And without further adieu, the most popular post for the month of September was….
“What Is the Best Way To Find Sermon Illustrations?”
We didn’t get that many comments on that one. I was a little disappointed, to be honest. 
One of the readers wanted your help people! Ok…i’ll step off my soapbox. But it’s not too late if you have any ideas or want to share your story of how you find illustrations. If you still want to jump in and share click here.
Just a quick update. I just added the Comment Luv plugin to Modern Ekklesia. With this plugin, whenever someone that has a blog leaves a comment, it will automatically show their last blog post beneath their comment. This is just a simple way of helping to spread the love in this community and to help get some other voices heard and on the map.
So spread the luv 
In the past I’ve never had a super purposeful system for scheduling out blog posts. I generally wanted to post about twice a week. Usually on Tuesdays or Thursdays. But I was never really purposeful about what I was going to write about. If I was on my computer and got an idea for a blog post, I’d write it down in a list I created in Google Tasks. If I was away from my computer I’d simply write it down in my notebook. The problem with this method is that it was easy for me to not look at the list for days. Even when I did look at the list it was easy to just look at it, but not take any action.
Well, Chris Brogan recently wrote a post on a plugin for WordPress called “editorial calendar” which he liked and I decided to check out. It’s a super simple plugin. It basically shows you a calendar view for any posts you have coming up. It’s really easy to switch dates for any post by dragging it to another date.
When you absolutely positively have to get a lot of important work done, where do you go? Is there a certain place in your house? A home office? Your main office at work somewhere? Or is there another place you go to?
For me, it’s become pretty simple. I have two little kids, and if I’m at home, I won’t be able to achieve a deep level of concentration. It’s just too easy to take a break, or have to get up to deal with a screaming child. Because of that, my go to place has become Borders bookstore.
It’s relatively quiet, and I’m able to focus. In fact, because i’m not at home, it motivates me to focus and get a lot of work done before I head back home for the day.
On Tuesday, September 28, Guy Kawasaki and Charlene Li will be presenting a free webinar on principles of open leadership.
They’ll be answering some of the following questions:
1. What exactly does it mean to be “enchanting” and how does being open help?
2. What are the behaviors of today’s most successful Open Leaders?
3. And what are the new rules for leaders? Followers? Organizations?
It will be at 10am pacific standard time, or 1pm, EST. To learn more and register for this free webinar click here.
Have you ever had to do a virtual meeting by phone or video conference? Did you know that there’s certain protocol that determines how you should act in those environments?
The New York Times recently posted a great article on how to remain professional in these kinds of meetings.
It included some of these points:
To read more from the article click here.
[image by mofetos]
I was recently in Starbucks (it was decaf people) and couldn’t help be struck by the following landing page when you log onto the wifi there. Check it out:
I noticed a couple of things:
1. They were expecting me
2. They were inviting me to stay and be comfortable
3. They were inviting me to return
I suppose if churches were as intentional in doing even little things as Starbucks is on their landing page, perhaps many would have a different perception of churches.
Maybe. Maybe not. Thoughts?
