A 14 year old boy in Iraq has been getting together with some of his friends, where they have been creating “Messages in a Bottle”. The messages are statements asking and promoting peace in Iraq. Him and his friends then take these bottles and put them in the euphrates river, so that other Iraqis will get them and read them. [...]

with google’s holiday logos, but todays was incredible. Here are my top 5.Louis Braille’s Birthday – January 4, 2006 Mother’s Day – May 8, 2005 Season’s Greetings with a Google Doodle Beta Version World Cup – June 9, 2006

not sure my body is designed for a 6am monday morning book club every man god’s man

The Pipeline is having a Superbowl party at the Mattoon Bowl this year. We will probably show this Tom Brady video of him being interviewed on 60 Minutes, and then talk about God wanting to fill the void in their lives.

It started off with a tweet sent out from a request from a friend youth pastoring in Michigan that said “anyone want to play settlers online”. Then i responded by saying that I was interested, and then 2 other friends got the tweet and responded and joined the game. One lives a couple blocks from me, while the other lives [...]

I’ve heard it said, if you can’t say it in 20 minutes… When I saw this video, I just had to laugh. Especially after my last post.Is there a future in sunday am messages, being put in this format? I’m speaking sunday am at first assembly on feb 3. Any suggestions on topics?

I just finished watching the SteveNote. As I was watching, I noticed how Steve Jobs had the audience eating out of his hands. I had the thought, what if preachers could present like that. Characteristics of Steve Job’s presentations Shows success by numbers Let them know they (apple customers) aren’t alone, that others have “buy-in” too. Inspires Makes the features [...]

Tim Stevens, the executive pastor at Granger Community Church, has written a new book titled Pop Goes the Church: Should the Church Engage Pop Culture? Tim posted on his blog, asking for 10 leaders willing to read his book, and review it. I applied and I was selected. I’m super pumped. I will be posting more about the book as [...]

Pastor shared this thought the other day.That the things we buy, cost money, and we get money by working, which involves our time.So before you buy something, think about how much time you had to work to pay for that item. I thought i would figure up how much stuff i normally buy would cost, in time.I will use the [...]

Our graphic work for our 3 weeks series on prayer for the adult service.