tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-54364549516341852982011-04-21T18:33:51.273-07:00Craig Millerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00957461344611404099noreply@blogger.comBlogger131100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5436454951634185298.post-70194545714763600752009-01-05T23:21:00.000-08:002009-01-05T23:38:13.979-08:00

It seems as though a few people with government jobs will determine the possible fate of nearly two million workers connected to the U.S. Auto industry. As many face an uncertain future, the recent events raised the prospects of the total collapse of the industry, as we know it. This is only one of several crises threatening to increase the total homeless population in America to staggering

Pastor Rudyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08876065943844170986noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5436454951634185298.post-633160394871864812008-12-01T12:50:00.001-08:002008-12-01T12:50:56.295-08:00

6000 reasons..... and each has a name.6000 reasons .... and each has a face.6000 reasons ...and each has a story.Today, World Aids Day, Like everyday, 6000 Children will lose a parent to AIDS.Today, Like Every day, We have 6000 reasons to care.Today, like every day we have 6000 reasons to offer hope.What prevents you from responding? Ignorance? Denial to the extent of the problem? Despair about

Duanehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04072242363450763008noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5436454951634185298.post-87442396623419264812008-11-13T07:54:00.000-08:002008-11-13T07:56:41.915-08:00

Last nights CMA Awards, broadcast live on ABC, is Country Music’s night to shine. It’s by no accident that many of the award winners thanked the songwriters. For the singers know, without the songwriter there is no song to sing.Over the last couple of months I have been privileged to take a songwriters class at the Blair School of Music in Nashville. Each week a songwriter shares his or her

Craig Millerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00957461344611404099noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5436454951634185298.post-52477700228404802412008-11-07T12:22:00.000-08:002008-11-07T13:09:18.157-08:00

A look at generations in this year's elections tells an interesting story. In Making God Real for a New Generation which was published in 2002, I talked about the emergence of a new Youth Boom that would hit in 2006 as the Millennial Generation, those born from 1982 to 1999, entered into their young adult and youth years. Today we are seeing the fruit of that Youth Boom in the election of

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Early voting began in Houston, Texas last week, and over the past few days I have received text messages from an assortment of friends and acquaintances who have my cell phone number (about 2,400 folks have that number) with messages celebrating their vote like “I Voted” and many more versions. The one message that struck me the most was the one that came to me via a text message a few days ago

Pastor Rudyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08876065943844170986noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5436454951634185298.post-8147664294781505442008-09-12T10:14:00.000-07:002008-09-12T10:16:33.967-07:00

I love the Small is Tall video which I found on You tube. Its a wonderful satirical commentary on Starbucks and its ability to get people to conform to what in effect is nonsense when it comes to ordering. Why do people willingly let their brains stop working when they make their orders? Here is an effort to make sense of it all.First, people like to feel special. Knowing the secret language

Craig Millerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00957461344611404099noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5436454951634185298.post-81023139059257361032008-05-24T05:40:00.000-07:002008-05-24T06:37:26.788-07:00

A couple of weeks ago, our L3 Leadership Incubator was meeting in Baltimore when one of our members invited a surprise guest to our dinner table, Brian Mclaren, one the foremost writers and thinkers about contemporary spirituality and the church. In the midst of our conversation he made this rather generous and hopeful remark: "United Methodists have the theology and message that best connects to

Craig Millerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00957461344611404099noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5436454951634185298.post-92110815898619012422008-05-08T10:14:00.001-07:002008-05-08T10:14:59.560-07:00

Hey team I am TDMaverick!Tyrone

TDmaverickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00771461030874628626noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5436454951634185298.post-13757786533032944562008-04-22T10:01:00.000-07:002008-04-22T10:04:18.628-07:00

As United Methodist leaders gather in Fort Worth, Texas for the 2008 General Conference they will focus on a number of key issues related to the ongoing vitality of the denomination. While the number of United Methodists has grown outside the United States, the U.S. Church has continued to decline in numbers. In a paradoxical way, this ongoing loss of members is bringing leaders to a critical

Craig Millerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00957461344611404099noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5436454951634185298.post-27406343690400306092008-02-05T07:22:00.001-08:002008-02-05T07:35:37.056-08:00

This summer I stumbled upon the "nothing but Net's" campaign to deal with the challenge of Malaria in the world.The UMC is a partner....So my church sold the shirts "Buzzkill" and we encouraged offerings, and sent over $6000.00 to the Nothing but nets fund. Then other than wearing our shirts... we kinda forgot about it.then...last week the washington post and new york times both ran articles

Duanehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04072242363450763008noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5436454951634185298.post-85323744249221197732008-02-04T18:10:00.000-08:002008-02-04T18:13:16.662-08:00

A movement is grass roots...the good news! That means that life can be brought to our systems on the cellular (local) level. I'm most interested in what is happening in the local churches...where are there signs of new life? What are they looking like? Where is Jesus showing up in the unexpected places?Dottie

Dottienoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5436454951634185298.post-56106615677076908182008-02-04T15:04:00.000-08:002008-02-04T15:05:46.333-08:00

I'm joining in the conversation about how to exist and thrive within the outdated structures of a dying denomination. How do we become a movement again, instead of a monument to historicity?

Linda McCoynoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5436454951634185298.post-50898818201947868052008-02-02T08:18:00.000-08:002008-02-02T08:43:34.509-08:00

Only 20 years ago if you wanted to share your thoughts with the world you would need to find a publisher -- a newspaper, book, or magazine that would agree with what you wanted to say and then you would need to negogiate a contract in order to be heard. Now all you need is an email address and access to the web and virtually anyone in the world can read what you have to say. The good news is that

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