell quotes or something.

Master Sun:

“Therefore the consummation of forming an army is to arrive at formlessness. When you have no form, undercover espionage cannot find out anything, intelligence cannot form a strategy.”

I have this concept that I call the appearance of spontaneity, based on the fact that current generations are turned off by institutions. In a modern reality, a clear an obvious structure is vital to the survival of an institution.

In our post modern reality that is increasingly hostile towards institutions, especially the Church as an institution, it becomes vital to survival the we appear more organic and de-centralized.

I think this may be a tough idea to swallow.

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