by ray | Jan 3, 2011 | Quotes
“Our greatest fear should not be of failure but of succeeding at things in life that don’t really matter.” — Francis Chan
by ray | Jan 3, 2011 | Other Ministries
“The pastors of high-growth churches spent most of their time in prayer, study, and teaching.” Recently, Lifeway Research asked 200 pastors to provide an hour-by-hour calendar of what they do each week. The study included 101 pastors whose churches were in...
by ray | Jan 3, 2011 | Other Ministries
As you may have already heard in the sermon from March 27–28, the elders graciously approved on March 22 a leave of absence that will take me away from Bethlehem from May 1 through December 31, 2010. We thought it might be helpful to put an explanation in a letter to...
by ray | Jan 3, 2011 | Other Ministries
I wrote this report for Bethlehem and have adapted it for this first day of 2011 on the DG Blog. It’s longer than a blog should be. My only excuse is that I did cut 263 pages. For eight months of this year (May–December), I was on a leave of absence. That meant I was...
by ray | Jan 2, 2011 | Current Events
The stats helper monkeys at WordPress.com mulled over how this blog did in 2010, and here’s a high level summary of its overall blog health: The Blog-Health-o-Meter™ reads Wow. Crunchy numbers A helper monkey made this abstract painting, inspired by your stats....
