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Tomorrow Jennifer and I will host our 12th Annual Steinbrueck Oktoberfest. What started as a church small group activity in our first apartment back when we were newlyweds, has grown into an epic party that tests the capacity of our average-sized home. One year I think we topped 150 people.
While I love hosting Oktoberfest and have a great time every year, there is one thing I really hate about it.
But first let me tell you what I love about it and why we do it.
In The Careless Society John McKnight takes a look at the service economy in the United States and how its rise has led to the decline in community. But the real gem in this book is the last chapter titled “Christian Service.” It rocked my world by proposing a revolutionary alternative to serving others.
Pollster and author George Barna posted a thought-provoking article this morning on the health care reform debate going on in the U.S. He takes a look at how Americans want to address…
Yesterday sucked! Some of it was circumstances – lunch went long, an interview went long. And then there was the technical problem I was trying to resolve. After spending 2 hours implementing…
Tomorrow – 9/9/09 – at 9:09 AM CDT Leadership Network and Catalyst are hosting a FREE online Christian leadership conference called “The Nines.” Promo video, details, speaker list. Are you participating? Who or what are you looking forward to?
This weekend I read Fearless: Imagine Your Life Without Fear, the latest book by Max Lucado. We certainly live in an era of fear. Every day the news is filled with stories…
I never much cared for hell. The idea of a loving God sending people to a place of eternal punishment always sounded overly-harsh and inconsistent with the character of a God who loves us enough to create us and sacrifice his Son for us. Then I read Notes from the Tilt-a-Whirl in which N.D. Wilson explains hell in a way that totally rocked my world…
In Notes from the Twilt-a-Whirl, author N.D. Wilson takes the reader on a ride befitting the title… I found it to be thought provoking and yet thoroughly fun to read. Kind of a Donald Miller meets C.S. Lewis. Not many people can cite the philosophies Nietzsche, Plato, C.S. Lewis, and David Hume in a way that is not only understandable to the average reader but interesting and even entertaining.
Last night my church gathered together for the last of our Wednesday worship services. We watched a video teaching by Louie Giglio called How Great is Our God. In it Louie tried…
Tomorrow, August 6 the 2009 edition of the Willow Creek Association Leadership Summit begins. For the 3rd consecutive year, I’ll be blogging my notes live here on LiveIntentionally.org and I’ll be tweeting it up too.