Link-a-licious

• I'm thinking of doing a message series sometime called "Mind Blowing Mysteries of the Bible." Love those satellite photos of a possible ark on a mountain in Turkey...
• There's a new magazine out called GOOD. I like new magazines. I miss George. Anyone else remember that one? r.i.p.
• I'm convinced that people only really and truly believe in a ministry when they've discovered Christ in that ministry.  Just look at Young Life...
• So if people don't like the name Christmas, why don't we just tilt the X into a cross and go with "+mas"? Call it "Crossmas." =)
• Someone produced a documentary about their visit to TED conference. At $6,000 a ticket, let's face it... this is as close as you're going to get.
• Do you have any dangerous ideas? Maybe they're just dangerous to you. As Garrison Keillor said, "Give up your good Christian life, and follow Christ."
• Ainsley and I now have dueling iPhones. I used my $100 Apple credit and gas reimbursements from monthly commutes to Richmond to make her Christmas.
• Whiteboard violates a lot of conference protocol. It's only one day. We're giving 8 headliners just 30 minutes. No breakouts (those are for people who don't read ; ). It's going to be stripped. As far as conferences go, it's blue ocean, so you can't compare it. You either get it or you don't.
• Who in the world is the person behind Granger's creativity? I'd love to meet 'em.
• Enjoyed a free Sunday morning yesterday as RCC took the week off. Ains and I grabbed Starbucks and drove around Northern Virginia looking at the parking lots and entrances of church plants. Is that weird?
• Saw the Loudoun County video venue campus of Mclean Bible Church, which is the weekday home of Prison Fellowship. Holy stinking cow, did they get the deal of the century or what? PF headquarters is like a southern plantation with plenty of parking and large meeting space. Kudos to Mike Hurt. Score.
• Spent the afternoon with the very first "person of peace" who helped us start our parachute drop History Church. "Kath" is now married to Ed Siu, living in Raleigh, NC, attending the Summit. She's a very special person to Ains and me.
• We got to see the second person who helped us start History Church on Christmas Eve, Anthony Hoang, his wife Bethany and his new little son Beckham. What a treat.

Comments

[Jon]

There was a nice article in the LA Times last year that talked about the founder of Good Magazine...here's the link http://www.latimes.com/features/magazine/west/la-tm-goldhirsh30jul23,0,3430054.story?coll=la-home-headlines

[Mike Hurt]

Thanks for the kind words regarding our new campus in Loudoun County. We are fired up about the opportunity God has given us in Loudoun. We are also thrilled with the facility and our partnership with Prison Fellowship.

[Mike Anderson]

The person who is in charge of communications at Granger is Kem Meyer (http://kemmeyer.typepad.com/) I think she is largely responsible for their ability to take such creative leaps.

[Ben Arment]

I meant service programming...