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New Music from Switchfoot

Gregory Davis — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 17:53:02 +0000

Listen to Switchfoot’s lastest release “Hello Hurricane” for free (1 time) right here! Gotta love Lala! (email readers click here)

Hello Hurricane - Switchfoot

Catalyst 2009 Compassion Moment

Gregory Davis — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 12:22:40 +0000

The Catalyst Conference was very powerful with so many great and motivational speakers. There was an especially powerful and emotional moment when Jimmy (from Kenya) got to meet his Compassion International sponser.

I am very glad that our family has partnered with Compassion International for the past several years. If you ever doubted that it makes a difference, just watch this clip.

Catalyst 2009 Compassion Moment from Catalyst on Vimeo.

This has already been called one of THE most powerful moments in Catalyst history; there wasn’t a dry eye in the arena after Jimmy Wambua met Mark, his sponsor, for the 1st time. It was an unbelievable moment…

Will you sponsor a child through Compassion International?

Carrying To Much?

Gregory Davis — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 15:18:30 +0000

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It might be time to lighten your load and start doing less! Why do we often feel like we need to do "more" when what we should do is built a team around us and do what we can well? It is not easy letting go, but good leadership and requires that we do just that and trust those around us.

What is the burden you are carrying around today? What do you need to let go of? http://read.ly/Matt11.28.MSG

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Google Wave - 8 Min Overview

Gregory Davis — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 03:40:12 +0000

I just got my Google Wave invite today and I must say it does look promising. Of coarse it’s power comes from actually conversation with your friends, which is a bit tough while it is still in a private beta testing. Here is a good 8 minute overview of what Google Wave will do.

Think about it this way…. what would “email” look like if it were invented today - admist all of the social networking and collaboration that is possible?

P.S. I have a small handful of invites to send out. Who would like one?

Google Wave for Dummies

Gregory Davis — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 01:28:55 +0000

Okay, you may have heard a lot of noise this past week about something called Google Wave and not had a clue about what it is or why you should care. To be sure, you haven’t heard the last as it is just entering limited, by invitation-only beta testing, but it has the potential to totally revoluntionize the way we communicate in the near future.

Here is a simple brief overview of what it is to give you an idea. If you still want to know more, check out this complete guide from Mashable.

Yea, I’m still waiting for my invite too….

Backstage with Chuck Colson

Gregory Davis — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 03:28:27 +0000

Tonight we kicked off the Fall semester of Backstage Leadership with our first speaker, Chuck Colson. Chuck Colson is a popular and widely known author, speaker, and radio commentator. A former presidential aide to Richard Nixon and founder of the international ministry Prison Fellowship, he has written several books, including Born Again, Loving God, How Now Shall We Live?

It was truly an honor to be on a private call with handful of others and able to ask him questions directly about his life experiences and his thoughts on leadership. I know many of us felt like we needed time after the call to just soak in all his words of wisdom.

While Chuck Colson was born and grew up in an earlier generation, the things he has learned and insights he has aquired are timeless. He was able to share with us about his passion for the Christain world view, why it matters and why it is important to the church to be able to teach it. As he pointed out during his overview, our society has lost much of its “moral anchor” and that is rooted in a world view (perspective on life).

In case you are wondering what a world view is or how to talk about it, simply ask yourself (or the person you’d like to discuss it with) these 4 questions:

Where do we come from?
Why is there suffering?
Is there a way out?
What is my purpose?

The answers to these questions are rooted in one’s ‘world view’. There are 4 basic world views:

Christianity
Secular / Naturalism
Islam
Eastern Relgions

Christianity is very unique in its anwers to the questions above when compared to the other word views and it DOES matter. When you try to take away this uniqueness / difference you begin down the path of “reductionism”.

I very much appreciated Mr. Colson’s openness and honesty about his own life, what he has learned and where he still struggles. I am looking foward to lunch at Catalyst with Michael Hyatt, CEO of Thomas Nelson Publishers, on October 9. I can tell these next several months are going stretch and challenge me - can’t wait!

Backstage Leadership

Gregory Davis — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 01:57:03 +0000

I am excited to be getting started in the Backstage Leadership program. It is a unique chance to have behind the scenes access to individuals who are making a difference in leadership and impacting the organizations they have been a part of. This week we will hear from and have an opportunity to ask questions of Chuck Colson. In the coming months we will also hear from the likes of Brad Lomenick, Mark Batterson, Carlos Whittaker, Gabe Lyons, and more.

If you are going to be at Catalyst at the beginning of Oct and would like to learn more about the program and hear from Michael Hyatt, CEO of Thomas Nelson Publishers, during lunch on Friday, Oct 9, simply get registered here.

YouVersion Live - Webinar

Gregory Davis — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 14:39:32 +0000

If you missed the live webinar that Terry Storch & Bobby Gruenewald gave last week, you can now catch it here. You can be sure this (YouVersion Live) is going to rock the the way many experience and interact with church services in the future! I am excited because this effort recognizes the power that mobile devices play in today’s culture and allows people to interact and communicate with the church in ways they are already doing with other organizations and each other. Real-time two-way connectedness - it is about relationships, not religion!

Looking forward to seeing it demonstrated live at Catalyst ‘09 in just less that 2 weeks and then to start to experiment with it at Fellowship in the weeks and months ahead. Stay tuned!

YouVersion Live!

Gregory Davis — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 19:45:00 +0000

The latest endeavor coming out from the LifeChurch.tv Digerati brain trust is an enhancement to YouVersion.com for live events. It is scheduled to debut on Oct 8 during the Catalyst conference and then will be immediately available to churches following that. We got a sneak peek at some screen shots during a webinar today.

Things to look forward to include the ability to design your event and then share element such as scripture, polls, links, prayer requests, notes and more with you live audience via their mobile devices. This looks to really revolutionize the way churches interact with their attendees. Can’t wait to see it in action!

Catch the initial set of presentation slides here:

YouVersion Live

Mashable Twitter Guidebook

Gregory Davis — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 13:18:11 +0000

Mashable has recently released its Twitter Guide Book, a fairly comprehensive overview of how to get going with Twitter.

If you have never tried Twitter but are curious about it or fairly new to the concept of micro-blogging and status updates, you’ll want to check it out. In the article you find links to a slideshare document which is bascially an index of several Adobe PDF files. I have linked to them directly here as well as I think it makes it easier to find and use.

To understand the purpose of the guidebook, here is the introduction from the CEO of Mashable:

Twitter is a social network used by millions of people, and thousands more are signing up every day to send short messages to groups of friends.

But where’s the user manual for Twitter? Where do new Twitter users go to learn about Tweeting, retweets, hashtags and customizing your Twitter profile? Where do you go if you want to know all about building a community on Twitter, or using Twitter for business? How can you find advanced tools for using Twitter on your phone or your desktop?

To answer all these questions and more, we’ve assembled The Twitter Guide Book, a complete collection of resources for mastering Twitter.

Happy Tweeting!

Pete Cashmore
@Mashable

So go ahead check out the links below & start tweeting!