Posts filed under 'Blogging'
Books I have read: Obstacles Welcome
As part of the Thomas Nelson BookSneeze blogger programme I was given a copy of Obstacles Welcome: How to Turn Adversity Into Advantage in Business and in Life by Ralph De La Vega. I’m a fan of learning from business books and seeing how I can apply lessons both in life and my work in the faith community. This book written by Ralph de la Vega, president and CEO of AT&T Mobility and Consumer Markets is interesting in the way that it doesn’t just reflect on his experience as a businessman but also in his life journey. The book starts with how he arrived in America from Cuba, aged 10, all alone, separated from his parents by Cuban authorities just moments before they were to board a plane to Miami.
That moment defines his attitude to business, that no challenge is too big, be that his experience of trying to provide phones in the middle of major hurricanes, helping lead the internet development for residential homes for BellSouth, leading Latin America as one of the worst parts of the BellSouth business into a stronger more unified body, or overseeing the merger of Cingular Wireless and AT&T Wireless.
Whilst not a writer, and so at times the book doesn’t flow as well as it could, de la Vega writes an inspiring account that encourages me to meet head on the challenges I face both in life and work.
Add comment August 30, 2010
Top 20 youth ministry blogs of 2010
Youth Specialties have blogged on the top 20 youth ministry blogs of 2010:
Big congratulations to Ian at Youthblog for his truly global influence!
5 comments June 9, 2010
Apologies
Apologies for light blogging recently, I took time off during half-term to buy baby bits with Hannah in preparation for February, and then spoke at a youth weekend away and youth groups at TBC over the weekend, and I’m now at The Hayes Conference Centre for the Global Connections conference.
I’ve found the internet connection so I’m hoping that in the rare spare minutes I’ll be able to post on some of the sessions.
Add comment November 5, 2009
And we’re back
Last week we had an amazing youth camp, I’ve had a few days off, and am back into work tomorrow, so blogging will be gradually returning to normal.
Add comment September 2, 2009
Time for youth camp
Tomorrow is the start our summer youth camp, so blogging will be stopping for the week.
If you want to follow what we’re up to, check out http://twitter.com/youthtbc
Add comment August 21, 2009
Top 10 of the month: June
Here are the top 10 posts on my blog in June:
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Top 10 of the month: May
Here are the top 10 posts on my blog in May:
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Pastor pretends to be an atheist
Pastor Gets Caught Lying for Jesus is a worrying post. Pastor Chris Fox of Kendalls Baptist Church pretended to be an atheist under a variety of different names to show how immoral and stupid they supposedly were. It all back-fired and he was caught out.
However, the good end to this story is that Chris wrote a formal apology which has been accepted:
I want to express to you how deeply sorry I am for coming on this site and making the remarks I did and violating my own faith. It was out of bounds. I allowed the “debater” part of me go too far. I messed up and I have come to ask for your forgiveness. Thank you for allowing me back on.
Add comment March 22, 2009
Top 10 of the month: February
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Twittersheep
twittersheep is a great little site that creates a tag cloud of those following you. It takes the bio lines of your followers and makes it into a picture. Worth a quick look.
Add comment February 12, 2009
2008 … books
I’ve read and reviewed 34 books on the blog in 2008. Some of my favourite include:
- Convergence: The Spiritual Journey of a Charismatic Calvinist
- Choose the Life
- When Leadership and Discipleship Collide
- The Jesus of Suburbia
- Losing My Virginity – Richard Branson The Autobiography
One of my goals for 2009 is to increase my reading; I’m hoping to do 15 minutes per day theology, 15 minutes per day youth ministry and 15 minutes per day fiction/non-fiction. Maybe we’ll get closer to the 52 books.
1 comment January 1, 2009
1,500 Posts
This is it, the 1,500th post of this blog.
I started writing back in October 2006, I’ve had 20,235 views, and 382 comments, and amazingly over 32,688 spam comments. Thanks to all of you who’ve taken the time to read and comment, and I hope you enjoy the next 1,500 posts.
Add comment December 29, 2008
Off to Youthwork the Conference
I’m off to the Conference, so blogging will be non-existent for the next few days. Hopefully lots to share when I’m back.
Add comment November 20, 2008
Is blogging dead?
There’s been a lot in the blog world about how Twitter, Flickr, Facebook Make Blogs Look So 2004 according to Wired.
To be honest I’m not sure what to really make of it, I think blogging is good and I love the facility to reflect in a deeper way than you can do in a twitter or a facebook status, but I as I see my work seem to consistently increase, I’m struggling to gain consistency in blogging.
Mmmmm something to think through, what do others think?
2 comments November 11, 2008
The Stand
Tomorrow we’re off to The Stand so there will be less blogging this weekend, but more to catch up with after the weekend.
2 comments November 7, 2008
Top 10 of the month: October
As usual, here are the Top 10 posts of the month
And the Top 10 searches that led to this blog:
Add comment November 3, 2008
Theology and Ministry catch up from around the world
Here are some bits and pieces from around the world of theology and ministry:
- Praying for your enemies: John Stackhouse gives some principles for responding to another blog. (Thanks Scot McKnight)
- Paul Helm has recently been blogging on the issue of Creationism. He touches on the importance of Christians believing in creation, and gets into the debate in the UK on “creationism.” Go check it out here.
- Here is where you can find all the audio, video, and notes from the Desiring God Conference.
- Here is a recent interview of Rick Warren; I love the first question which is on why he no longer wears Hawaiian shirts!
- Justin Taylor writes on a recent talk from Carson on Five Trends in the Church Today
Add comment October 3, 2008
Adding Biblical content automatically to your website
Adrian posted on how you can add Bible content automatically:
For example, if I was to write John 3:16 or 1 Corinthians 1:1-3, a script now creates those neat pop-up windows. There is nothing to install as such, just a few lines of code to add to your template, or if you are using WordPress, as I think I would like to do soon, then you can install a plug-in and customize it. Apparently you can even change the look to match your site.
Pop over to Reftagger and you can get the whole thing set up in about five minutes or so.
Add comment October 3, 2008
Top 10 of the month: September
Top 10 posts from September:
Top 10 searches in September that led to here:
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Top 10 of the month: August
A couple of days late, and a slightly bizarre month of blogging, but here it is anyhow. Top 10 searches:
Top 10 posts:
Add comment September 4, 2008
