Excerpt From A Letter of Consolation To A Friend

Com­put­er crash­es are hor­ri­ble. It’s as though an old-time preach­er was ambushed by an eras­er-wield­ing demon in the night who removed all the notes from the mar­gins of his Bible.

Things Which Interested Glen Last Week

Things I book­marked last week on del.icio.us.

Dis­claimer: these links are post­ed auto­mat­i­cal­ly using the excel­lent yawd hack and are mere­ly things that were inter­est­ing enough to book­mark for future reference–I may or may not agree with the views expressed by the linked pages. In fact, I may not have even read them yet.

Crunch All You Want, We’ll Make More

I real­ly like the fake church sign in this arti­cle from Lark News. Thanks to Church Mar­ket­ing Sucks for notic­ing the sto­ry.

Agenda for next Advisory Leadership Team meeting

As promised, here’s the agen­da for Chi Alpha’s upcom­ing Advi­so­ry Lead­er­ship Team meet­ing.

Agen­da:

1. Review XA 2010 Imple­men­ta­tion Team Work

  • Orga­ni­za­tion­al chart and def­i­n­i­tions
  • Exec­u­tive Lead­er­ship Team, mem­ber­ship and dura­tion, fre­quen­cy of meet­ings
  • Area Direc­tor posi­tion and area maps
  • Task group goals sum­ma­rized
    • Added Non tra­di­tion­al, church led and stu­dent led task group
    • Iden­ti­fied Inter­na­tion­al Stu­dent Min­istry Work Group and Dis­trict Resource Team as sim­i­lar to task groups to report activ­i­ty and goals.

2. Cal­en­dar

  • The World Mis­sion Sum­mit
  • DXAR Con­fer­ence
  • Cam­pus Min­is­ters Con­fer­ence

3. Com­mu­ni­ty of mis­sion state­ment

4. Mis­sion­ary fur­lough sur­vey

5. Cam­pus Min­is­ters Con­fer­ence

  • Lar­ry Crabb
  • Patrick Lencioni

6. Sug­ges­tions for Depart­ment Direc­tors

  • Stu­dent Ministries/ or Stu­dent Mis­sions- E. Scott Mar­tin
  • Inter­na­tion­al Stu­dent Min­istry – Jer­ry Gib­son
  • Stu­dent Mobi­liza­tion –
  • Cam­pus evan­ge­lism –
  • Per­son­nel – Bob Marks
  • Train­ing and Resource
  • Com­mu­ni­ca­tions

At this point I don’t have much info beyond that. I assume the names for CMC are poten­tial speak­ers.

As you will note, we’ve cre­at­ed sev­er­al new depart­ments and so we need to recruit peo­ple to those roles. Sug­ges­tions are wel­come. You can email me, call me, or leave a com­ment on the blog (just remem­ber that com­ments can be read by every­one). I’m there to rep­re­sent folks on the field, and I can do that more effec­tive­ly if some folks on the field let me know their per­spec­tive on things. 🙂

Our Staff Reading Selections

Eat This Book: A Conversation in the Art of Spiritual ReadingCollege of the Overwhelmed : The Campus Mental Health Crisis and What to Do About ItThe Other Six Days: Vocation, Work, and Ministry in Biblical PerspectiveIn the Name of Jesus : Reflections on Christian LeadershipLectures to My StudentsNicomachean Ethics, 2nd Ed. (Hackett Publishing Co.)


These are the books our min­istry team select­ed for our read­ing group.

We’re start­ing with the Nico­machean Ethics first. Paula and I spent some time look­ing at dif­fer­ent trans­la­tions (like the Bible, you can get Aris­tos­tle in King James through CEV fla­vor­ing). We set­tled on Ter­ence Irwin’s trans­la­tion as the most read­able.

Encouraging Email From A Student

I just got a won­der­ful­ly encour­ag­ing email:

I haven’t been to a chi alpha meet­ing since that one time at the ‘obey your par­ents’ ser­mon, but I check out the mp3s every now and then and I think your ser­mons are great. I’d like to be more descrip­tive than that, but I’m fair­ly brain-dead tonight (can you say sleep­dep?). Any­ways, a big thanks to who­ev­er does the record­ing and web­site work…I’m LOVING the google videos!

The poten­tial hair­style pic­tures were…great. More than great…really great. Maybe I should go to bed. I’ll try (hard­er) to actu­al­ly come to a meet­ing before the quar­ter runs out!

Occa­sion­al­ly I won­der whether any stu­dents ever real­ly lis­ten to the stuff we put online. I guess they do.

It’s amaz­ing how a lit­tle thing like that can total­ly make my day.

Mess With Glen’s Head

You now have a chance to mess with Glen’s head. That’s right–you get to pick my next hair­style.

Why? I have a dilem­ma: I am bald­ing yet not bald. I don’t know what to do.

Almost any­thing (empha­sis on almost) will be con­sid­ered.

Assum­ing there’s no evi­dence of vote fraud (always a per­il on the inter­net), I com­mit to giv­ing the win­ning hair­style a sin­cere try.

So what are you wait­ing for? Mess with my head!

Einstein Endorsement

Cour­tesy of the cool Ein­stein dynam­ic chalk­board gen­er­a­tor.

Dialectic

One of my stu­dents (stage name Dialec­tic) just released a rap album. You can pre­view it at MySpace. Or as we hip-hop­pers like to call it, MySchiz­zle.

How Not To Be Holy

I just read a great lit­tle med­i­ta­tion on holi­ness called Whack-a-mole and Sin Man­age­ment in Lead­er­ship Jour­nal. When I checked to see if it was online I dis­cov­ered that the author has a blog.