Starting to get the wedding pictures online…the link is below.
http://bigcat.chaosnet.org/gallery
If anyone wants the huge raw picture files I can send them to you somehow (they are in the 15 to 25 meg range per picture) so you have to let me know if you want to make prints or something, so I can send you the files you want.
Also, I believe Champaign is starting a big 40 days of purpose campaign. So I figured I’d just piggy-back off of that and read along at the same time. So if anyone wants to join with me on this “40 day spiritual adventure” I think I’m just going to read it and maybe if people are interested I’ll start a little small-group like thing to work through the materials for that.
Anyway, if anyone around here is interested leave a comment, cuz otherwise I’m just going to read it with Lauren and not do anything else. I am hesitant to try to start anything to attract new people to our church with this since I have been busy and haven’t tried to advertise, or do anything to invite people. I am going to say that I challenge any of the anti – Warren people to join with me and finally put up and read the book or shut-up about how much it sucks. I get annoyed with that…hence why I have been on both sides of this fence for and against the whole Purpose ™ thinger, and now I am going to finally decide if this book is worth the paper it is printed on (for me anyway).
Champaign people, post a comment, and let me know when I have to start reading to track with the Sunday sermons and small group tapes. Minneapolis people tell me if this sounds interesting at all.
Mark Egli says
next week
Siberian says
Uhh, just for the record.
I don’t hate PDL. I won’t bash on it much. It has some useful stuff in it. I just think there are better books out there that accomplish more effectively what Warren is trying to do.
I don’t really believe in mass marketing. I do believe in mass art, mass communication. Mostly I do believe in mass quality, and PDL is just okay. But saying that will not make me any friends, I’m well aware. Nevertheless, I’m not perticularly fond of PDL from the get-go.
Frankly, I don’t know how much time I’ll have for it. I have three books and two other devotionals going on, both of which are checked to see my progress, and the church expects me to take on a third. Gah. If only there were more conformity across ministry teams. I hope I never build a church this fragmentary.
I’ll quit bitching now and go back to work. Sorry to vent, there are good things at VCF Champaign. Just too many directions everyone expects “leaders” to go. Maybe I’ll just say no to PDL, and do some meditation of my own on the concepts therein, since I’ve already read the thing.
Kel says
Well, sorta. Day one for the whole church will be tomorrow (Saturday), but individual small groups may deviate from that some.
BigCat says
Hmm, it is interesting that I wasn’t really talking about you since you have read the book, but more about the weird phobia / overly skeptical attitude that I’m getting from a lot of people our age. Lots of weird fundamentalist comments about how it uses multiple translations and such, gets on my nerves.
On another note, I noticed that typekey seems to be working. Which is sorta random, considering the blog crash and the loss of comments and such. It isn’t quite perfect as of now, it doesn’t work great with the “reply to this” plugin I installed, but none-the-less, it works, and subsequently I now recommend that people use it, so I can stop approving the comments. Which is annyoing, but fortunately I’ve banned the IP addresses of many of the offending spammers, so I get much much less now, but with typekey I could get even less I bet.
Jeff Heidkamp says
I’m just not too interested in it right now. Not because I don’t think it’s good. It seems like the kind of book that would be great for people right at the moment when it is great for them. Or for a church right at the moment when that church needs it. I think when my kids start going to school it seems like that might be a time of life when I would want to read that book.
Don’t know why, just a hunch.
jeff