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Monthly Archives: May 2007
Putting the emPHAsis on the wrong sylLAble
I had a conversation a few weeks ago with a couple of church leaders who wanted to “mobilize†their church members into ministry. They wanted to turn around the situation in their church (common to many congregations) where 20% of … Continue reading
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How’s your focus?
How good are you at multiple object tracking? Here’s an interesting little vision test from the University of Guelph website. This is from Dr. Lana Trick, Associate Professor of Psychology at Applied Cognitive Science department. See how well you can … Continue reading
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Critical?
Someone asked me, “How do you know when you are being critical and when you are pointing out errors?†When I asked her to clarify what she was asking she thought for a moment and said, “I’m wondering about how … Continue reading
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On belonging and membership
Recently some pastors were challenged by my description of how my former church handled membership. As a “covenant community†church there was no “voting†on membership. You became a member of the congregation by entering into covenant with the congregation … Continue reading
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How to turn your thesis (dissertation, D.Min. project) into a book
In the past two weeks I’ve had three conversations with people wanting to “learn how to write.†In a future blog I may compile some thoughts about that since the conversation comes up regularly (and the other day, a former … Continue reading
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The enduring concepts
I recently had a conversation with a couple of professors from other seminaries about our Christian education (C.E.) curriculum at BTSR. One was in the midst of creating an M.A. program in religious education and the other was in the … Continue reading
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