Do you trust you spell checker?

by drwinn

Eye halve a spelling checker It came with my pea sea It plainly marques for my revue Miss steaks eye kin knot sea. Eye strike a key and type a word And weight four it to say Weather eye am wrong oar write It shows me strait a weigh. As soon as a mist ache [...]

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Is Sunday Worship Really All About Me?

by drwinn

Sunday, as I sat through a service at the local community of faith that my family attends, I had the following thoughts. We are so impregnated with individualism and consumerism. But, unlike a pregnant woman, we don’t realize it. Individualism and consumerism affects the olders and the youngers. It is not a respecter of persons. [...]

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Three Things I Learned From My Dad

by drwinn

I only lived under my dad’s direct influence for eighteen years and only twenty-seven years in total before he passed on. I have lived longer without his physical presence (almost forty years) than I was privileged to live with his physical presence. Out of the many things he taught me three come to mind today: [...]

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Church: Open Space Technology

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What if church used Open Space Technology on occasion? The following are its four basic concepts: Whoever comes/is here are the right people Whenever it starts is the right time Whatever happens is the only thing that could have happened Whenever it’s over, it’s over I might add, everyone gets an opportunity to speak. What [...]

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Book Review: googling God’s Will

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Book Review for Immediate Release by Jim Miller googling God’s Will: Why Keep Searching For It When It’s Not Lost? Winn Griffin Harmon Press (January 7, 2011) Years ago when I was first told that God loved me and had a wonderful plan for my life I believed it. I still do. But in recent [...]

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Yesterday and Today

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Share something that you learned yesterday. Notice something today. Technology is wonderful. Yesterday, I watched as my daughter, Jeramie Joy, who has a heart pace maker, put a pad over the area where the pace maker is and pressed a button to a monitor which collected information form the devise inside her chest and then [...]

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What Are You Doing Next Sunday?

by drwinn

Another Sunday has come and gone in which I spent a short period of time inside a building where we followed a pattern that has come to be called church. We gather. We drink coffee and have surface conversation. We sing. We hear announcements. We listen or not to someone teach/preach. We are invited to [...]

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Megachurch Is a Factory

by drwinn

In the video below according to Seth Godin, megachurch is a factory. He also suggests that most leaders are managers and that a leader says what she/he believes and see who follows. He also think that if you help folks find what they want to do and then get out of the way and let [...]

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What’s in a Name?

by drwinn

I originally wrote this blog post May 28, 2003 and thought it would be fun to post it again. Today while visiting a mall I took a moment to step into the “Christian Bookstore.” The store is about one-third books and two-thirds “Jesus Junk.” I guess to be authentic it should be called the “Christian [...]

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Celebrate 400 Years

by drwinn

Happy 1-1-11 While not the first English Bible to appear, the KJV was the most successful and long lasting, still dominating some church groups today. We have entered into the 400th year of its publication (1611-2011). While I have not read this concept anywhere , but surely it is out there somewhere, the NIV plans [...]

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Goodbye 2010, Hello 2011

by drwinn

“I can’t change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.” —Jimmy Dean Goals are important. We either set them or we don’t. One thing is sure. If a person doesn’t have something to shoot at, she/he will most likely hit nothing or everything. Having no goals [...]

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