February 7th, 2010 §
A collection of links from my weekly Internet travels:
Seth Godin on “Modern Procrastination“.
Great post by Timmy Brister on Obama and the privatization of religion through technology. Yes, they’re related.
The Guardian book blog asks, “Who Stole Our Reading Time?”
How much do you think an e-book should cost?
Calvin and Hobbes creator, Bill Watterson, does his first interview in 15 years.
The Verge Missional Community Conference was over the weekend. You can get some recaps at my friend, Brent Thomas’ blog here and here and here
Your iPhone can now be your personal assistant.
I love my Kindle. Here’s a good article on 7 ways Amazon.com can make it better.
Timmy Brister muses on dysfunctional Calvinism. Great pithy post.
Brian Clark asks, “Does SEO Copywriting Still Matter?”
The top 10 literary agent query letter mistakes.
January 31st, 2010 §
Three lessons your children can learn if you’re a freelancer.
The Pope is encouraging all priests to utilize web 2.0 for the glory of God.
My friend and local A29 pastor, Brent Thomas, is getting some much deserved attention on his posts regarding the growing rift between some reformed folks and the missional camp. First he was retweeted by Matt Chandler, and now Ed Stetzer is talking about him and his blog posts.
Tyler Braun writes on the importance of worship lyrics. He gets it right, for sure.
J.D. Salinger died this week. Here’s a couple interesting pieces on him in The Gaurdian and Fast Company.
Tim Keller on why Redeemer went multi-site.
My friend Bill Streger re-launched his blog, and it looks great. Check it out. And while you’re at it, read his post on the difference between church planting and church revitalization.
7 Great Ways for Extroverts to Increase Their Writing Productivity. I really needed this article.
January 24th, 2010 §
Interesting reads I’ve found through my week of Internet travels:
Look for the iTunes cloud to cover your music skies soon.
Great post on leadership malpractice from the Harvard Business Blog.
“Proud missiologists are not so good at listening; they’re almost never ready to learn from others, especially from those without the necessary credentials.” An important read from IX Marks.
Joe Thorn lays down a good quote from John Piper’s latest book and gives some more suggestions for reading on the topic of pain and God’s sovereignty.
Christianity without Christ is crap. A great post on by Jason Salamun.
So we’re doing a series on eschatology (end times) at Praxis Church, The Survivors Guide to the Apocalypse. Coincidently, The Guardian book blog had a feature on the history of Apocalyptic literature…or was it a coincidence?
An interesting article from NY Times book review on the power of the simple checklist.
Looking to boost your church website’s traffic and power? You might want to check out Monk Development’s Church Website Optimizer.
Bob Hyatt at Out of Ur give five excellent reasons why to love the emerging/emergent church streams.
Work from home? Here’s a great post on how to keep it from destroying your life!
Want a book deal? Here’s an awesome post from Write For Your Life on The Five Rules of Getting a Book Deal.
December 26th, 2009 §
Interesting reads from a weeks worth of wasted time on the Internet.
The future of the PC…according to OLPC.
ChurchCrunch highlights an awesome way to use the SimpleMap Wordpress plug-in for multi-site churches.
All Roads Lead to Chrome…This is long but worth the read.
A good primer on pre-modern, modern, and post-modern thought…and it’s implications for Evangelicals over at Scriptorium Daily.
A great post on Copyblogger by Jon Marrow. Very inspirational.
Article on Urban Church Planting in the Wall Street Journal.
Since it’s Advent, how about reading two takes on the necessity of the doctrine of the virgin birth. Read Keven DeYoung’s post (which I’m agree with) here and a follow up here. Read Tony Jones post (which is a good example of prevailing modern scholarship) here
A pithy little piece by Seth Godin (is there any other kind?) on the difference between hiring and recruiting.
Harvard Business Blog wonders if you’ve lowered your information standards.
September 25th, 2009 §
A collection of interesting and mostly unrelated content from my online explorations for the week of 9/20/09.
Read an good review of William Fareley’s Gospel-Powered Parenting.
Russell Moore discusses the 10 Best Novels by Southern writers. I’m reading Wise Blood right now coincidentally.
Brent Thomas and I are discussing the Church and our digital world at Holiday at the Sea.
Copyblogger encourages us not to be who we are – online. Read it here.
There is a lot of internet chatter about the 9 scientifically proven ways to get retweeted. I was never good at science.
Learn about churchrater.com over on Out of Ur. BTW – I think it’s a stupid idea for the record.
Justin Taylor runs a series on the historical reality of Adam here and here.
Want a job at Google? Crack this code.
Mark Driscoll continues his series on leadership being lonely, which I wrote about here.
“Ever since Adam and Eve took a bite into the deadly passion-fruit, we’ve been hiding…hiding from who we were truly meant to be, how we were truly made to live.” Great blog by Chuck Degroat here.
For you freelancers: 5 focus killers and how to deal with them.
“It’s important, we’re finding, to get beyond a token youth Sunday and start thinking about how to involve kids as ushers and greeters and readers and musicians in our services.” Interesting and enlightening interview on age segmentation in churches.
David Silverman waxes nostalgia about suits.
“Nothing on this earth is so closely attached to the gospel as good, godly sex in marriage-and Satan hates it.” Thoughts on sexual sin from Travel Blog.
One of the more amazing charts I’ve seen in a long while, courtesy of Brian McLaren.
Tim Schraeder continues some excellent thoughts on the role of the church Communications Director here.
Perry Noble offers some great, practical advice to pastors on getting recharged.
“In each case, the reason you wrote someone off had nothing to do with their product and everything to do with their lack of cultural wisdom.” A must read from Seth Godin.