I am excited about the fact that I am traveling to Woodstock, Georgia today for the 20th annual Men’s Conference at First Baptist Church Woodstock! Looking forward to hearing a word from Pastor Johnny Hunt. I will post about the conference to some degree later. Pray for the men in attendance.
Different Noises
The four walls were closing in on me. I struggled to breathe…
OK, maybe not. Read the rest of this entry
Effective Marketing
My daughter is funny sometimes.
We have an awesome radio station around here… 99.1 JOY FM. Local Christian station, listener supported, commercial free. On par with Air1 and KLove, but local. It’s the only (music) radio station our family listens to on a regular basis.
Well, when Lyddie wants to listen to this station, does she ask to listen to the radio? Does she ask me to turn the radio on?
Nope.
She asks to listen to 99.1 JOY FM. That is the only way she asks. Turn on 99.1 JOY FM, please.
Marketing works.
Takeaways from #jhmc2012
As I mentioned in my last post, I haven’t yet written about my experiences a couple of weekends ago at the Men’s Conference at First Baptist Church Woodstock. I intentionally wanted to take some time to soak in everything from the trip.
Rather than write out a detailed play-by-play, I’ve decided to bullet some points, quotes, thoughts, and memories… Read the rest of this entry
My Tips for a Great Men’s Conference at First Baptist Church Woodstock
Last weekend, I attended the Men’s Conference at First Baptist Church Woodstock.
I have been to this conference several times, and I am always impressed with the way the conference is run, the variety of breakouts, and the spirit in the room when several thousand men worship and study the Word together under a wonderful preacher like Johnny Hunt.
The conference has grown over the years to over 12,000 in attendance, and has been expanded to two weekends. So there is another group of 6,000+ men on their way to Woodstock this weekend as well.
I thought I would offer up some tips to those men on their way to the second weekend of the conference…
- Bring a Bible and a pen. Lots of notes to take, and lots of scriptures to look up. Most are in the booklet, but still…
- Look over the breakout list and have a plan. Have a general idea as to which breakout you want to attend and know its location well enough to get there early.
- Be flexible with your breakout selection. One of the guys in our group could only get in to his third choice.
- Be honest. With God and with yourself. Arrive expecting conviction and pray to that end. Pastor Johnny has a powerful word to share (I’ll write about my takeaways in a later post), and, as one of our guys said, he will pound you in the face with it. And that’s a good thing.
Here’s a taste of the theme song for the conference…
Paper or Plastic? Permanent or Temporary?
I read an interview in the UK Telegraph with Jonathan Frazen, author of Freedom. (This post is not an endorsement or rejection of Frazen or his work. I don’t know anything more about Mr. Frazen than what was written in this article.)
In it, he espoused the physical printed book and eschewed ebooks and digital media. When referencing consumers’ need for the latest technology, he said…
The technology I like is the American paperback edition of Freedom. I can spill water on it and it would still work! So it’s pretty good technology. And what’s more, it will work great ten years from now… I think, for serious readers, a sense of permanence has always been a part of the experience. Everything else in your life is fluid, but here is this text that doesn’t change.
He goes on to speak of books as “permanent” and “unalterable.” Those were the words that caught my attention. Read the rest of this entry
Fingerprints in Clay
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Tony and I love Wallace and Gromit.
For those that don’t know, Wallace and Gromit is a series of clay stop motion shorts by Nick Park featuring an inventive, oblivious lover of cheese (Wallace) and his attentive and resourceful dog (and Tony is my son).
We were watching their latest adventure, The Loaf of Death, on Netflix the other day. The animation is so compelling that you quickly forget that the characters are made of clay. Read the rest of this entry
Did I Really Want to Go to Elephant Room 2?
A few days ago, I tweeted an entry for a contest to see Elephant Room 2…
Still a few days to register for @ElephantRoom2 in 70+ cities nationwide w @jamesmacdonald – ow.ly/8zPSd—
Jon Wellman (@jonwellman) January 20, 2012
The question is… did I really want to go? Read the rest of this entry
