Some great ones at Learning about “Take-Aways” A solid proposal at Philosophical Foundations of the Emergent Church Do you have a Stop Doing List? A brilliant marketing idea at More Starbucks Partnership…
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Resources at Thoughts of Resurrection
I am in my third year serving as a pastor and have developed some resources that I have found to be useful in ministry and may be useful for you. You can find them on the Resources page. I have increasingly been using Google Documents as a tool for ministry. It keeps all my things […]
The United Methodist Church of the Resurrection is part of the Kansas East Annual Conference which is a part of the South Central Jurisdiction of the United Methodist Church. The South Central Jurisdiction will have one fewer bishop beginning in 2012. The South Central College of Bishops wants to hear from you on the future […]
There seemed to have been a bubble of posts about internet campus in the blogosphere last week. Tech Tuesday: rethinking internet campuses Internet Church innovation… Can You Do Church Online? An internet campus? You can find a summary post of my thoughts on internet campus here. I watched the last of the test streams before […]
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The Greatest Words Ever Spoken
The Greatest Words Ever Spoken: Everything Jesus Said About You, Your LIfe, and Everything Else (link to Amazon) is the second book by Steven K. Scott. As described on the back cover, “For the first time ever, all the statements Jesus made in the New Testament have been brought together under more than two hundred […]
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Strategic Planning in the UMC
Does the itinerant system in the United Methodist Church work against strategic planning? I want to be an excellent strategic planner and have been thinking more about how this works in the United Methodist Church. I suggest that it is important to look at a strategic plan for several years into the future. I recognize […]
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Vibe – Two Weeks In
This past Sunday was the second week for the Vibe worship service at Resurrection. I have been a part of the planning team and will be in worship leadership there each week. The service is in the Student Center with the sermon on video, edgier music and the opportunity for more movement and experiential response […]
During my time at Resurrection, I have taken three trips to benchmark other churches. Bus trip with senior staff to Willow Creek and Granger Community Church North Coast Church and Rock Harbor in preparation for launch of the Vibe worship service LifeChurch.tv in preparation for launch of the internet campus. Each of these trips have […]
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Clinical Pastoral Education
I am currently taking Clinical Pastoral Education (CPE) at Saint Luke’s Hospital. I have received a lot of questions about it and wanted to take the opportunity to respond here. What is CPE? I would first commend a great wikipedia entry on clinical pastoral education to get an idea of the overall program design. Here […]
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Connection Drive
Today I want to offer you, the reader, an invitation to connection. Whether this is your first time to read Thoughts of Resurrection or you are a regular visitor, I invite you to connect with me in the following ways: Subscribe to Thoughts of Resurrection to automatically receive each new post, without having to check […]
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Difficult Conversations
Most if not all difficult conversations have similar patterns from which lessons can be learned to better engage in them. This is the basic assertion of the authors of Difficult Conversations: How to Discuss What Matters Most. From their website: Difficult Conversations: How to Discuss What Matters Most was developed over ten years of work […]
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Online Baptism
While reflecting on the sacraments for an internet campus several weeks ago, I wrote, “I am not willing to suggest that sacraments could be administered online or remotely in any way.” I had thought that this would be a common response for leaders in mainline congregations. I was wrong in at least one case. I […]
Rev. Andrew Conard 