BrandFreak.com has an interesting post about how The Village People reacted to YMCA's recent decision to shorten their brand name to "The Y." For year's I've heard people refer to working out at "the Y." It's an interesting article, not just for the Village People connection, but from a branding and social media perspective.
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"There are two ways to get enough: One is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less." -- G.K. Chesterton
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Brendan, our IT/missions and outreach guy, has created a cool way to track our Mountainview Ukraine mission team. It's Mountainview Mission Trip Updates and it allows you read updates, view pictures, and even see where our team is on a Google map. It uses Wordpress as the blogging software and our team simply updates the site by sending an email to a dedicated address. That simplifies the process and allows them to send quick updates without having to login, etc. Check it out!
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I must admit, it felt nice. For much of my message this past weekend, I preached while sitting on a couch on the stage. A nice leather couch with cushy cushions. All I lacked was a good cup of strong coffee. I was speaking about how Moses fled Egypt after killing a man (see Exodus 2) and then began to argue with God when God called him to go back to Egypt (see Exodus 3 and 4). Arguing might be a strong term. He was making excuses ... why me? Who am I? What if they don't listen to me? What if they don't believe me? If we're not careful, we can grow comfortable in the space between our disobedience and where God wants us to be. With each missed opportunity to get back in the game, it becomes easier to stay on the sidelines. The couch begins to feel…
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As I mentioned in my last post, getting better at a skill or task or relationship is often incremental rather than monumental. Breakthroughs happen one step at a time; maybe one inch at a time. It's the small decisions made correctly over sustained periods of time that build the momentum we need to move forward. Unfortunately, we are conditioned to look for the one key thing -- the one secret or step -- that will produce a major change. We expect to get better immediately. We expect to improve by quantum leaps. We expect our relationships to magically correct themselves and lead to endless bliss. While we wait for the monumental to appear, we miss the incremental changes that are well within our grasp. Perhaps a failing marriage cannot be transformed overnight. That's looking for a monumental change to save the day (and you're probably hoping to buy real estate…
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