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Goal-Setting

Since lots of folks are listening to Driscoll's Reverse Engineering Your Life talk from the 2006 A29 Boot Camp, I thought I would offer some resources on goal-setting while goals and reverse engineering are on your brain. These have been quite helpful and thought provoking in for me over the past two years.

Gladwell on Prodigies & Late Bloomers

Age Before Beauty

On February 21st, Malcolm Gladwell gave a talk about the phenomenon of prodigies and late bloomers in art. The event was part of the New Yorker Nights, a series hosted by the Columbia University Arts Initiative and The New Yorker.

Gladwell discusses the long road to brilliance in contrast to the instant success of prodigies. I have only listened to the first of the three parts, and am eager to hear the rest (I'm a sucker for Fleetwood Mac stories!)

(looks like Daling's comments about the cawley liturgical calendar are right on)

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Accordance Releases Ancient Christian Commentary Module

Ancient Christian Commentary on Scripture Vol. 1

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Assorted Flickr Gadgetry

spell with flickr
retrievr
Clockr (Windows)
ten best flickr mashups (wired)

Malcolm Gladwell is Blogging

Malcolm Gladwell's Blog (& he's a typepad user!)

In the past year I have often been asked why I don’t have a blog. My answer was always that I write so much, already, that I don’t have time to write anything else. But, as should be obvious, I’ve now changed my mind. I have come (belatedly) to the conclusion that a blog can be a very valuable supplement to my books and the writing I do for the New Yorker. What I think I’d like to do is to use this forum to elaborate and comment on and correct and amend things that I have already written. If you look on my website, on the "Blink" page, you’ll see an expanded notes and bibliography, which mostly consists of copies of emails sent to me by readers. Well, I think I’d like to start posting reader comments for everything I write, and this is a perfect place for that.
There are also times when I think I’ve made mistakes, or oversights, and I’d like to use this space to explain myself and set things right.

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Willy Porter Friday

I saw Willy Porter for the first time the night finals ended during my first semester of college. House of Blues had billed him as "Slick Willy Porter" and we went expecting to see a 116 year old black man singing the blues. Needless to say, he didn't quite fit that bill.

Since then, he has been one of my favorite live musicians and I enjoyed the benefit of being a bachelor with few responsibilities next door to his home town of Milwaukee for almost nine years. Unfortunately, he doesn't make it Vancouver as often as he plays in his own backyard (though he is coming to Seattle April 8!).

But, for those of us less fortunate than Wong (who saw him just a few days ago) and Davidson (who can see him twice next week if he wants), all is not lost. There are two Willy treats that can make your Friday a bit better. Someone has uploaded a phenomenal live video to Google, and Willy's website is offering a free mp3 of his new song Valentine (a little cheesier, weirder, and more pop-y than my stock Willy favorites-- but free).

My advice to you this Friday? 1. Watch the video. 2. Buy High Wire Live on your way home from work. 3. Pop popcorn. 4. Enjoy the weekend.

RELATED: Katie and I saw Justin King open for Willy at the Old Town School of Folk Music three years ago. I can't say anything for his albums, but if you want to him in all his doubleneck acoustic glory, watch knock on wood.

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Why The Puritans Still Matter

Physicians of the Soul // Packer, Christianity Today

Ligon Duncan on Reading & Study for Pastors

I have resisted the temptation to link Ligon Duncan's seven part series at the Together for the Gospel Blog on the place of study and reading in the life of a pastor until he finished it. These posts provide excellent wisdom and guidance for how to cultivate a life of study as a pastor. He tackles the issues of why, when, how much, and for what purpose pastors should study and be deliberate about it.

Pastors- Studying and Reading (1)
Pastors- Studying and Reading (2)
Pastors- Studying and Reading (3)
Pastors- Studying and Reading (4)
Pastors- Studying and Reading (5)
Pastors- Studying and Reading (6)
Pastors- Studying and Reading (7)

Putting Pen to Paper Anew

Putting Pen to Paper Anew, Dan Morse (Washington Post)

That urge -- to take command over a tidy, small expanse of paper, to quickly write in your own hand -- has turned the smartly marketed literary throwback into one of the odder trends of the instant-information age. Moleskine use has erupted in Washington and elsewhere, driven in part by a subculture of tech-savvy people otherwise electronically gadgeted to the hilt.

Amen!

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Church, Gospel, & Culture // Vintage Driscoll Audio

I consistently get emails in response to my Missional Ecclesiology readers guide asking if I'm aware of any sermons/conference lectures that treat these issues in a systematic fashion. Beyond the excellent A29 Boot Camp sessions (2005) and the (forthcoming) A29 2006 Boot Camp sessions, the only real source I'm aware of is, to my knowledge, no longer accessible on the internet. It is an old (the first?) church planting boot camp at Mars Hill. I got another email today asking the same question, and so I decided to upload these sessions in hope that others will benefit from them as I have.

The sessions below are some of the best comprehensive teaching I have heard on the theological foundation of the church and a practical implementation of a missional ecclesiology. I downloaded these sometime in late 2000 or early 2001. My guess is that they simply didn't make the transition over from Mars Hill's old .fm site. (If A29 removed these for a reason, please let me know and I'll take them down.)

Church, Gospel, & Culture part 1
Church, Gospel, & Culture part 2
Church, Gospel, & Culture part 3
Church, Gospel, & Culture part 4
Church, Gospel, & Culture part 5
Church, Gospel, & Culture part 6

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