The Amazing Race: Mildura

A few weeks ago, while I was in Australia, we hosted a church Amazing Race teen activity. It was a great blast and a lot of work. We had three video cameras present and we tried to get as much of the race on film as possible. The final product is featured below for your enjoyment. I have also supplied the rest of our meager "designs" for you to look at too. This was the envelope design. We printed directly onto envelopes. It wasn't difficult to make. Just use all caps, a black or thick bold font and mess with the letter height percentages in any Adobe program. These were our clues. We printed them in black and white for sake of saving money on color, but I designed them in color. It was pretty easy. Just a bunch of rounded-corner boxes...

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Free Book: Simple Church Giveaway

We are giving away one free copy of Dr. Thom Rainer's book Simple Church. Recently I wrote and article about the book. Check it out here if you haven't read it yet. This giveaway ends next Saturday, August 11, 2012 at Midnight Eastern Time. Just enter in the widget below. Like us on Facebook, Follow us on Twitter, or post a Tweet to get extra entries. Then make sure you share this giveaway on Facebook (the widget should prompt you) to get an additional entry for each one of your friends that clicks your link....

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Review of "Simple Church"

A few weeks ago, it was suggested that I read Dr. Thom Rainer's book Simple Church. I acquired the book as well as an extra copy (for a giveaway starting tomorrow). By the authors' own admission, the book is "a nerdy research project" (243). What I found most humorous was shortly after that statement they write: "Normal people don't read church research books on vacation. We do. But we are not normal." And where was I when I was reading this book? On a plane on vacation. To that, the authors write "Welcome to the club." However, don't let that give you hesitation. The book is a extremely practical church statistic book. The authors never meant it to sit on your shelf next to your church philosophy books and counseling books that you reference...

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End Times Timelines

So where have I been the past month or so? Why haven't I been posting? Well the simple answer is I've been busy. The more detailed one is that I've been in two 2-week long intensive seminary classes as well as Australia for 3 weeks. You've received a few updates here or there about some design work that I have done in the process. You might remember my post about the common take on Jude 22 "Making a Difference" being the wrong approach. You also might remember my Men's Conference Flyer for Murray River Baptist Church. Well this is another one of those sort of posts. I'm currently in, and about to finish up, the book of Daniel in a Seminary class. Two of our class projects were to create a chart revolving around the Four Kingdoms of Daniel...

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