A post to the Baptist section:
A post to the Baptist section: “Baptist, other Christian leaders call for prayer as war begins”
Month: March 2003
Baptist, other Christian leaders call for prayer as war begins
From Associated Baptist Press: The morning after U.S. forces initiated bomb and missile attacks on Iraqi targets, Baptists and other Christian leaders in the United States reacted with calls to prayer for a swift end to the war and minimal death and suffering associated with it. Some of the leaders intermingled their appeals for prayer with continued criticism of the Continue Reading
News – Statement on War in Iraq from CBF Coordinator Daniel Vestal
As I connected to cbfonline to look up the location of Smith/Helyws publishers, (Atlanta area, I discovered), I saw this news item. Click the above link to read the entire statement from CBF Cordinator: “The overwhelming sense many people have about this war is sadness and confusion. Why is there not the leadership to build consensus among nations to remove Continue Reading
Four Months and Hopefully Not Counting
Yesterday, the first day of spring, also marked the end of the fourth month of unemployment. I am hoping to get a Web project that will provide some temporary income, but also hope that I can use the project to add to my portfolio and develop some functioanlity that I can re-use in the development of Church Webs, including one Continue Reading
March Madness and Seeking Hope for the Future
As the CBS NCAA basketball coverage comes on TV, I am in a very different place than in the March Madness days of the last 10 years. I did not fill out a bracket, and have watched far less coverage (save for the Kentucky game, although I was on the computer the whole time, looking at resources for planning and estimating Continue Reading
Web development contributes to Church Mission
If I can make a go of an upcoming Web project, and renew some efforts to add new features to a Church Web for which I have found little time to go beyond mere “updates”, there may be a “synergy” that can happen by applying some of the “code” used for one business Web project to enhance the features of Continue Reading
A renewed thesis: Opportunities for the Church in Online Community
I have been thinking about the Doctorate of Ministry (aka DMin) program that started me on this “Church and the Web” vocational journey. I had completed all the steps save the final project back in the Spring of 1997, just prior to my moving to Nashville to work fulltime. I regret having abandoned that program, but I was consumed in Continue Reading
Engaging the Church Audience
This morning, as I am doing a search on Google for anything David Siegel might have said, written, done since the publishing of Futurize Your Enterprise, which was the first book I read which forwarded the idea that was made famous by The Cluetrain Manifesto: that “markets are conversations”, and that we “capture customers” as people and not eyeballs or Continue Reading
What to do this first day of Spring
My to do list: Work to nail down specific sections and features of the proposed site for friend’s home business. Seek to renew and activate some web site strategies for church, and seek a redesign and strategize for activating and caring for community building via the Site Look/pray/seek a way to make a pilgrimage to Washington to visit: Sojourners and Bob, Church Continue Reading
Kentucky Number One
My Pro Football Team (Tennessee Titans) and College Basketball Team (Kentucky Wildcats) overcame slow starts to finish extremely strong (Titans from 1-4 to 11-5 and AFC Championship Game) and Kentucky from 6-3 and a sound thrashing by Louisville to 29-3 and a perfect 16-0 SEC record and an SEC Tournament victory (even the ’96 team didn’t win the tourney, being Continue Reading
From the Big Easy to the Harsh Reality
On the way to pick us (my Dad, older brother and myself) from the airport (returning from New Orleans — see previous post) , some lady was backing down an exit ramp and my Mom , just entering the exit ramp, couldn’t avoid her, and rammed her. My Mom sustained a hopefully slight neck injury (she gets an MRI tomorrow, Continue Reading
Back from the Big Easy
Every year since 1997 (and also in 1993), I’ve attended, with my Dad and two brothers, the SEC Men’s Basketball Tournament (all of us are Kentucky fans, since we all went to high school and college in Kentucky — college at Murray State). This year it was in New Orleans, and I just got back. It was a much needed Continue Reading
Another scare
I had my second prostate biopsy this past Monday. Today I got back the good word: Negative. This is one time when negative is positive. The one I had previously was back in September 2001, and I got back that negative result on Sept.11. There was a day when I was grateful for life in a new way, and all Continue Reading
Where in the heck is God calling me to?
I have been working on myself since yesterday’s corporate Dear John letter from a prospective employer, telling myself that this was not what I’m after, even though the atmosphere was great, the company was/is doing great. It would not be what I’ve been getting called to these past 10 years. It’s just that now does not seem to be a Continue Reading
Blog-like fragments in email
After sleeping in about two hours later (to make up for the 2 hours I was up between 2:45am and 4:45), I got up, made a cup of green tea (I’ve been doing Green tea most mornings to cut down on coffee), and wrote a reply to Ken, who had written last night. I ended up doing a bit of Continue Reading