Seeing Life From God’s Perspective The decision to follow Jesus puts us at odds with the prevailing values of our culture. It has always been that way. It was that way for Jesus and his first disciples. It was that way during the Roman Empire. It’s still that way today. The upside down way of God … Redefines success Offers true freedom Turns weakness into strength Encourages generosity Calls for courage Join us for this new series at Mountainview starting August 14 and 15.
Read More
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.
Read More
"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
Read More
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!
Read More
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…
Read More