Posted in Election, Frontline Leadership, Terrorism, War of Ideas, Worldview, tagged Christianity, citizen-driven government, government, Islam, Terrorism on July 9, 2008 | No Comments »
Where is your place in the current war of ideas with radical Islam?
Posted in Christianity, Frontline Leadership, Humility in Practice, Worldview on July 6, 2008 | No Comments »
There is resistance to the gospel that naturally arises anytime a Christian calls a non-Christian to faith and repentance in Christ. There is also a resistance when a non-Christian feels like a Christian is giving them a sales pitch, rather than being a true friend to them.
These two kinds of resistance are not the same. [...]
Posted in Christianity, Communication, Frontline Leadership, Humility in Practice, tagged Christianity, gospel, new media on July 4, 2008 | 2 Comments »
I bet that right now, there are many proven executives and marketplace leaders across the body of Christ who could gain a large new media audience in short order. Could pastors do more to encourage them to do this? I wonder if just a nudge in the right direction wouldn’t make a big difference.
From my [...]
Posted in Christianity, Frontline Leadership, Technology, War of Ideas, tagged Christian Blogs, Christianity, church, gospel, new media on July 3, 2008 | No Comments »
This is #4 in my response to Jacob Vanhorn’s outstanding questions on new media presence (see first, second, and third posts). It is humbling and sobering to address these questions. I don’t presume any special insights, but would ask anyone reading any of these thoughts to test them against the wisdom of others, bring them [...]
Posted in Christianity, Communication, Frontline Leadership, Humility in Practice, Media Democratization, tagged Christianity, gospel, new media on July 2, 2008 | No Comments »
In my first and second posts on new media presence, I was responding to Jacob Vanhorn’s questions at a pretty basic level. Now I’d like to focus the idea of leadership training, which he called out specifically.
I advocate a strong emphasis on training not only pastors, but also members who are called to the marketplace. [...]
Posted in Christianity, Communication, Frontline Leadership, Media Democratization, tagged Christianity, Communication, gospel, new media on July 1, 2008 | 1 Comment »
We are continuing our exploration of pastor Jacob Vanhorn’s great questions on new media and the idea of “presence.” I’d like to isolate one-way vs. two-way communication approaches to gain presence. New media is all about two-way, though a remnant of one-way still holds sway in many circles, especially those where marketing budgets are [...]
Posted in Christianity, Frontline Leadership, War of Ideas, Worldview, tagged al mohler, Christianity, liberal, ted kennedy on June 4, 2008 | No Comments »
In a very important show of the underlying love and compassion of Christianity–often overlooked as Christians contend for the truthfulness of our claims over against left-liberal views–Dr. Al Mohler offered this exhortation today:
Pray for Ted Kennedy
-Albert Mohler
Sen. Edward Kennedy underwent brain surgery on Monday in an effort to deal with the deadly cancer [...]
Posted in Frontline Leadership, Technology, Terrorism, War of Ideas, tagged Terrorism, al qaeda, google, lieberman, government on June 3, 2008 | No Comments »
Updated 6/4/08: Inquiring minds want to know more (see PS at bottom)
On May 19, U.S. Senator Joseph Lieberman called on Google to remove Internet videos produced by terrorist organizations such as Al-Qaeda from its YouTube subsidiary. Google did not remove all the terrorist-sponsored videos in question.
Today, Bloomberg reported that “Google Diplomats Bend Free [...]
Posted in Christianity, Communication, Frontline Leadership, tagged american idol, christian, david archuleta, david cook, onerepublic, rocky, simon cowell on May 22, 2008 | 8 Comments »
Despite the fluff and immodesty of the American Idol finale shows, I found them thrilling and, if you don’t mind, even faith-building (Sorry, Kerrin!) . It’s for the same reason Rocky is my favorite movie and movie character of all time. It’s why my boys of 5 and 2 are already hearing repeatedly from Dad [...]
Posted in Christianity, Election, Frontline Leadership, War of Ideas, Worldview, tagged culture, conservative, Christianity, new media, politics, barack obama, albert mohler, judicial activism, liberal on May 19, 2008 | 3 Comments »
In my essay for Evangelical Outpost (link to full PDF version), I argued that new media provides more opportunities for a wider range of voices to be heard on various subjects. To take advantage of this opportunity, I advocate that one should develop a virtual “Board of Advisors,” composed of experts in and around [...]
