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Advent Conspiracy

Here is some of the news coverage from our Advent Conspiracy event yesterday.  So cool to be a part of and so many stories to share already.

St. Louis CBS news

St. Louis Fox news

St. Louis Post Dispatch

Advent Conspiracy

Holy Cow!  What a revolution!  Just a few years ago this little movement started to push back on consumerism and in turn provide clean drinking water for people around the world.

3 churches turned into a few hundred.

A few hundred turned into a few thousand.

And this year we have no idea what to expect.

At youthcrossing we've seen students dreaming big dreams and hashing out monumental plans to raise money for clean water.

One middle school girl trick or treated for clean water.  She raised $70.

A few high school students are collecting spare change.  They started with $8.

A couple of other students somehow convinced the principal of their public school to let them pitch this whole idea to their entire school.  We'll know in a few weeks what happens.

In the mean time, watch this.

Be inspired.

Around the interwebs

Here are a couple of photos I came across from the ol' world wide web.

From Renee Scott's blog

From Fail Blog

Do You Believe in God?

When asked if he believes in God, here is what Peter Rollins says...

    So the question remains… as a Christian, do I believe in God? Well, while I am drawn to the idea that there     is a Supreme Being I must confess that I don’t believe in God, at least most of the time.

    But if you ask me whether I aspire to believing in God then, with all of my being I say yes, yes     and again yes…

David Letterman

There is so much to unpack here.  It's a 10 minute video, but very interesting all the way through.

Notice what Dave says and how he says it.

He seems sincere.

Notice the crowd.

They seem confused.

The whole thing is fascinating to me.

Extreme Makeover Home Edition!!!

When Rachel and I lived in Indiana we built a couple of houses.  The home building company's CEO was an elder in our church.  

This homebuilding company has recently been chosen to build a home for Extreme Makeover Home Edition!

Make sure you tune in on Sunday nights in the month of January and cheer on Hallmark Homes!

Check it all out here!!

This is what happens...

"When you don't write, people stop reading."

Write that down.  Take it to the bank.  Write a book about it.  It's true and there is no denying it.  I have stopped writing and you have stopped reading.  I get it.  It just makes sense.  I wish I could promise more.  But I can't.

It's no secret, I love to write and teach.  Right now I am teaching a lot.  Which means I am going to write less.  

So maybe i'll just post random pictures of myself. 

Great Leaders

From Craig Groeschel's blog

When looking for great leaders, those who are truly great (or potentially great) usually don’t tell you they are great. In fact, they often don’t realize they are exceptionally gifted by God to lead.

With rare exceptions, whenever someone initially rattles off a resume of success, I find that most of the time, these “apparently” great leaders are either:

A) Very insecure.
B) Overselling themselves.

Those who are truly the best don’t seem to be driven to convince you they are the best. The most gifted do more than they talk.

Community

I like the new show Community on NBC.  I especially liked this...

Teaching notes

Here are a few notes for my teaching tonight.  We are using a huge plexiglass board on stage and I will use it to draw these notes on.

Can you guess what I'm teaching about?