The Syndication Syndicate

Thursday, August 20, 2015

5 Habits I’d Look for If I Was Hiring a Small Group Pastor

Source: 5 Habits I’d Look for If I Was Hiring a Small Group Pastor A long-term pattern of doing life in authentic community. A habit of identifying, recruiting and developing high capacity leaders of leaders. A pattern of making heroes of others. A habit of focusing on the end in Read more...

Nine Thoughts for Pastors Who Are Considering Quitting - ThomRainer.com

I got this in an email from Thom Rainer. Below is a link where you can sign up for his mailing list. #9 is the one most often on my radar. As a pastor, what thought keeps you "never lacking in zeal, but keep your spiritual fervor, serving the Lord."? Many storms pass quickly. I can remember Read more...

Wednesday, August 19, 2015

Father's Day Rant: Death to Bored!

Father's day is coming up. Call me the old guy...but I just had this conversation this morning. "I'm bored!" "You can't be. Only boring people are bored. You're not a boring person." Maybe this video wouldn't have helped my cause. Rant on! Watch Death to Bored Read more...

How Receiving from God Helps Defeat Our Narcissism

I regularly hear some Christian leaders say, “We live in a self-centered, narcissistic age and that has to be driven out of the church. All anyone thinks about is ‘what’s in it for me. That is not how Jesus thought and we should not think that way either.” I agree that we should not Read more...

Saturday, May 9, 2015

10 free images from Maui - Underwaterscapes - Set 1

These are images we've taken on our 20th Anniversary trip to Maui in April 2015. We took them to use in our own design projects like backdrops, marketing, viral images and viral videos. My wife and I want to these available for your projects as well, so we put the Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0

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