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In the latest installment of his Leisure Suit series, Morgan emphasizes the need for churches to get “unstuck.”  On his own website, Morgan relays the main principles from the book:

• making the necessary changes to get different results
• bridging the gap between vision and execution
• following God’s blueprint for fulfilling his purposes
• avoiding over-reliance on teaching to produce change, and
• creating healthy systems in your church

What I like best about Morgan’s approach is that each book in the series is short, to the point, and — most importantly — executable, meaning this series is more than just theory and ideas — it contains real suggestions and plans.  In addition, I like that each is easily digestible and takes very little time to read through.  Morgan also remains down-to-earth and easy to read.

If you are interested in reading more about this book, or any of Morgan’s other books, then head on over to his website.  Oh yeah, and not to mention, these e-books are FREE!

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According to deadline.com, “Lost” executive producer Carlton Cuse and controversial pastor/author Rob Bell have teamed up for a new ABC TV show called “Stronger” that will apparently have spiritual over-tones.

In this blogger’s humble opinion, there is no longer any need to speculate as to why Bell resigned from his mega-church pastorate.  Just sayin’.

Although, blogger Jon Acuff is already speculating that there will be innumerable sermon illustrations as a result.

You can read the entire article here.

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In his classic easy-to-read style, Stanley takes each concept and principle and transforms them into understandable bite-size morsels that the reader can easily digest.  Without revealing too much, Stanley gracefully weaves his stories, anecdotes, quotes, and life principles with his usual wit, charm, and likability.

While this book is certainly appropriate for all ages, I believe it is especially timely for those in high school and college as they search for their adult beginnings and start their own life journey, as Stanley directly addresses such topics as relationships and finances.

I would definitely recommend this book to anyone searching for a better decision-making ability.

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Does Wright believe that sentiment is changing?  If so, why does he believe that?

Well, Wright gives two reasons for this belief:

“First, the convention’s name is so regional,” he said. “With our focus on church planting, it is challenging in many parts of the country to lead churches to want to be part of a convention with such a regional name. Second, a name change could position us to maximize our effectiveness in reaching North America for Jesus Christ in the 21st century.”

Obviously, this is a hot button issue within the convention, and Wright no doubt knows the fire storm this will create.  Hopefully, he has prepared for the coming backlash.

One blogger summed it up this way:

According to Baptist Press, some members of the SBC’s Executive Committee expressed concern over the possibility of a new name and of this task force being selected without convention approval.  In fact, since the task force is not an official committee of the convention, members have to pay their own expenses.

Should the churches of the convention be concerned over the way this is being handled?  I’ll reserve my opinion for another time.  What say you?

To read more, you can read the original Baptist Press article here.  You can also read some reactions by baptist bloggers here, here, here, and here.

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Gmail Offline is a Chrome Web Store app that helps you read, respond to, organize and archive email when you don’t have an internet connection.

Google also says they’ll be rolling out Google Calendar and Google Docs offline within the next week.

You can read more about it here.

I like that Google is adding these options as it makes Gmail more user friendly and allows for reading and writing offline.

How does this impact you and your email use?  Are you a Gmail user?

I found this rather fascinating.  Enjoy!

[HT: TechKing]