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      • The Occasional Update: I'm Confabulous, Thanks for Asking
        05/16/08
        Starting tomorrow, I will be in Tampa for a national Lutheran campus ministry conference called the "Confabulation".

        Image: Road Confabulation by Taylor Family Project at Flickr

        When you google "confabulation", the first hit you get is a Wikipedia article th

      • Marketing the Church: You're not talking
        05/16/08
        Early on in my career as a vicar and campus minister at the University of Florida, I learned my first lesson in marketing the church. That lesson is this: I'm not nearly as effective as you are.

        Image: Day 157 - Shhh... by Clarity25 at Flickr

        I'm a pastor. I get pa

      • Marketing the Church: What do you give away?
        05/13/08
        As a campus minister, I soon learned that one area of branding that just about every campus ministry gets into is "freebies."

        Image: Racetrackblog.com

        I have given away silicone bracelets, water bottles, frisbees, magnets, etc. Every time they carried my "bran

      • Podcast: Holy Trinity Sunday
        05/13/08
        The readings for the Sunday of the Holy Trinity are:

        Image: Two Hearts Design

        Genesis 1:1-2:4
        Psalm 8
        II Corinthians 13:11-13
        Matthew 28:16-20


        I don't preach this week...but I sort of wish I did with readings like these...

      • Podcast: You don't have an answering machine? For real?
        05/08/08
        I am the pastor of a small Lutheran congregation. As such, we don't have some things that big Lutheran congregations have like lighted signs and enough money to blow on anything we please...

        Image: 0228082245 by rbatina at Flickr

        But we do have an answering machine. It&#

      • Marketing the Church: 8 Words
        05/08/08
        Two of Seth Godin's recent posts talked about "4 words" that should be at the heart of every effective marketing campaign. "Make big promises; overdeliver" and "Connect like minded people"

        Image: Connect4 by Banalities at Flickr


        Technic

      • Currents: Spiritual Water...and not the kind you're thinking of...
        05/06/08
        When Jesus said "On the last day of the feast, the great day, Jesus stood up and cried out, “If anyone thirsts, let him come to me and drink. 38 Whoever believes in me, as the Scripture has said, ‘Out of his heart will flow rivers of living water.’” in John 7 (oddly one of this week's Bibl

      • Podcast: Lutheran Lectionary - Pentecost Sunday
        05/05/08
        I just posted the readings for Pentecost Sunday. I included the alternate readings as well.

        Image: Tongues of fire Acts 2:3 by Akuman1 at Flickr

        I do this partially to familiarize myself with speaking the words of the reading outloud, but I hope that you get something out of

      • Emerging Lutheran: Churches No Longer "Non Profits"
        05/05/08
        Earlier today in Tallahassee there was a Conference for Excellence in Nonprofit Management & Leadership. I wasn't invited.

        Image: RSVP/ASAP by hollyjlynn at Flickr

        Don't get me wrong, I probably wouldn't have gone if I had been invited. The topics didn'

      • Currents: Self Promotion, Tom Waits, NIN, and the Church
        05/05/08
        For those of you who know my wildly variant and extremely eclectic taste in music, you know that the musical chaos of Tom Waits is something that I enjoy from time to time. I'm not saying you're going to like Tom. You probably won't. That's either because you're a heathen

      • Emerging Lutheran: Glad I'm a Lutheran
        05/04/08
        Tonight I went to an "emerging" church with "emerging" in its name (how very un-emerging) with my guitar guy from University Lutheran here in Tallahassee. The name of the place was "Element 3: An Emerging Church In Tallahassee." After sitting through their worship ser

      • Sermons: Who have you been given?
        05/04/08
        In John 17 Jesus asks God the Father to protect those who have been given to Jesus. It seems a little odd at first that Jesus would only be asking that some might be protected, not all. But perhaps Jesus was modeling His kingdom for us, a kingdom in which we minister to those whom we have been giv

      • Emerging Lutheran: Pop church
        05/03/08
        I honestly can't remember the first place that I ran across the term "Emerging Church." My feeling is that it was in Robert Webber's Ancient-Future books, but I can't be sure. I do remember that I started getting interested in the movement about two years ago, and remain a

      • Podcast: Playboy Energy Drink
        05/01/08
        In the most recent podcast I talk about muddying your brand and letting noise into your brand.

        Image: BeverageWorld.com

        Churches muddy their brand when they pair themselves with unchurch things, just like Playboy Energy Drink muddies Playboy's brand by associating it wit

      • The Occasional Update: Don't Run Out of Fuel
        05/01/08
        This past February my power went out because a small plane had crashed in Tallahassee and taken out some major power line arteries.

        Image: Tallahassee Democrat

        Today the Tallahassee Democrat reported that the pilot was embarrassed because the reason for the crash was that he

      • Currents: Scott Weiland in Jail Again - What if this were about Paul?
        05/01/08
        I have always wondered what it would be like if Rolling Stone wrote about the Apostle Paul. It may come out something like their most recent article on heroin-afficionado and frontman for Stone Temple Pilots (getting back together with hopes of a tour), Scott Weiland.

        Image: RollingStone

      • Podcast: Acts 5 and the Lectionary Podcast
        05/01/08
        A few things/links regarding what is now my TWO podcasts.


        Image: DSC0808 by dreiche at Flickr

        Acts 5 and Wholeness
        + The conference I was at was LeadNow/Fusion put on by Rightnow.org

        + There are various "Living Water Project" organizations, but

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