Amazon.com offers a way for individuals and organizations (commercial or not) to open up their own aStores. These aStores are user-created bookstores stocked with content we want to push. In my case I’ve added books to categories I’m most likely to discuss here on the blog- anything from photography to cooking to Christianity. When you...
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So what happens when we start looking at our networks for Malcolm Gladwell’s three personalities?
In The Tipping Point, Gladwell offers three uniquely important types of people in the spread of ideas. They comprise the Law of the Few. “The success of any kind of social epidemic is heavily dependent on the involvement of people with...
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In 2005 I read an article by David Britt from Harvie Conn’s Planting and Growing Urban Churches. Britt discussed what he refers to as the congruence theory. Within any setting you’ll find different individuals. From a distance these individuals often create a singular demographic, psychographic, or ethnographic. When you look at the individuals up close,...
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with truth, yeah? Seems like the thing to do.
The other night, my friend Justin preached Ephesians 6 to the college and singles group at my old church. I was there, and I appreciated his willingness to discuss such an under-appreciated topic as spiritual warfare. I didn’t ask him to, but when he visits me in...
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I would imagine, then, that the repentance we are called to is about choosing one audience over another. Jesus says many times in the gospel that He knows the heart of man, and the heart of man does not have the power to give glory. I think Jesus is saying, Look, you guys...
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