Riddle Me This

Out of town, so re-posting an old post today… So, want to hear some stats? (You really don’t.)  Question: How many churches have grown into the thousands since 1990?  Answer: Tons of them. (For instance, from 2000 to 2005 the number of churches with attendance over 5,000 doubled). Question: How many churches have started in…

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Reality Church Shows – the Sequel

Yesterday I shared a few stupid ideas for church-based reality TV shows. But here’s a real one: Shark Tank: Church Edition I love Shark Tank, the show where inventors and people in the process of launching new businesses go before some venture capitalists asking for investments to help start or grow their businesses. So what…

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Reality Church Shows

One of the weird things that’s happened to us here in Vegas is that we’ve been asked several times to make our church a reality TV show. We’ve said no every time. But it’s got me thinking about some church-related reality shows ideas. Today I’ll share a couple ideas that I’m not serious about, tomorrow…

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A Parable

Picture this:  It’s 9/12. The morning after the terrorist attacks in New York City. Experts believe that there are people, possibly hundreds of people, buried alive under the rubble that was only a day ago the World Trade towers. Rescue workers have been called in to dig through the rubble to search for people who…

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Contagion 3: Spread the Disease

The last two days I’ve been thinking with you about the movie Contagion. And why doesn’t the Jesus virus spread throughout the world as it did during New Testament times? And how can we see that happen again? I haven’t gotten this all figured out, but I’m pretty sure the answer is love. What we…

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