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BOOMERS STEP ASIDE?
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Last week's edition of Newsweek magazine included a 2-page article at the very back, written by long-time columnist Anna Quindlen. For 9 years, Anna has been writing "The Last Word" piece every other week for that magazine. While I don't...
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AN OUTPOURING OF GENEROSITY
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Yesterday we received two offerings at Willow Creek - the regular one about 20 minutes into the service, and a second offering at the end. One hundred per cent of the second offering will go directly to the under-resourced in Africa and Latin America...
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SOLIDARITY WITH THE HUNGRY AND THIRSTY
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Our church launched a 3-week Celebration of Hope campaign yesterday, with a focus this year on serving the under-resourced who are both hungry and thirsty. The campaign includes several aspects, including 17,000 volunteers packing food bags to go to Zimbabwe...
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Walls For Easter
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For the past several Easters, our creative team at Willow Creek has sought to find an image that we could leverage to help tell the Easter story and to provide a visual anchor for the entire service. I think this practice dates back to the year we created...
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Pastoral Security in the Pulpit
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As I'm sure most people are now aware, a pastor was shot and killed in the pulpit last Sunday in downstate Illinois. My heart goes out to his family and his congregation. I also believe this tragedy raises the question of security in our churches...
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Throwaway Worship Question in Auckland
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I'm preparing to leave New Zealand, where I've been investing some days in the lives of arts leaders and pastors. Today, in a coaching session with about thirty leaders, one of them asked about the beginning of a Sunday morning worship service...
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The Power of Collaboration
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As I sat in a creative meeting yesterday for our church's weekend services, we began, as we always do, by evaluating the previous Sunday service. We realized how much stronger the entire experience was for our congregation largely because of one key...
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Baby It's COLD Outside!
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There's cold....and then there's COLD! Yesterday and today the wind chills ranged from 20 to 30 degrees below zero here in Chicago. I've lived in this area all of my life, and you'd think that would make me accustomed to this kind of frigid...
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Post Thanksgiving Thoughts
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I am grateful to report that I survived last Tuesday's colonoscopy, and to my husband's great disappointment, I didn't say anything too wacky when I was on the drugs. We had a wonderful gathering for Thanksgiving which included welcoming home...
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Passing the Baton
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I'm still giving thanks for how God worked at our weekend services. We are in a series about Influence, and this weekend was focusing on the potential of the next generation to make a powerful difference - how God often uses young people to do his...
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The Economy and Our Church Budgets
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The news just keeps getting worse on the economy, and many of our churches are right in the middle of the budgeting process. Today I participated in one of those meetings where everyone tries to be hopeful and visionary while also facing the realities...
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Call to Worship
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Every Wednesday at noon these days I walk to the other end of the Willow Campus from my office at the Willow Creek Association to join the creative team at my church who are entrusted with planning the weekend services. What is different from the past...
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The Beauty of Mennonite Harmony
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I invested this past weekend serving the Neffsville Mennonite Church in Lancaster Pennsylvania, teach workshops all day Saturday and bringing the message on Sunday. At the end of the Sunday morning service, Pastor Harry Jarrett came up to deliver the...
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Timing Is Everything
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I was talking on the phone yesterday with Jason Hatley, the Worship Arts Director of the Journey Church in New York City. He mentioned that they are just starting this weekend a new series about finances - and this was planned a year ago! I told him that...
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The Future of Drama in the Church
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I just spent a long lunch (our quarterly Chicago area Brown Bag Lunch) with arts leaders from local churches exploring the future of drama in the church. There are some who wonder, or loudly declare, that drama is no longer culturally relevant in a worship...
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