Ok, it's my first book to review and...it's a cook book. I know. What were you thinking, Kerry?
Well, it was an early Christmas gift to my cookbook collector (but never a user) wife. But she WILL LOVE this cookbook! Dawn Hall's Busy People's Fast and Frugal Cookbook is excellent!
Let's start at the beginning...cookbooks need to be organized and categorized. DONE!
They need to be diverse in the menu offerings. DONE!
They need to be simple that a man can do it. DONE!
Hall goes a bit further for this caveman. On a side column of each menu states the pots or pans required, a departmentalized grocery list, time to cook, and, to keep my great manly figure, a full listing of health information including carbs and calories.
And the food's great! Alright, it's more than meat and potatoes...it's refined...and it took no more than 30 minutes, period!
Great menus. Great information. Great cookbook.
Wednesday, October 28, 2009
Monday, October 5, 2009
The 4 P's of Ministry
I'm a proud graduate of The University of Southern Mississippi...THAT'S RIGHT, the same place that passed Brett Favre. What an awesome school!
It was an enlightening time and a great time to be alive. I was involved with Temple Baptist Church, the Revelation Ensemble, worked at the best restaurant in Hattiesburg (at the time), Chesterfield's, and was a Marketing Major.
One of the few things that I remember from my Marketing classes was The 4 P's of Marketing...Product, Place, Promotion, and Price...what you sold, where you sold it, how you advertised it, and how much it was. There are very few things that are THIS simple, but it worked then and is continuing to work.
In our Christian walk, we have a few of these as well. Such as ACTS for the steps of prayer (Adoration, Confession, Thanksgiving, and Supplication) or FAITH evangelism (primarily, Forgiveness, Acceptance, Impossible, Turn, and Heaven).
My prayer time this morning gave me another. The 4 P's of Ministry...Pray, Prepare, Praise, and Present.
Prayer...it should be a daily pleasure of relating with our Lord...a time to converse. If you don't know how to pray or journal, that's OK. In Luke 11 it is recorded that the Disciples didn't know either. Dig this, they asked Jesus to teach them. Imagine learning from the MAN! Remember, if Jesus did it, it's probably worth doing.
Prepare...we study for tests, take work home to ready ourselves for a sales presentation. As a worship leader, I must prepare for our times of worship. In this preparation, journaling is essential. It keeps your mind focused on conversing with God and HIS preparation of you for the day and upcoming ministry opportunity.
Praise...how else can we praise God if we hadn't prayed and prepared our hearts, minds, teams for the ultimate Love Feast! Isaiah 42:14 (MSG) says "I've been quiet long enough. I've held back, biting my tongue. But now I'm letting loose, letting go..." Lift It Up!
Present...it doesn't stop at the exit doors of church. "Go Ye therefore..." Why do we keep what we have to ourselves? Sorry, but doesn't the Bylaws state that we can't fellowship with sinners? Not Hardly!
Share your joy from when you Pray to God, Prepare for God, Praise of God, and Present our God.
Come on folks...(looking in the mirror again here)...What are your 4P's of Ministry.
It was an enlightening time and a great time to be alive. I was involved with Temple Baptist Church, the Revelation Ensemble, worked at the best restaurant in Hattiesburg (at the time), Chesterfield's, and was a Marketing Major.
One of the few things that I remember from my Marketing classes was The 4 P's of Marketing...Product, Place, Promotion, and Price...what you sold, where you sold it, how you advertised it, and how much it was. There are very few things that are THIS simple, but it worked then and is continuing to work.
In our Christian walk, we have a few of these as well. Such as ACTS for the steps of prayer (Adoration, Confession, Thanksgiving, and Supplication) or FAITH evangelism (primarily, Forgiveness, Acceptance, Impossible, Turn, and Heaven).
My prayer time this morning gave me another. The 4 P's of Ministry...Pray, Prepare, Praise, and Present.
Prayer...it should be a daily pleasure of relating with our Lord...a time to converse. If you don't know how to pray or journal, that's OK. In Luke 11 it is recorded that the Disciples didn't know either. Dig this, they asked Jesus to teach them. Imagine learning from the MAN! Remember, if Jesus did it, it's probably worth doing.
Prepare...we study for tests, take work home to ready ourselves for a sales presentation. As a worship leader, I must prepare for our times of worship. In this preparation, journaling is essential. It keeps your mind focused on conversing with God and HIS preparation of you for the day and upcoming ministry opportunity.
Praise...how else can we praise God if we hadn't prayed and prepared our hearts, minds, teams for the ultimate Love Feast! Isaiah 42:14 (MSG) says "I've been quiet long enough. I've held back, biting my tongue. But now I'm letting loose, letting go..." Lift It Up!
Present...it doesn't stop at the exit doors of church. "Go Ye therefore..." Why do we keep what we have to ourselves? Sorry, but doesn't the Bylaws state that we can't fellowship with sinners? Not Hardly!
Share your joy from when you Pray to God, Prepare for God, Praise of God, and Present our God.
Come on folks...(looking in the mirror again here)...What are your 4P's of Ministry.
Saturday, October 3, 2009
Is Being "Obsessive Compulsive" a Good Thing?
There he was. Sitting in my office. He was probably one of the most talented ministers I've ever known. He had the abilities to make a powerful impact for the work of God and for the church. However, he had a problem...and I couldn't share it with him...and he would never see it.
He was obsessive compulsive.
Because of this, he was hindering his every efforts in making the impact. BUT, God created him and I should accept him and help direct and train him in finding HOW God can use his talents. And when the opportunity came, WOW!
This minister had a special talent of immediately seeing the sequence of events that have to take place for something to happen. I mean, he was a walking flow chart, a running Meta Model! Really...Totally annoying, maybe, but totally awesome
Yes, well I think it...I think being obsessive compulsive can be a good thing when an opportunity came that utilized these unique gifts.
If God gives us a vision of what we need to do, I'd bring him in and share with him what needed to be done and what the desired outcome should look like, and within a very few minutes he had in his head the steps needed to take, resources required, which ministry teams needed to be involved and time necessary to get it done. Even when and how it needed to be presented and promoted in the church. Astonishing! (And I could have been jealous)
@stevenfurtick of Elevation Church in Charlotte, NC, said recently in his blog that if he were to start/plant a church again, his first hire would be a Pastor of GCD, Getting Crap Done. Well, the title is a big shocking for me, but that's what is. One that can see a picture of the what, how, why, and when things need to get done.
I'm glad we have someone like that.
Each of us have specific talents, yet God allows us to get frustrated by their talents.
But can't we be frustrated by our own talents? Yes, you get frustrated by your weaknesses, but by your talents? If we have a special talent but nobody sees it...nobody recognizes it.
As Pastors and Ministers, we must find the talents that God has given us within our midst. They are SO diverse, yet perfect for God's work and ministry.
Have you met someone like this? Try looking in the mirror...it's amazing what you can see when you begin. Being Obsessive Compulsive is a good thing!
He was obsessive compulsive.
Because of this, he was hindering his every efforts in making the impact. BUT, God created him and I should accept him and help direct and train him in finding HOW God can use his talents. And when the opportunity came, WOW!
This minister had a special talent of immediately seeing the sequence of events that have to take place for something to happen. I mean, he was a walking flow chart, a running Meta Model! Really...Totally annoying, maybe, but totally awesome
Yes, well I think it...I think being obsessive compulsive can be a good thing when an opportunity came that utilized these unique gifts.
If God gives us a vision of what we need to do, I'd bring him in and share with him what needed to be done and what the desired outcome should look like, and within a very few minutes he had in his head the steps needed to take, resources required, which ministry teams needed to be involved and time necessary to get it done. Even when and how it needed to be presented and promoted in the church. Astonishing! (And I could have been jealous)
@stevenfurtick of Elevation Church in Charlotte, NC, said recently in his blog that if he were to start/plant a church again, his first hire would be a Pastor of GCD, Getting Crap Done. Well, the title is a big shocking for me, but that's what is. One that can see a picture of the what, how, why, and when things need to get done.
I'm glad we have someone like that.
Each of us have specific talents, yet God allows us to get frustrated by their talents.
But can't we be frustrated by our own talents? Yes, you get frustrated by your weaknesses, but by your talents? If we have a special talent but nobody sees it...nobody recognizes it.
As Pastors and Ministers, we must find the talents that God has given us within our midst. They are SO diverse, yet perfect for God's work and ministry.
Have you met someone like this? Try looking in the mirror...it's amazing what you can see when you begin. Being Obsessive Compulsive is a good thing!
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