What If Your Facebook Was a BOOK?

Check out this video to create your facebook BOOK:

How Do You Get Things Done When There's Too Much To Do?

I often find myself caught in the struggle between completing tasks (ex. answering emails, phones calls, team meetings, etc.) and carving out quality time to think through big creative projects (ex. sermon writing, future planning, problem solving, etc.)

Here is a great article to help wade through the overwhelming amount of work:

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A World of Tweets

Curious about how many tweets are posted and where those tweets are posted? How about in real time?

How about viewing that in a 3D view?

Wow!

Click here to check out 'A World of Tweets'

Why Halloween Is Now the #2 Holiday

Great insights from Seth Godin's post about Halloween.

Halloween is arguably the #2 holiday behind Christmas.

Seth suggests that it is becoming more popular in recent years because Halloween is filling a void; a need that people have.  And companies looking to create happiness and make a profit are rushing in to fulfill that need.

What do you think that void is?

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My thoughts:

* Halloween is a great excuse to dress up and pretend to be someone else.

* You get to meet a diverse group of people than you would typically see in your normal day.

* You get to meet your neighbors - some that you haven't talked to for a year.

* Who doesn't like getting free candy?  It's not about eating all of it: it's the thrill dumping out the bag at the end of the night and finding the really good candy.  Bits-O-Honey, Mary Jane and an Oatmeal-Creme-Pie (yes you read that right...someone was handing them out!) were at the top of my list!

* Halloween is a great way to see how creative people can get.

Be not Do

I know I fall into the trap thinking that the more activity I do, the more personal growth I will experience.

It doesn't make sense: more activity should equal more personal satisfaction and growth.

But it doesn't work that way.

It's the difference between running on a treadmill and running in a race.

The treadmill takes energy, but leads nowhere.

The race takes focused energy and the ending is rewarding.

The more treadmills we have, the more tireder we get.

Especially in the church world.

Read Will Mancini's excellent post for churches here:

Tyranny of More

Expectations of a Pastor

This is an interesting post about how Christians who view their needs above the Pastor's needs are literally sucking the life out of their Pastor.

Christian Consumers

I think it comes down to what a congregation expects of a Pastor. A congregation needs to be honest and upfront about their expectations of their Pastor. And the Pastor needs to be upfront about his expectations of the church. This is a continual dialogue with hopefully a happy medium and tremendous clarity.