“Can we please read one more story daddy?” She said with a sweet little voice.
“Maybe this afternoon baby”, I said, “but we have to go to school now so let’s pack up”.

“Ok, (anticipatory giggles from a very cute four year old) I just love these stories.” She says with one last big eyed look that said “please daddy” without saying “please daddy”.

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Just this week as I walked outside with my little girl she darted across the yard, grabbed on of the last remaining dandelions in the yard and yanked it out of the ground.

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I hope that you will consider joining me this year at the Outreach Convention in San Diego.
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My friend Kevin has written a great little book called Addition by Adoption: Kids, Causes & 140 Characters.Love, laughter and lunacy in 140 characters that I think you would love.

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When I wrote the book “200 Pomegranates and an audience of One” I had a few people in mind as I typed every letter. In fact the book starts with one of those people, my wife, and her role as a Mom.

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This week we had a huge task presented to our team.  Take six 45 minute weekend messages and cut them down to scripts for much more conversational 15 minute small group videos.  Sounds easy right.
What would you start with?  MP3 of the weekend or maybe even a video?  How about the Pastor’s notes?
All of those could be helpful, but what if you had every one of the approximately 7,500 words spoken in a 23 page script.  You would know that if 7500 words equals 45 minutes then 2500 words or 7 pages would equal 15 minutes. Better place to start isn’t it?
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I think it was close to two years ago I first got wind that Mars Hill Church was creating a “social networking” tool.
Had it not been for my great respect for the mission and vision of Mars Hill Church I probably would have thought that it was just another “Facebook” for churches.  I have seen a lot of those.  Its not that they are bad, its just that we already have Facebook, we dont need one for our church and especially not one for Christians to hide away in.
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My friend Carlos linked to this video a few weeks ago.
I respect the artist’s point of view.  He has every right to an opinion.
But it got me thinking and I wrote this as a response.

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I recently had an email question about how we transition from video back to live at the end of our messages in Seacoast’s 13 campuses.

The transition from video teaching back to live elements is one of the most important transitions that we make in our service.

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In 2009 I wrote a series of posts on the “10 Commandments of a Weekend Experience”. As we draw near to Easter Weekend I thought that we could revisit these to make sure we are ready for guests…

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