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What to do? Two Rules to Live By – Seeing Gray (3 of 6)

I invite you to join the conversation for the sermon series Seeing Gray: Faith Morality and Politics in a Black and White World at Resurrection: Post your video responses or opinions at the Seeing Gray YouTube Channel. Join the conversation with Adam Hamilton around the topics in this series. Week 3 – Invitation Week 3 […]

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2008 Guest Bloggers

In 2008, I would like to include a regular feature of guest posts. One or two times a month, I hope to invite someone to write a post here at Thoughts of Resurrection. If the guest is also a blogger, I hope to be able to write a guest post for that person as well. […]

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life ministry

P.S. I Love You and Marriage Counseling

Last Friday, Nicole and I went to see P.S. I Love You at the theater. Fridays are our day off and it was Nicole’s turn to pick the movie. Who did we see there, but Jason Gant and Jason Watson. They were off to see Alien v. Predator – Requiem – quite a different genre […]

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Leadership Institute at Annual Conferences

I have been able to be at the last two Leadership Institutes here at Resurrection. In 2007, I taught a session, which was a lot of fun. I want you to know about the opportunity to host Leadership Institute at your Annual Conference. You can download a PDF document with more information here. Are you […]

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Speedlinking – January 9, 2008

Lessons from T-Mobile’s support provides a great story of interaction from which many churches could learn. Seth Godin gives three simple ways to address solving problems. Lee LeFever from Common Craft has some great tips at 15 Lessons Learned in 2007. Whose life will you have an impact on in 2008? – inspirational hopes and […]

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worship

Preaching at Resurrection: A Whole New Year

I really enjoyed preaching at Resurrection on the weekend of December 29 / 30. I preached the evening services and my wife, Nicole, preached the morning services. Here is the video: What do you think? What was strong? What was weak? What could be improved? Permalink to Andrew’s sermon Permalink to Nicole’s sermon

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faith ministry

Bridges and Wedges – Seeing Gray (2 of 6)

I invite you to join the conversation for the sermon series Seeing Gray: Faith Morality and Politics in a Black and White World at Resurrection: Post your video responses or opinions at the Seeing Gray YouTube Channel. Join the conversation with Adam Hamilton around the topics in this series. Week 2 – Invitation Week 2 […]

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Where Faith and Politics Meet – Seeing Gray (1 of 6)

I invite you to join the conversation for the sermon series Seeing Gray: Faith Morality and Politics in a Black and White World at Resurrection: Post your video responses or opinions at the Seeing Gray YouTube Channel. Join the conversation with Adam Hamilton around the topics in this series. Week 1 – Invitation Week 1 […]

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The Orange Bowl and Life in Ministry

First off – Rock Chalk Jayhawk K-U! I watched the second half of the Orange Bowl last night and watched Kansas beat Virginia Tech 24-21. It was great to see a team from the state of Kansas win in a BCS bowl. Good times 🙂 There were amazing changes of momentum in the game from […]

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The United Methodist Way: A Convocation

At the last probationary residency meeting which I attended, we spent time discussing The United Methodist Way (PDF Document) which is a document that was used as a part of a gathering of bishops, district superintendents and other conference leaders at Lake Junaluska at the first of November. From the website: On November 9-11, 2007, […]

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church life

SportClips and Context

I have had trouble finding a place where I can get a good hair cut. Until now… I got my most recent haircut at SportClips and I will be going back. There were several things that the church could learn SportClips: Know your target audience For SportClips this is men who need to get a […]

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Reflections from Christmas Eve for a New Year

December 24, 2007 was a crazy and wonderful day. As we begin 2008, I want to share some of my reflections and learning just over one week later. Be ready for anything I received a mobile phone call around 8:45 AM from Connie, creative director of worship, that Adam was sick and would Nicole and […]