Well, I have done one final update of the Who Are These Guys blog. Now the url makes sense (www.whoaretheseguyspodcast.com) and I fixed some back end stuff that was making things difficult. Wow, but the feeds and all that are still the same, and the blog now has sweet web players for the podcast to play through and stats and all kinds of fun stuff.
From the monthly archives:
May 2007
Just posted an article on the newly revamped “Who Are These Guys” blog about how Feedburner can help you connect your ministry blog to your people: Here is the intro:
“If you have ever had to explain what an RSS feed is to a person in your church, then you know that a lot of people don’t know WHAT they are, WHY they are helpful, and HOW to read/subscribe to them.”
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Well, the Who Are These Guys blog has just been seriously updated. A whole new rad look (which really makes this blog look sad), and a new web player for the podcast, and the same feeds.
We need to give the podcast a shock to the heart to get our rhythm back, but the blog is rocking!
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Endurance is certainly not something we like to have tested. Unless you are one of the weird-os that loved Cross County and running around in embarrassingly short shorts. Today the whole pace of life is fast, instant, on demand, live. Fast food feels to slow; we can’t fast forward through the commercials with our Tivo soon enough, even the search engines on our computers now does a live search as we type the letters in cause we can’t wait to get to the result. The current pace of life is hurried and blindingly fast, and that is why times that require strong endurance can quickly knock us off our feet. James 1:2-4 is one of the passages that consistently gives my attitude and heart a hard kick in the pants. James 1:2-4 (NLT) Many times I am praying for God to do this, and do that, and to take away hardship. When in reality I am asking God to take away the teaching and testing I need to be ready for anything. But the phrase that has caught my eye today is in verse 3, “…, your endurance has a chance to grow.” When our faith is tested, meaning when our life can’t be lived in our own power – by choice or situation, there is “a chance” for our endurance to grow. It is not automatic. The growth ties back into our attitude of Joy in the midst of trouble. I have definitely done this wrong. Several troubles or hardships that I have gone through, I have done the mumbling and grumbling. I have gossiped, I have talked behind people’s backs, I have had the wrong attitude, and it was certainly not a time of Joy. I think when you remove Joy you remove the opportunity to grow because when you are complaining and grumbling you have given up. You have given into letting an event, situation or person control you. Instead of deciding to have an attitude of Joy, I have given over to the worse case scenario of life lived in my own power. An attitude of Joy can really only come from fully trusting that God is in control, AND that he is faithful and good at being in control of our lives. This thought reminds me of a quote from David Allen author of Getting Things Done, “The better you get, the better you better get.” He is speaking about that in terms of personal productivity and the corporate world, but how much could that easily apply to the building of our faith and endurance? So what does it take for God to slow us down and teach us endurance? Well it takes Joy on our part, and it takes a peace that only comes from trusting in God with abandon. With abandon … hmm that sounds risky…
“2 Dear brothers and sisters, whenever trouble comes your way, let it be an opportunity for joy.
3 For when your faith is tested, your endurance has a chance to grow.
4 So let it grow, for when your endurance is fully developed, you will be strong in character and ready for anything.”
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I am reading a really cool book called “Peter Drucker: The Great Pioneer of Management Theory and Practice by Robert Heller. It is awesome because it is a broad stroke look at the life of Drucker, and all his thoughts and principles of leadership and management. Not a lot of fluff, just all the good stuff.
Anyways, I came across a great little tidbit on the eight perspectives Drucker asserted a good manager needed to maintain in order to keep producing results. Here they are:
Producing Results Rests on these Eight Perceptions
1. Resources and results exist outside, not inside, the business
2. Results come from exploiting opportunities, not solving problems.
3. For results, resources must go to opportunities, not to problems
4. “Economic results” do not go to minor players in a given market, but to leaders
5. Leadership (in a given market), however, is not likely to last
6. What exists is getting old
7. What exists is likely to be mis allocated (i.e., the first 10 percent of effort produces 90 percent of the results
8. To achieve economic results, concentrate.
All stuff I had never seen before, and that I think is helpful in ministry or wherever!
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