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Ken Blanchard, famed speaker and writer on leadership (think The One-Minute Manager) describes himself as a late-comer to the faith at the age of 50. One of Ken's latest initiatives is Lead Like Jesus, an effort to inspire and equip people to lead like Jesus. Here are some notes from Blanchard's session at Exponential 2010. …
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The second break-out that I went to was with Tim Stevens of Granger Community Church. I'm a big fan of Tim's blog, Leading Smart, which is definitely worth a visit. Time was drawing on the material in his latest book, Pop Goes the Church, which is about the connections between popular culture and church ministry. …
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I went to my first workshop session with Rick Bezet, pastor of New Life Church in Conway, Arkansas.For those interested, this is the church where Kris Allen of American Idol fame came from. The one thing that life-giving churches are doing without exception is reaching the lost. Barna study not too long ago – we’re …
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Louie Giglio, founder of the Passion Conferences and the newly planted Passion City Church, follower Mark Batterson in our main session today. Louie started by having us read Isaiah 55 out loud together. Not a model, but Passion City Church started with a main operating principle People ask me about Passion City Church: ‘What kind …
Mark Batterson of National Community Church kicked off our main sessions together with some great words from the story of Balaam in Numbers 22:18-35. Angel of the Lord to Balaam: “I have come to block your way…” (22:32) “God is far more concerned with who you’re becoming than with where you’re going” Sometimes God gets …
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Matthew Erickson 