From the monthly archives:

November 2007

Moving Away From Top-Down Church Leadership

by Rhett Smith on November 20, 2007

I’ve been thinking a lot about leadership in Church, especially leadership in the

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Crawling to the finish line with a broken leg

by Rhett Smith on November 15, 2007

I like to run….I’ve run a couple of marathons. That takes some determination. But this girl, crawling across the cross country finish line with a broken leg is unbelievably courageous. Wow! I don’t know if I would have ever been that determined. Here is the ESPN Story on Claire. Here is the video. Watch at [...]

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Last night with Rob Bell

by Rhett Smith on November 14, 2007

Last night, my wife and 14 others went to see Rob Bell speak at the The God’s Aren’t Angry Tour in Los Angeles at the Wiltern. I can’t think of any other events or venues that I have ever been to where the speaker (Rob Bell) has his name out on the marquee, next to [...]

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The title of this post, and the article below is John Mark Reynolds. It’s really great, and I wanted to post the whole thing. I agree with him. Social networking, as big as a proponent of it as I am, it does not replace being with a person in the flesh. It can help us [...]

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Last night my wife and I watched the 60 Minutes episode The Millennials Are Coming. Here is the link to the video on CBS: The Millennials Are Coming Below is an excerpt of the 60 Minute interview about Zappos Hey, I know that every generation has been criticized for something. And the “millennials” are definitely [...]

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The Christian Post reflects on the conference

by Rhett Smith on November 12, 2007

Here’s a good write up from the GodblogCon conference this last week in The Christian Post. Here is an excerpt about my session: Thus, the demographic that would benefit most from a strong Christian presence in the new media is America’s youth, according to a college group leader. While pastors only get a few hours [...]

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Some quick thoughts about my time at GodblogCon

by Rhett Smith on November 12, 2007

As you probably already know (since I posted a lot about it on Thursday) I attended and spoke at GodblogCon. I had a great time: First, I learned a lot about some new technology and the new media; Second, there was great conversation, especially at round table discussions about the new media and its impact [...]

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Podcast of my talk and some other thoughts..

by Rhett Smith on November 8, 2007

You can hear the podcast of my talk here at Scriptorium Daily. Painful to listen to one’s self….ugh. Do I sound like that? I wish I could practice this talk a few times over and over before I give it again. And if you are wondering about some of my random ramblings (i.e. my daughter [...]

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Done with my talk….

by Rhett Smith on November 8, 2007

I finished my talk at about 2:05pm. I thought it went well, but is one of those things where when you are done you wish you had said this or that. Or had a chance to do it a couple of times. But there was good discussion and questions during the talk and I’ve had [...]

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Caution on what you write

by Rhett Smith on November 8, 2007

“When I think about hiring someone and they have a blog, I’ll read 6 months of their archives.” Word to the wise: be careful what you put on your myspace! Matt Mullenweg who is the WordPress originator. Interview is from Boundless Line Godblogcon, Facebook-MySpace

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