The Digital Pastor || Blogging as Outreach
Updated 4/12/12 This is the third installment in The Digital Pastor series. This series was birthed out of wanting to think with […]
Updated 4/12/12 This is the third installment in The Digital Pastor series. This series was birthed out of wanting to think with […]
Updated 3/2/12 Do you ever find yourself wishing you could simply “power off”? Shut down? Flip a switch and turn your brain […]
It’s a new year and I’m resolving to make some changes.
This year, in regards to how I approach ministry with college students, I’m taking a ‘LESS IS MORE’ approach.
Why?
Because what I’ve been doing has not been working.
Cramming my calendar full of meetings and overwhelming the campus calendar with more and more ministry-related opportunities has not yielded the kind of ‘fruitful results’ that I’ve hoped for.
It’s exam time on campus…
And I guess it only makes sense that at the end of the semester we would put ourselves through a “final exam” of sorts… right?
With all that has happened and hasn’t happened — with all of the feelings of relief, release, regret, ready-to-be-done-ness that we feel at the end of the term, it is important for us to consider how we might make these final couple of weeks before the Christmas holiday as fruitful as possible.
I got the chance to share with some 2nd year Vanderbilt Divinity School students yesterday about social media, blogging and ministry. It […]
In my post yesterday I asked the question: How do you make tough, unpopular decisions? My question today is just like it, […]
How do you make tough, unpopular decisions?
You know what I’m talking about… those decisions that no one wants to make.
We don’t often go looking for them…
But from time to time they find us.
And it always seems as though there’s something significant hanging in the balance.
It’s never easy.
Or fun.
How is technology impacting your ministry? I’m really curious to know what you think… because I firmly believe that there are some […]
In the classic, Celebration of Discipline: The Path to Spiritual Growth, author Richard Foster made this significant observation: In contemporary society our […]
Years ago, one of my music instructors introduced me to the wonders of jazz. I came to love its freedom and improvisation, […]