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Trial & Error in Church Social Media

Did you know that 80% of social media success is trial and ...

Live-Tweeting Services in a Multi-site Church Environment

In the past 3 years of being on staff at Park we’ve ...

Context & Timeliness in Social Media

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Monday Wake Up

Wedding season has begun in the Burns household. We attended our first wedding last weekend, which was the first of 8 for the summer, and I’m a groomsman in 3 of them. Talk about a busy summer. But it’s an exciting time in our lives when many people we are close to are entering into [...]

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Monday Wake Up

It’s Monday and we’ve been living in our new apartment for 9 days. We moved from a studio to a 2 bedroom. I literally don’t know what to do with all of the space sometimes. I’ve found myself just standing in our new apartment, trying to figure out where to walk and where to sit. [...]

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What I Learned From Being Mentored

I was fortunate enough to be mentored by someone in my first year of career ministry. I wouldn’t trade this experience for anything. The lessons I learned from my mentor in those months were some that would stick with me for years to come. What I quickly learned though, was that I always need to [...]

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Monday Wake Up

I’ve got a busy week ahead so I wanted to sit down and recap what’s been going on, and give you all the best links that I’ve found over the past week. My wife and I are t-minus 5 days away from moving into our new apartment. This will be my 4th apartment in 4 [...]

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Monday Wake Up

I love the irony of the title of this post each week “Monday Wake Up.” Half the time I’m either writing it as I’m falling asleep on a Sunday night, or not fully woken up on a Monday morning. I hope you’re awake by now on this Monday. To give you an update on the [...]

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Monday Wake Up :: Stolen Car

Sometimes we have experiences in life that frustrate us, cause us to ask questions, while at the same time teach us life lessons that we wouldn’t necessarily learn otherwise. Usually these lessons come through something being taken away from us, or something that we have become accustomed to living with. This past week Amy and [...]

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Monday Wake Up

I attended my first Shakespeare drama this past weekend. I actually attended the drama 4 times over the course of the weekend as my wife had a part in it. Fortunately I read the synopsis before the first performance or I’m pretty sure I would’ve been completely lost. It’s amazing to me how people can [...]

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#Verge13 :: Francis Chan

Francis Chan (August 31, 1967) is an American preacher. He is the former teaching pastor of Cornerstone Community Church in Simi Valley, CA, a church he and his wife started in 1994. He is also the Founder and Chancellor of Eternity Bible College and author of the best-selling book, Crazy Love: Overwhelmed by a Relentless God, which came out in 2009. He released his [...]

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#Verge13 :: David Platt

David Platt (born 1979) is an American pastor. He is currently the head pastor of The Church at Brook Hills in Birmingham, Alabama, and he is also the author of the New York Times Best Seller Radical: Taking Back Your Faith from the American Dream. Platt released his follow-up book, Radical Together: Unleashing the People of God for the Purpose of God in [...]

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Band of Brothers :: Monday Wake Up

It’s a rare thing when you find yourself surrounded by friends who are going to be there for life. We may be spread out all over the world, but to know that they are always going to be there, that is truly amazing. That was the theme of my weekend. I became friends with a [...]

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