Paris Hilton’s favorite Bible verse…
Posted by admin in culture on Jun 28th, 2007 | 0 comments“Ummm….I really don’t have one.”
I couldn’t resist.
If you’re ever in Southern California…
Posted by admin in culture, spirituality on Jun 23rd, 2007 | 0 comments
Try out a great sushi bar in Del Mar named Matsu Gawa. Except for my hand cramping because I don’t know how to use chopsticks that well, the food was super fresh and the portions were large.
We took some clients out for dinner at Chart House, just south of Del Mar. The view was amazing (Sorry, no pics.) We made reservations through the Hilton and they made arrangements for the best table in the place and our menus had my bosses’ name at the top…”Jeff and Susan Sanders party”. Pretty cool.
Last night we ended up going to Carlsbad to eat at a Mexican restaurant. We weren’t about to fight the traffic headed to San Diego for the Padres game. Hey, we live in Atlanta and we’re not stupid, OK?
Anyway, it was a great trip that paid off big time for our marketing department. Hope to see most of you at church tomorrow.
Trials and tribulations of the flip flop tribe
Posted by admin in culture on Jul 19th, 2005 | 3 commentsI am of the flip flop tribe. I value the air flowing freely over my feet as the flip and flop of my onomatopoeiaic footwear carry me to wherever I am appointed to go.
I do, however, wonder if the girls of Northwestern’s championship lacrosse team used proper White House edicate by wearing flip flops when they visited the President. I love my flip flops as much as anyone in my tribe, but there’s just something about meeting the President of the United States in flip flops that awkwardly straddles the gap between fashion edge and White House edicate.
I am torn. What would I do? If I were asked to visit the White House and meet the President as part of a delegation of next generation pastors, would I revert to the suit, tie, and dress shoes of another life? Or, would I wear a nice shirt, khakis, and dress flip flops from ALDO? Instead of flip flops I think I might splurge and spring for a nice pair of slip-ons.
Nonetheless, I don’t fault the girls for being who they are. Worse fashion and edicate crimes have been committed. The people that are hurt the most are the girls’ mothers.
Click here for the AP story on the flip flop flap at the White House.
An incredible book I’m just now discovering…
Posted by admin in culture on Jan 28th, 2005 | 2 comments
OK, this book is four years old and all the really sharp and well informed people I know have heard about this book and many have read it. I must admit that I’ve been a bit behind the leadership learning curve the last couple of years. I seemed to have slacked off since I changed church cultures. Church plants don’t have too many stumps to plow around (And all of God’s people said, “Cool.”) I got lazy and in the meantime could have been a better leader. Thanks to my good friend Tony McCollum for getting me into a loop that is challenging me to be a better learner and leader…
No big review here, except that this is the best book on leadership I’ve read. I’m a big John Maxwell fan, but frankly this book is the best because it’s academically sound and built on empirical data. If seminaries don’t begin teaching tracks on leadership they’re going to keep churning out pastors that are preaching idiots.
Other books in the learning pipeline waiting to be read…The Tipping Point, The Five Temptations of a CEO, FOCUS; The future of your company depends on it, and The E Myth Revisited.
