Month: March 2012

Film Review: Blue Like Jazz

Today I had an opportunity to attend an advanced screening of Blue Like Jazz. Donald Miller, Steve Taylor, Marshall Allman and others were there for a Q & A. What a wonderful privilege. I’ve heard Donald speak twice at Orange and as a result, I read A Million Miles in a Thousand Years last fall. It was probably one of the best books I read last year. I’m only half way through Blue Like Jazz right now. I wrote more than a year ago about how KickStarter was used to get this movie funded, which is an incredible story of it’s own.

So, last week I got an invite to attend the screening and I made arrangements for Sara and I to get a little date and see the movie. So, what did I think?

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Collaboration to the NEXT level!

So, I posted the other day that I’ve been watching a lot of TED talks through the TED app. It’s funny because I find myself in many conversations recently where I’ll say, “You know, I watched a TED talk recently that said…” If you’re looking to enrich your conversations with other people, by all means, you should watch/listen to some of these talks.

However, I listened to one on Saturday that has shaken me. The pure beauty of the innovation and thinking outside of the box both excites me and challenges me. It made me wish and pray for this kind of innovative thought for ministry. In this talk, Luis von Ahn explains how he’s leveraging the masses for incredibly massive collaborative projects, even when the masses have no idea how they are contributing.

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Vote for Jenny!

For the third year in a row, ministry-to-children.com has hosted the Blog Madness competition. During the month of March some of the top kidmin blogs are put in NCAA tournament style brackets and given a week to duke it out, collecting as many votes as they can. The first year, I made it to the final four and I think I took third place. Last year I made it to the second round, but then concentrated all my efforts to seeing my friend Jared Massey win… and that he did. The competition just started up again and we’re in round two. I’ve made it to the second round, but as far as I’m concerned, I’m as far as I want to go for this competition.

So, if you would, I’d like to ask you for a favor. Would you take just a minute to place a vote for me?

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Unveiling the Gospel Project

Yesterday I had the privlidge of attending Lifeway’s web broadcast announcing the Gospel Project. It was a great day of learning, exploring what the Gospel Project was all about and connecting with some new friends. The...

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The Gospel Project

Today is a big day for Lifeway! For the last several months, you may have seen that Lifeway has been working on a new curriculum called the Gospel Project. Not only is this a new curriculum for kids, but curriculum for every age...

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Fish Philosophy

Today we had a guest speaker come to our staff meeting at Gateway, K & N Management from here in Austin. K & N management own all the Rudy’s BBQ joints in town as well as Mighty Fine Burger’s, two HIGHLY...

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