So, I’m at the National Pastors Convention. I missed Tuesday’s main session, where Erwin McManus spoke cleverly, in fine form, confounding many of the older people in the audience, and jazzing up the (fewer) younger crowd. I’m told by a reliable source. And, then, I hear comments like these:

“erwin mcmanus is a great communicator, but […]

Delighted to hear Scot (jesuscreed.org) McKnight in person this afternoon, talking about how in the world we can have the confidence to know what parts of Bible appy today and what doesn’t. He suggests that there’s a third way to read the Bible, less of a pick & choose, and more of an adopt & […]

I over-estimated the attendance here at the National Pastors Convention 2008 in San Diego– it’s closer to 1,800 than 2,000. Got here last night, after taking a detour off of Interstate 5 which was a parking lot, came down on PCH, grabbed a quick dinner en route.
Sat next to headsparks (Daniel So). Listened in […]

I don’t think it’s the turn of the economy as it is that it just so happens that I know people seeking jobs, and churches seeking pastors. But those 2 circles often don’t connect. What makes this connection harder to make is geographical preferences — not every company knows how to manage telecommuters + not […]

Dwell Conference, an urban church planting conference, is slated for April 29-30, 2008, in the city of cities, New York City. This’ll be a premier training event for urban church planters with attendance limited to 350. So this’ll be a cozy time with Tim Keller AND Mark Driscoll, along with Ed Stetzer, CJ Mahaney, and […]