A ballad written by Mr. T for his mother, and all mother’s in the world.
Mr. T pity’s the fool that don’t treat his mother right.
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“Making disciples is the supernatural overflow of being a disciple. Proclaiming the love of Christ is the overflow of sharing in the life of Christ. And I’m convinced many people in our churches are simply missing the life of Christ. And a lot of it has to do with what we’ve sold them as the gospel, i.e. ‘pray this prayer’, ‘accept Jesus into your heart’,’invite Christ into your life’. Should it not concern us that there is no such superstitious prayer in the New Testament? Should it not concern us that the Bible never uses the phrase ‘accept Jesus into your heart’?
- David Platt
Pew Internet has done several studies on social media, the latest statistics came out at the end of March 2012.
Here are a few graphs:
You can download the full report here, but here are the highlights.
- In May 2011, 69% of women were users of social networking sites, compared with 60% of men.
- Women are also more active in their use of these sites, with more than half of female internet users using social networking sites on a typical day (54%), compared with 42% of male internet users.
- Fully 95% of all teens ages 12-17 are now online and 80% of those online teens are users of social media sites.
- Users under age 30 are significantly more likely to use social networking sites when compared with every other adult age group. As of May 2011, over eight in ten internet users ages 18-29 use social networking sites (83%), compared with seven in ten 30-49 year-olds (70%), half of 50-64 year-olds (51%), and a third of those age 65 and older (33%).
- 63% of social networking site users have deleted people from their “friends” lists, up from 56% in 2009;
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Today Acts 29 announced that Mark Driscoll has stepped down as President of their church planting network. Matt Chandler is now president, and Acts 29 headquarters will move from Seattle to Dallas.
And many have asked concerning whether Sojourn Church is still a member church of Acts 29.
My pastor, Daniel Montgomery, answers this question over at the Sojourn Network blog —-> Why We Left Acts 29.
As leaders, it is always important to be reading and learning from other people in different tribes. TED talks provides a great opportunity to listen to some of the most innovative leaders of our time. Below is a list from University Online of some of the essential TED talks for future leaders.
