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Episode 116: Who Doesn?t Like Free?

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Doug Fields, Matt McGill, and Josh Griffin are back, but no Jana.

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Random Randomness

- Mark Oestreicheris back to blogging! His blog has been a longtime favorite of mine, and I’m glad he’s back at it.

- Weekend Update: This past weekend we kicked off week one of “Piece of My Mind” where we ask one of our volunteers to speak each weekend on any subject they want. Our first week was amazing.

- Since I’m not teaching for three weeks, I am ditching Sunday services at the Lake Forest campus and visiting one of our regional campus youth ministries each week. On Sunday I visited our original regional campus in San Clemente.

- Speaking of regional campuses….my heart is torn on this new trend (”trend” may not be the right word as I think they may be here to stay). I love the ability for successful churches to expand their reach by expanding into regionals, but I also wonder why these same churches don’t just send a pastor they trust to the same community and let him/her plant a church of their own? That being said, I am super impressed at the way Saddleback has approached our regional strategy. Our regional campuses are much more autonomous than many I have seen.

- Saw “The Box” a couple nights ago. I can’t decide if I absolutely loved it or absolutely hated it. It had some really good spiritual themes and I think it could have been a great flick but there was a whole layer of unnecessary plot, in my opinion. Is it a remake?

- I feel [...]

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Win a Website Makeover

Let’s face it, a lot of our church websites need help. Most of the time they aren’t up to the design and functionality we would like. Well, the guys over at Snapshot Web would like to help fix that. They are giving away a year worth of hosting, plus a custom design just for you. Just follow the link and take their quick survey to be entered. Who knows, a new church website could be in your future.

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Soul Food! If you love yourself, feed yourself!!!

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Envy, Articulated Honestly

Almost a year ago now I did a message on the sin of envy in my church. It’s deep rooted in all of us. But there seems to be a whole other level for women. Jealousy and envy is a huge issue – for some reason more so than most guys. I’ve tried to talk to numerous women about this issue, all say it’s a massive problem, but few have answers or can articulate the issue in their own life concisely and with complete honesty…until I read this article. If you’re working with college age women, you have to read this article entitled, The Sneaky Trick of Envy.

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God runs through it!