I’ve been listening to a teaching series by Joe Mcgee lately. I learned something really interesting while listening to this series. He was talking about life and migrated over to talking about sin. In Greek terminology, sin was an old archery word. Every archer tried to hit the center of the bulls-eye on the target; [...]
Archive for the 'Thoughts' Category
Greek Terminology and the Bible
16Feb07by Brandon Gross
Shoes
25Dec06by Brandon Gross
I wrote a blog entry a while back about finding God hidden stories this Christmas, you can read it here. I have been saving this story for a few weeks now. I wanted to give it to you all on Christmas. This is not my story but another persons story that I have claimed as [...]
Who Has Your Name?
23Dec06by Brandon Gross
Here is a cool website I heard about from Trasition Pete’s Blog . www.howmanyofme.com has made a little program that will show you how many people have your name in the U.S.A. I have listed my results below. There are a lot more "Gross" people than I expected… hmmm. Click on the "How many have [...]
How Culturally Savvy are You???
05Dec06by Brandon Gross
I ran across another great article from www.churchrelevance.com, which is another one of my favorite blogs. The post I am referring to listed stats that compared the cultural knowledge of pastors vs. churchgoers. It was interesting and can be found here. I am a firm believer that the church needs to know the state of [...]
Cool Youth Ministry
01Dec06by Brandon Gross
I just ran across an interesting article over at www.churchrelevance.com about some recent stats that came out pointing to the decline of the "MTV cool Youth Ministry" genre. You can read the article yourself by going here. I have served in youth ministry nearing 8 years now. During this time I have seen all kinds [...]
Playstation 3 Blues
17Nov06by Brandon Gross
So I thought I was going to get a PS3… boy was I mistaken! I had the whole game plan layed out, nothing could go wrong… until I found out that I was not as much of a ubergeek as I thought. I was going to head out of work early yesterday morning and go [...]
The Good Old Days
12Oct06by Bart Hardison
I don’t know about you but I am sensitive to the old phrase, "Just like the good old days." I use it and I know you do too. I am always thinking about some time in the past that I think was better than today.
I know you understand…
Back in grade school on the playground. [...]
What Should Church Software Look Like?
09Oct06by Brandon Gross
We have been doing a lot of thinking around the office about what church software should look like. Now I don’t mean just graphics and pretty buttons, I’m talking about vision… what should the vision of church software look like. It’s incredible how vision can change everything… completely. We are in a process of reimagining [...]
Keeping Our Promises
20Sep06by Bart Hardison
Following my post from yesturday is a comment from Seth Godin’s blog about Success.
How’s this: success is largely about keeping your promises.
Seth’s Blog: Successful?
We all want to be successful, first, biggest, MEGA. So often we are willing to do anything it takes including sacrifice our integrity.
Whether you are the CEO of a company, the [...]
Our Spiritual act of Worship
19Sep06by Bart Hardison
I am often asked what I do for a living. Well I could say I write software or I am the Director of TCS Software. What always follows is, "What kind of software do you write?" The answer: We write data base software for Churches. It usually gets a nod or two. Not that most [...]
