Better Brainstorming for Innovation

New post at Visual Church Leader: how to do better brainstorming to develop more ideas.

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Photos and fencing

This past week was quite windy. Tuesday as I was driving to work, I noticed 3 huge tumbleweeds totally blocking the turn lane. Even though the wind was blowing really hard it was like they were stuck!

When I grew up in Illinois, tumbleweeds were things you only read about in books. It has been interesting [...]

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Grace Culture Spectrum

I’m fascinated by different church cultures. Here’s one way to look at church culture: where you fall along the grace spectrum. New post at my Visual Church Leader blog.

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Teaching and learning

Today was Attempt #2 to go down to the Bay Area, after my extraneous trip yesterday!
My day started out quite stressful, involving a missing video camera, missing blank video tapes, 3 minutes to run to my office and tech booth before service started, a cup of untouched chai latte calling out to me, and trying [...]

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Office makeover

A few weekends ago, my office had a total makeover. Our friend Glen used to be a professional painter and I learned all sorts of very interesting things about painting! Always great to work with a pro… I love seeing how skilled people work… learn so much from them! And it was  kind of a [...]

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You never know when a high school drafting class comes out handy

One of the things I love about my job is the variety and different things I get to do.
This past Sunday I preached a message on Jonah. (Will post later on that.)
The next day I made a volunteer staffing chart that’s five feet long by 4 feet high. (Will post later on that too.)
And today [...]

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Efficient packing system

This is our fifth move in three years. You would think by now we would be a family packing machine. But alas, such is not the case. I still hate packing. It still takes forever. And it still makes me feel very, very tired.
We are moving tomorrow (Saturday). But due to a busy work schedule, [...]

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Lazy way to take notes

Just posted a blog about my new lazy way to take notes at meetings…

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phone seek and find

If someone were to ask me: “You are stranded on a island and can only bring 3 of your most treasured possessions. What would you bring?”
Well, assuming there were electricity and Internet access on the island, I would say 1) Bible, 2) computer and 3) phone. (Since it’s kind of a preposterous exercise anyway, this [...]

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Wennberg Concert Festival 2009

Yesterday our family went to watch our daughter perform at the Mondavi Center. All the Davis school orchestras were there and it was utterly impressive!
It was my second time at Mondavi Center and we got there really early so I spent some time photographing the facility.
Daniel and I hung out in the lobby a while [...]

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