Category Archives: Business

Read with Extra Discernment…

My friend Brad has followed up on his initial detective work regarding Lifeway’s new “read with discernment” labels.  You can read his post here. The folks he interviewed at his Lifeway are friends of mine as well.  Your local Lifeway employees are not to blame for this, so if you go in and ask them...

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Read with Discernment…

A friend of mine (I just found out he blogs) found this warning by Lifeway underneath some Donald Miller books the other day.  I had him go back and take a picture for me to post.  If Don Miller’s books require extra discernment when reading, then I hate to see what warning Lifeway would give...

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The Law of the Few…

So what happens when we start looking at our networks for Malcolm Gladwell’s three personalities? In The Tipping Point, Gladwell offers three uniquely important types of people in the spread of ideas.  They comprise the Law of the Few. “The success of any kind of social epidemic is heavily dependent on the involvement of people...

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The Congruence Theory…

In 2005 I read an article by David Britt from Harvie Conn’s Planting and Growing Urban Churches.  Britt discussed what he refers to as the congruence theory.  Within any setting you’ll find different individuals.  From a distance these individuals often create a singular demographic, psychographic, or ethnographic.  When you look at the individuals up close,...

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The Power of the Internets [Worth Looking At]…

I posted a list of the more common tools I use everyday. Recently I’ve discovered a few that have serious potential in everyday life. They’re all worth looking into. Mint: It bills itself as “the free, automatic, online way to manage your money.” This thing has incredible potential. You could access it anywhere, keep up...

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