Archive - February, 2009

Dude…What’s Buggin You?

February 27, 2009 in Life,Mission,Spiritual Growth with 5 Comments

Chicks and Dudes is our early summer series about relationships.  It’s all about how men and women struggle in relationship and what God says about it.  You can help add some primal research.

Dudes, it’s your turn.  What drives you nuts about women?  What don’t you understand?  What seems like it will always be in the category of permanent mystery to you?  Where are the tension point in your relationship?  Post your comments and let’s hear it!

Thanks to the chicks for some things to think about. Anyone else want to chime in? Ladies, add your struggle/complaint/question here.

Ladies…This One’s for You

February 25, 2009 in Leadership with 9 Comments

I have not been a good blogger lately, but this being the season of Lent, I am repenting and reflecting and getting back into it again.  Actually, I do want a closer walk with the wider community as we approach Easter.

Our Easter series is lined up and ready to go (stay tuned for details), but after Easter I want to do a series on relationships.  We're calling it Chicks and Dudes. (We surveyed enough women and men – 3 or 4 maybe – to think we can call a series Chicks and Dudes without getting fired).  In it, I want to talk about the tension between men and women and the way God designed relationships to happen.

So….are you ready?  Over the next few days, both men and women are going to be able to weigh in on their questions and tensions with the opposite sex.  Once I gather your data, I'll go search out the issues in scripture and prepare the series.

Ladies, you lead.  What are YOUR issues with the opposite sex?  What questions do you have?  What communication barriers?  What struggles?  What issues?  What is it about us men that drives you crazy? Conversely, what part of men do you understand? 

Dudes, we get to listen in for a while…we'll turn the blog over to you shortly.  

Can't wait to hear what you have to say….

The Orange Families Podcast

February 18, 2009 in Leadership,Online,Orange/Family Ministry with 7 Comments

I'm already getting  questions from people about how they can get their hands on the messages for the Orange Families series that started last Sunday at Connexus.

This is a huge series for us, because we built our church around a family ministry strategy.  In Orange Families, we're covering for the first time the parenting strategy that Reggie Joiner and I have been developing over the last year.  I'm so excited to share it with our families and the wider church community (some of you have heard snippets of this on the Orange Tour and at last year's Orange Conference, but this is the first full run at it).

The easiest way to get the messages is via the Connexus Podcast. Just go to iTunes and search "Connexus Community Church" and our audio and video casts will pop up (don't have iTunes? click here.)  Subscribe away.  It's free.

You can also go to our website where we stream the messages.  You can also burn a DVD for yourself off our site.  Click here.

If you are a church leader or volunteer who wants to know more, I'm teaching a breakout at the Orange Conference on how to position your church to maximize a parenting series.  Orange is an awesome conference (you have to get to it) and, if you're interested, the breakout covering this is called "Communicating the Family Ministry Strategy to Your Church". 

Really looking forward to the next five weeks of Orange Families.  Excited by how God might change families because of it!  Looking forward to hearing your feedback and comments!

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