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During today's Willow Creek Leadership Summit, Adam Hamilton talked about the "moment of the maybe."  That's the moment of temptation when your mind begins to think "What if I did ..."  Or, "maybe it wouldn't be so bad." We never ask ourselves, "How will this end?" because we're not thinking down the road; we're stuck in the moment of the maybe.  And the moment of the maybe often seems quite good. We speak and the other person listens. We tell a joke and the other person laughs. They like us. They tell us we're funny. They tell us we're understanding. When you find yourself in having a moment of the maybe, what do you do?  RUN AWAY! There is nothing good to be gained from entertaining the "what if" questions.  The longer we linger, the more likely we are to move from maybe to a yes. Instead of asking "what…

MORBIDMAN meets the SUPREME DIVA! from Mountainview on Vimeo.Morbidman meets the Supreme Diva - a dessert theater presentation. A Mountainview Family Event - Friday August 20th at 7 p.m. w/ A Short History of Rock & Roll - by surprise musical guest.

One of the sections on our new site -- Making Love Last -- is a category entitled "Marriage Snippets."  It's a collection of short, pithy comments on marriage that I put together.   The idea is to provide readers short pieces of advice to quickly implement.  Most of us put off doing what we know we should do because it is either ... too difficult or the results take too long That's another way of saying a healthy marriage is not for the lazy or impatient. Take a look at the Marriage Snippets and feel free to send me your own.

Low cost outreach does not have to equal low quality outreach. In these challenging economic times, many churches are having to either scale back the size of their marketing, rethink it, or discontinue it altogether.  When discretionary dollars get tight, marketing dollars often give-way to more immediate, tangible ministry needs. As we're gearing up for our fall outreach series, we've been brainstorming low-to-no cost ways of promoting the series.  While not every church may have the staff to pull all of these things off, they may have volunteers who can.  Here's how we'll be promoting the series for little or no dollars. Unique URL. We created a special site just for the series: www.makinglovelast.org.  This allows us to market the series more intuitively while also building up SEO (search engine optimization) value for certain keywords and phrases. Email Newsletter / Autoresponders. We've created a free four-part email newsletter called "Four…