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Nobody's Happy

I don't know this guy, but he's right on with what he's saying:

Box Score for CCCEV on February 21-22, 2009

Here's what happened at Central this weekend:

• Songs included "The Time Has Come", "Let God Arise", "Clinging to the Cross", "Treason", and "Lead Me to the Cross"
• Cal spoke about the Sin of Treason in the church.  It's painful to watch and especially hurtful to those whom we call friends but then betray. All of us at some point have probably committed this sin. This week we looked at how to avoid the sin of spiritual treason in the future.  Watch it here.
• We had a great prayer conference called "Elevate".  We had over 1,000 people registered for this event.  Stormie Omartian spoke and her hubbie, Michael Omartian,  brought the music.  I kept waiting for "We Are the World", which he co-produced along with Quincy Jones, but no.
  

Central's Small Group Connection Event

If you're not in a Small Group at Central, you have to come to this!

The Small Group Connection Event offers community time to connect with others in your area and meet some of the small group leaders with all of us helping you to select a small group of your choice. It's time for you to get connected!

When: Saturday, March 7, 2009
Time: 6:30 to 8 p.m.
Location: Mesa Campus, Outback

or

When: Sunday, March 8, 2009
Time: 6:30 to 8 p.m.
Location: Gilbert Campus, Student Ministry Room

What are you waiting for??????????

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This Really Happened

While in Las Vegas over the weekend, I rode in an elevator with this guy:

His name is David Ragsdale and he plays violin for Kansas.   Yes…that Kansas.  LG and I saw them in concert on Friday night at Boulder Station.

When we got our tickets, I had expected to see something like one of the original guys and four or five guys that were barely born when “Carry on Wayward Son” came out, but it turned out to be most of the guys who have been with them all the way along.

 

 

I also thought it was a bad sign when the lead guitar player came out and put his reading glasses on, but it turned out to be a great show.  Musically, they were very tight, the lead vocalist could hit all of the notes, even “don’t you cry no moooooooorrrrrrre.”

Great show, I’d see them again

 

Then on Sunday morning, we attended Central Christian Church in Henderson, and I found that the author of a book I’m reading, Mad Church Disease, was signing books in the coffee shop.  So I got to meet Anne Jackson, who writes a very popular blog and is on staff at the church I would attend if I lived in Nashville, Cross Point Church. 

I highly recommend the book for pastors who tend to neglect their spiritual life in order to get their work done.

Box Score at Central for February 14-15, 2009

Here's what happened at Central Christian Church this past weekend.

• Songs included two relationship songs that I didn't recognize but my kids loved.
• A funny video commercial for a cheezy singer of 80's songs.
• Jud Wilhite gave the message on marriage.
• I snuck my Starbucks into the Worship Center, and then found out that it was permitted.
• Anne Jackson signed her book, Mad Church Disease, in the coffee shop.
• Then we ate lunch at Fazoli's.  I sure miss the breadsticks!

Innovation's Dirty Little Secret with Larry Osborne

Got to hear Larry Osborne from North Coast Church today at the Church Solutions conference.  Here's some goodies from him:

• most innovations fail - don't change what's working even if you think what you want to go to is better
• successful serial innovators start with a clear exit strategy in mind
• start ups have only a future to create
• existing programs and organizations have a past to protect.
• make sure your organization has both champions of the future AND protectors of the past
• the edge service is for those who love big sub woofers and Mountain Dew
  
• Proverbs 16:9
• Proverbs 21:30-31
• Highly successful innovators see to share three key traits:
  • Insight - mentally modeling outcomes-chess players see moves ahead
  • Courage - trust their mental model - there are never enough facts to probe for sure
  • Flexibility - it won't work out quite the way you think it will - inventor of Novocaine tried to stop dentists from using it because he thought it should be used for surgery.
• Innovation's most powerful igniters:
  • Personal passion
  • Organizational problems - problems cause change
• Innovation's most powerful accelerators
  • A clear mission and values
  • A bias for action - as opposed to a permission denying organization
  • A respected champion
  • planning in pencil
  • a viable exit strategy - know the benchmarks you will pull the plug at
• Innovation's Killers
  • Past failures - failed experiments makes you Edison
  • Surveys
  • Group-think - controlled by the stubborn and the angry
  • Cultural disconnect
  • Past success - what would Walt Disney do?
• Innovation is best done by 1-3 people, criticism best done by 4

Fun at New York, New York

I had a lot of fun with the family on the Las Vegas Strip.  Here's Kelsey and I on the roller coaster at New York, New York

Visit to Vegas

Visit to Vegas
Originally uploaded by jlgibson84

We're smiling because we're on the road! It's a weekend off for a little R and R!

Brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.

You can see snow from Mesa!  I took this with my phone.

I think it's Mt. Ord.

Okay, it's 25 miles away and you have to squint.

Hey, I'll take what I can get as long as I don't have to shovel it.