the glorious exchange

Here’s the last post of my 2007 blog wrap-up. I’m beginning by reviewing my life this past year, through by highlighting some of my posts from throughout the year. Here’s the fourth quarter (Oct-Dec). You can find the previous post here.

October

We made some changes at Harmony with regard to Echo Group (looking back, they were much needed). I also had a really busy week, and a great turn out at Echo Groups during October.

November

I went over how we use Facebook at Harmony Church, posted some thoughts on ECU, the local university, read The Reformed Pastor, and announced the launching of a new Echo Group in January! I also posted some hardcore Bible verses, well worth checking out.

December

This month! I talked about how offensive the Gospel is, along with mused about how well things are going. I’ve also got some huge news to share soon…

Here’s the third post of my 2007 wrap-up. I’m beginning by reviewing my life this past year, through by highlighting some of my posts from throughout the year. Here’s the third quarter (Jul-Sep). You can find the previous post here.

July

July was a busy month for me away from the site. I was working in Greensboro for a couple of weeks, without time to really blog. Some major posts included communicating our dreams and one on Christo-centric hermeneutics. And just for fun, here’s a early month mind-dump.

August

August was a busy month. We started Echo Groups! They went really well, and still are. Growing slowly but surely. I posted about being a church that matters and what was going on in the church. I got really ticked at a local church. I think I repented…

September

September was a busy month. I talked about where I hoped we’d be in the long-term, people I don’t like when I’m not Christian (tongue-in-cheek), and I even wrote a Psalm. I also posted some resources on maintaining spiritual discipline. 

The last few months coming soon!

Here’s the second post of my 2007 wrap-up. I’m beginning by reviewing my life this past year, through by highlighting some of my posts from throughout the year. Here’s the second quarter (Apr-Jun). You can find January through March here.

April

April was a blog-filled month for me for some reason. Part of it was the National New Church Conference in Orlando.  I reviewed a pretty good book about the beliefs of the emerging church and we wrapped up the book of Matthew in the college class I teach. It was a great message, by the way. The Cross is always powerful. I was also contemplating some different names for the church in Greenville. Guess what we went with . I also surveyed the Uptown area to get some info on who lived in the area. Here’re the surveys, along with the initial data and my conclusions from the data. I posted our vision for the church and attended another Acts29 Luncheon (notes). To end the month with a bang, I took what was practically a two-week vacation: first to Oriental, NC (miniature Charleston), and then to Orlando, Florida. Check out the conference notes here.

May

I posted some thoughts about Bill Hybels and Mark Driscoll to start May off. I also reviewed Spiderman 3 through the lens of the Gospel, posted about a potential Great Awakening, and started posting the Top 15 Church Plants from my point of view.

June

Posted about using the iPod to teach and wrapped up the Top 15 Church Plants series. I also posted 33 Podcasts that I listen to. One of my favorite posts was this one on leadership from the book of Acts. Here’s another post on leadership. I also started blogging through the book of Amos, which I will post the links to in the next post. Finally, I headed to the mountains with Miranda’s family (we had a blast.)

So that time is near: the time for year-end lists. This is the first of many of mine. I’ll begin by reviewing my life this past year, through by highlighting some of my posts from throughout the year. Here’s the first quarter (Jan-Mar).

January

I attended an Acts 29 regional on the 10th. (Notes I, Notes II). Good stuff there. Also, I posted the first 20 of my life goals (more coming soon) and I wrote a post on my design philosophy, which I still adhere to. Lastly, I wrapped up with a post on the Top 20 Christian Blogs You Should Be Reading. As a note, at this point in the year, I could’ve swore we were preparing far in advance to move to DC and plant a church. Little did I know what was coming…

February

I wrapped up Biblical principles for church growth in this post on How to Be a Successful Church and then a couple of days later realized how much I love my future wife, Miranda. I also found out that I was invited to blog the National New Church Conference. Would love to do it again, hint, hint.

March

I got a job at Moe’s Southwest Grill in March. It lasted about two months, then I was cut loose for reasons still unknown to me, or any other co-worker at the restaurant. I also picked my Final Four (here) .  I also had a pretty diesel post on Worship in Church Planting. I took a visit up to Vintage21 on the 25th, and loved it. Here are my thoughts. At the end of the month, I posted some resources for monitoring culture, 10 more blogs you should be reading, and I broke the news that God had called me here to Greenville, at least for the time being.

What a winter 2007!