by Rhett Smith on October 17, 2008
Ben Witherington has really outdone himself this time, with one of the most thorough book reviews I have come across of Rob Bell and Dan Golden’s new book, Jesus Wants to Save Christians: A Manifesto for the Church in Exile. I’m a huge “fan” of Rob Bell’s teachings and writings, and have even had the [...]
by Rhett Smith on September 20, 2008
I walked into the convention center today and saw this sign sitting at the front of the bookstore next to our book. Very cool, but pretty surreal seeing it next to books by Guy Kawasaki, Tim Ferriss, etc. Especially since I only have a chapter in the book, and it’s not a whole book I [...]
by Rhett Smith on August 21, 2008
Just wrote my first blog post over at our book blog for The New Media Frontier. My chapter is New Media Ministry to the Myspace-Facebook Generation: Employing New Media Technologies Effectively In Youth Ministries. And the following is some of the framework I laid out in the chapter. It’s hard to keep up on the [...]
by Rhett Smith on May 23, 2008
Clay Shirky in Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations (pp. 29-30) Running an organization is difficult in and of itself, no matter what its goals. Every transaction it undertakes—every contract, every agreement, every meeting—requires it to expend some limited resource: time, attention, or money. Because of these transaction costs, some sources of [...]
by Rhett Smith on May 16, 2008
It’s funny how some words become commonplace in a community or culture. As a resident of Los Angeles you hear a lot of talk about “sex” and “sushi.” It seems that these are two things that Angelenos highly esteem. So when I came across the book, “Sex, Sushi & Salvation: Thoughts on Intimacy, Community, & [...]
by Rhett Smith on April 10, 2008
This hits too close to home…yikes. Jesus Wants to Save Christians A Manifesto for the Church in Exile by Rob Bell and Don Golden There is a church not too far from us that recently added a $25 million addition to their building. Our local newspaper ran a front-page story not too long ago about [...]
by Rhett Smith on March 12, 2008
Just posted at Leadership Network on the book, The Starfish and the Spider: The Unstoppable Power of Leaderless Organizations. This is a really amazing book. I was nodding my head throughout, both nervous and excited about the future of leadership. Nervous because it involves a lot of changes. Excited, because the changes need to be [...]
by Rhett Smith on December 7, 2007
It’s been about 17 days since I last posted anything, but that’s because the last 17 days have been crazy, tiring and very exciting. A lot of great things have been happening to me personally, and a lot of great things have been happening with our ministry. Here’s a run down to catch you up [...]
