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Comment on To Tweet or Not to Tweet by Jim Porter

Jim Porter — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 14:53:17 +0000

I spoke a few weeks ago on the sin of “selfish ambition” mentioned in Galatians 5. I found this quote by Len Sweet in Soul Tsunami:

“Attention is the most precious commodity of the future.”

Talk about prophetic. Twitter, FaceBook, My Space, eHarmony, ad nauseum. It’s all the story (and promotion) of the “me.”

Comment on Religious or Spiritual? by Margot Cioccio

Margot Cioccio — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 00:24:24 +0000

Hi Doug,
Nice to see your web presence. It looks really great. I’ve enjoyed reading your posts.

You would remember me as Margot Ferlito. Its been a while but I worked with you and Gary on a church plant in Seattle. My ex, Ron and I and our little guy Niah would drive up from Yelm for Sundays and stay for the radio show. It has to have been at least 10 years ago because Niah is now 12. Time sure flies and takes a lot of un expected turns.

Anyway I have mentioned your consulting work to my pastor, Rob Bryceson. He came to this church about 2 years ago. I have been with the church not quite a year. It is an over 100 year old Covenant Church in down town Spokane. I am part of the church management team. The cool thing we have been doing is a weekly feeding and building relationships with 100-150 homeless and very low income folks in our neighborhood. We opened our doors as a warming center during the cold winter months and have partnered with Gonzaga students who come in on Thursdays and do another meal.

You are one of the best out of the box thinkers I know of and I guess I am wondering what it would take for us to have a phone conference with you.

I’m not sure we can save the church we have about 60 people attending about 30 are members and about 15 of us are working our tails off.
I would like to see us transition to some kind of mission or outreach ministry to the homeless.
We get very mixed messages from the denomination- on one hand they seem interested in the social justice ministry that we are doing and on the other hand it often feels like they are just waiting for us to die so they can sell off any assets.

Anyway thought I would send you a note to say hi and to find out what it takes to consult with you.

My contact info is
Margot Cioccio 509-235-2716
princessmargot@hotmail.com

Comment on Signs of Depression… by Bennie Kinnamon

Bennie Kinnamon — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 02:53:17 +0000

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Comment on Batteries by Encinitas Rehab

Encinitas Rehab — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 06:57:41 +0000

Good job taking the time to create that, it helped us out

Comment on Christmas Carry Over by Phil Hortop

Phil Hortop — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 16:08:17 +0000

Thank you for this post Doug. May believers pray and seek to draw near to the broken.

Comment on Poor Kids by Charles Ott

Charles Ott — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 05:20:21 +0000

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Comment on Testing Your Responses by susan

susan — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 01:06:34 +0000

Nice job Sunday! I bet you wished you would have picked a better time to
state your” feelings” about a certain minister!! Dont’t worry> You asked for forgiveness at the beginning!!Smile! UGGH!!!. You have to preach Sunday!
No Worries!!!
FOget about it!!
You are doing a terrific job!

Comment on Don’t Just Love Me by Jim Porter

Jim Porter — Tue, 26 May 2009 15:37:25 +0000

Way to go, Doug. This musing was worth paying for, so when I see you next time make sure you ask for a few bucks.

In a little research on the subject of humility a few weeks ago, I found stats suggesting that (a) 49% of Americans have a Facebook/MySpace page; (b) that number increases to 74% for the 18-34 demographic, and (c) 16% of adults post an update to their page at least once a day. I concluded that if nobody else puts us on the proverbial pedestal, I’ll do it myself (and probably do a better job at it anyhow).

Thanks for some laughs this morning. Have a good day.

Comment on Testing Your Responses by Dr. Barb Orlowski

Dr. Barb Orlowski — Wed, 13 May 2009 22:37:00 +0000

Hi Doug,

I am also interested in your email address.

I quoted from your book in my dissertation
Literature Review.

You can access my dissertation at:
http://www.ChurchExiters.com.

Talk to you later, Dr. Barb

Comment on Testing Your Responses by Roger Olson

Roger Olson — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 22:13:23 +0000

Hey Doug,
How does a guy go about emailing you? I have a great new ministry outreach opportunity to show you called Aepheis groups. I can send you an epacket if you give me your email.
Thanks!
Roger Olson
938-1236