June 2008

One Lesson I Learned

June 16, 2008

Wow!  This past Friday was a rather big day and I came home feeling like I pretty much blew it! (Not a good feeling by the way.) A few weeks ago I had an idea for a very simple video in which I presented the origins and vision of our church plant.  I wanted to [...]

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Buncha Stuff Sunday

June 15, 2008

I sure do miss Tim Russert this morning.  What an awesome man he was.  He was the best newsman on television, but the story of how great of a friend, father, son, husband, and humanitarian he was is now coming to light. Our church plant will be beginning regular small groups and launch team meetings [...]

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Happy Father’s Day!

June 15, 2008

Like Donald Miller details in this great book, I grew up without a father.  While I can’t point to any one man to say that this person has been like a father to me, many men have been fatherly and have given me support across the years.  Some have been mentors, some have been like [...]

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Tim Russert – What a Life…What a Loss!

June 13, 2008

Tim Russert was a hero of mine.  I always found him to be such a man of integrity.  He loved God like crazy and valued his faith more than anyone I can think of in the mainstream press.  He loved his family, he worked hard as hell at his job, was low maintenance, fiercely loyal [...]

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Filiming a Vision Video

June 13, 2008

In a few hours I will be filming a vision video for our church plant with this great, young filmmaker. I will be telling the story about where the vision for the Courageous Church came from nearly 11 years ago.  We’ll shoot that portion from the abandoned church that I show here.  It’s a rough [...]

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Have You Ever Seen a Slave?

June 12, 2008

In 2001 I attended a United Nations conference in Durban, South Africa as a part of a student delegation from Morehouse College.  I remember hearing a woman speak to the general conference about how she was a slave just a few months prior to this conference and had been forced into a life of servitude [...]

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TABCOM

June 12, 2008

When I saw a bunch of hits on my blog today coming from TABCOM, I was miffed.  It sounds like some type of military command post.  Far from it, it’s the website for The American Baptist Churches of Massachusetts and they are featuring my post on 3 Ways Churches Could Respond to High Gas Prices.  [...]

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The Origins of The Courageous Church – Part 2

June 11, 2008

For years I would drive through the Bluff (see post below), scope out the land, and dream about how big of a testimony it would be for a courageous church with courageous people to produce real change in that community.  In those years, I learned two key lessons (other than the fact that the police [...]

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The Abandoned Church

June 10, 2008

Here are the photos of the abandoned church that I describe in the post below.  It was abandoned 11 years ago and still stands there as a sign of spiritual emptiness on the busiest corner of the Bluff.  I snapped these shots on my way home from the AUC library.  It’s rough dude.  Real rough.  [...]

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The Origins of The Courageous Church – Part 1

June 10, 2008

How and why a church begins can tell you a lot about where it’s going.  On this Friday I will be filming a simple promo video where I talk about the origins of the Courageous Church, how we got to where we are today, and where we’re going in the days and months ahead.  I [...]

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Laptop Cord has a Short

June 9, 2008

We don’t have a desktop in our house. We have two laptops and both of the power cords have shorts in them. One of them is totally dead and I can get a little power in the other one, but it comes in and out. With a brand new phone, it was a struggle for [...]

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Not Photogenic

June 9, 2008

I’m not that photogenic.  No one has ever told me something like, "Hey Shaun.  You take great photos."  I really do give it my best shot every time though. In about an hour I am meeting with my buddy Ross Knight to discuss an upcoming photo session I am having with him this month.  He [...]

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Buncha Stuff Sunday

June 8, 2008

Went to the 11am @ Buckhead Church today.  Rai and I love it there.  We normally go to the 9am, but had a harder time get out of the house this morning.  It was more crowded and more diverse, but we still prefer the early start of the 9am service.  I think we will stay [...]

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As American as an Air Show

June 7, 2008

Here in a few hours, the King Team is heading off to an air show @ Peachtree Dekalb Airport.  I just remembered that seven years ago, my wife was pregnant with our first child, I was 22 years old and was working security at this same airport.  I hated that job, but it paid the [...]

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Who Needs Dr. Seuss When Obama is On Sale?

June 5, 2008
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When We Will Begin Sunday Services

June 5, 2008

The two questions I probably get asked the most about our church plant are: 1.  Where will The Courageous Church be holding its Sunday services? and 2.  When will The Courageous Church begin Sunday services? Later this week I will begin to detail our thought about where we will hold services.  We have scouted out [...]

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Bishop TD Jakes on the Barack Obama Victory

June 5, 2008

Plenty of my blogging buddies are very conservative, but love Bishop TD Jakes because his appeal crosses party lines.   He has been pretty mum on the presidential primaries, but just wrote this article for CNN about his very real thoughts on the Obama victory.  You can also read it below. "Last night, I like most [...]

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Choosing to Walk Away from Church Hurt

June 4, 2008

The picture of that frog, strolling away from some froggy drama, comes from a kindergarten conflict resolution chart. The idea of "All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten" makes sense to me.  I cannot remember when I was first taught to simply "walk away" from conflicts and drama, but it was probably [...]

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One of these kids could be the next President…

June 3, 2008

For hundreds of years in this country, it was either illegal or impossible for the brown boy on the top row to be our President…it’s a brave new world!

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How Do You Read This Blog?

June 3, 2008

I am very curious to know how you read this blog. Do you simply remember the web address and come here every now and then?  Do you subscribe through email?  Do you subscribe through bloglines, google, or another blog reading service?  Have you bookmarked this page on your browser?  Do you get here through my [...]

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