Author Archive for Charles Whitmire
Applying principle #3 - Visitors in your home
Closed Published by Charles Whitmire December 12th, 2007 on ConnexionSo… A couple weeks ago I started blogging in response to some posts from Vince. He gave his core values at Forefront. I like them and think we ought to incorporate them into Phoenix. The first two I covered earlier…
This morning’s service at Crestview went really well… Odd, but I typically do not like preaching Christmas messages. My last two however have been pretty fun to preach. I’ve been using powerpointsermons.com for slides and ideas. Good stuff! I’m having…
So in a couple of week’s, the band we’ve been using for Phoenix is no more. (They are disbanding - pardon the pun.) For the last couple of weeks we’ve been working our music contacts pretty hard, and it’s begun…
A hard drive is a hard drive is a hard drive
Closed Published by Charles Whitmire December 5th, 2007 on ConnexionMy Powerbook G4 hard drive crashed. Fortunately, I got all the important stuff off it first! I took it into an apple store this morning and they booted it and said my suspicions were right, “It’s dead.” They also gave…
This weekend I was having some technical issues with my much loved powerbook. It’s been a great laptop, but it suddenly started “not” working. In doing all the self help stuff that I can, I noticed that a bunch of…
I have never been scuba diving. I’ve also never done any “real” snorkeling. But in the intro to Calvin Miller’s book, Into the Depths of God, he makes an amazing analogy to our walk with God and snorkeling vs. scuba…
Over the last couple of years, I’ve had several conversations about “being missional.” Most of us intend for missional to mean living out the mission of Jesus. When we apply it to churches, it becomes “service.” Rarely does it really…
Couldn’t have said it any better myself…
Closed Published by Charles Whitmire November 29th, 2007 on ConnexionDavid Foster is a pretty cool guy that I’ve never met… I’d love to check out his church sometime, and I love his blog. His posts usually inspire me, but this one today almost made me cry. Here’s a link…
I’m sending out a shout out all the way to Lubbock this morning… My sister, Beth, just had a little girl - Abby. She’s a healthy 8lb little girl. Tim sounded very proud on the phone, of course, he had…