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My Favorites from 2011

January 3, 2012 in Links, Personal with 3 Comments

Every year I post a top 10 list, based on traffic that came to the website over a 12 month period.  You can go read that top 10 list if you’d like, but today I wanted to share a top list of my own personal favorites.

My favorites from this year, and in no particular order:

Small Group Leading Tips // The best post content-wise my website has ever seen, and it came courtesy of the 3rd grade boys small group leader at our church.  I also sleep with her and have fathered her three children.  She is my wife.

I Hate Sam Luce // When detailing all the reasons I really hate Sam, I also added a dumb little image of him with horns.  The best part of the posts, was the lady that came up to me at the Kidmin Conference in Chicago and said, “I just can’t see Sam without seeing those horns you added to his picture!”  Greatest thing ever.

Wanna know what my family did this year?  Check out any of these post.

Doing Hard Things and you can see a sermon I gave this year on the topic as well.

On Being a Foster Parent (another guest post from Starr)

Certainty is Overrated

I personally loved writing about Navigating Staff Relationships.  It’s been a big part of my church-life this year, and something I’m still learning to be better at.  Here are the post related  to this series:

What do you Want?

Time to Move

Practice Accountability

Assume the Best

And finally, one of the most exciting things I did this year on the blog was the video interview with David Platt.  I was totally blown away by his presentation at the D6 Conference in September, and was privileged to talk with him some more afterwards about parenting, life, and ministering to our families.

My interview with Pastor David Platt from the Church at Brook Hills in Birmingham, AL and the author of “Radical: Taking back our faith from the American Dream.”

 

Would it be too presumption to ask?  What was a post you loved this year?  Not just on this blog, but anywhere.

The Homeless Blogger

October 11, 2011 in Links with 0 Comments

Hello friends. My name is Kenny Conley and I’m the homeless blogger. What does that mean? Well, I have a blog over at childrensministryonline.com (BUT DON’T GO THERE). My blog is very sick with a nasty virus. Since she’s sick and slowly getting better, I don’t have a place to post new articles. I’m at the Kidmin Conference in Chicago and like always, I’ve got something to say… I just don’t have anyplace to say it. So, thanks to some good friends, they’re giving this homeless blogger a couch to sleep on and letting me finish off the carton of ice cream in the freezer. 

The Homeless Blogger: Making Connections

The other day I wrote about having a roommate at conferences because it is such a great opportunity to continue to network and connect. I have to admit though, the Kidmin conference was all about connecting and networking.j

First of all, Jim Wideman hit on this specifically. He shared how connecting with others is an integral part of his ministry. I think what some people might not get is that you can connect with others whether you lead a ministry of thousands or if you are a volunteer at a small church, I’ve actually been amazed by how many significant voices in the kidmin twitter feed and blogosphere are volunteers. Everyone has something to contribute… Don’t be silent.

Secondly, the kidmin conference was pretty intentional about helping people connect. Ey created spaces where people could connect in a way that was relevant. They had connect groups for those new to ministry, those feeling burnt out in ministry, those in mega churches, those leading multi-site ministry and many more. So, everyone had an option and many connected through this opportunity. Big win!

Lastly, Group has a specific philosophy. Every one of their products is R.E.A.L.

  • Relational
  • Experiential
  • Applicable
  • Learner-based

This was true of kidmin as well. This means that the breakouts included relational components. There was a lot of time for people to connect about topics important to them within the context of a breakout. Another Win!

When it comes to networking and connecting, kidmin championed that cause. Now it’s time to carry it out. I hope that I get to continue some conversations that started this weekend.

Thanks Jonathan for hosting my post. I think I might have dropped your toothbrush in your toilet while I was looking through for dental floss. Don’t worry though, I rinsed it off under hot water for a few minutes. Look for my next post by following my tweets at twitter.com/kennyconley

See past homeless blogger posts at the following sites:

Small Town Kidmin

Jenny Funderburke

Sam Luce

Introducing the D6 Live Page

September 22, 2011 in Ministry with 0 Comments

I’ve moved all the live blogging over to www.jonathancliff.com/d6live to avoid the multiple blog updates.

Get over there now and check it out!

Second Chance Grace

May 6, 2011 in Ministry, Personal with 0 Comments

All week I’ve shared the method behind how I prepare myself and my words for speaking to a crowd.  If you haven’t yet read up, then take the time to catch up now.  We had some great discussion.

The Opportunity to Speak

Preparing Myself to Speak

Remembering the Important Things when Speaking

How I Need to Get Better…and Quick!

At this point, I’d like to introduce you to a page that has been up for a few months now that you might have not noticed.  Up there at the top, and right here with a link you can go to a “Resources” page where you can take a listen to all that I have recently recorded in regards to myself speaking and writing.  I promise to not self-promote with regular blog posts, but instead to just throw what I have up there on the Resources Page.  Enjoy!

However, for this one-time moment and in the spirit of all we’ve discussed this week about Public Speaking let me throw out something I shared recently at my home church.  My pastor gave me a great opportunity recently, and I present it below for all your viewing pleasure.  Much of the material is from the reading I’ve done recently from “The Grace of God” by Andy Stanley, and I attempted to give credit where credit is due.

ParentLife Magazine Winner

March 4, 2011 in Ministry with 2 Comments

I wrote about the greatness of the new ParentLife Magazine, or more appropriately…the new redesign of ParentLife on Monday. If you haven’t read my thoughts, then be sure to head over to that post right now and read why you should consider an inaffordable subscription to a great parenting resource.

In that post, I also promised a one year subscription to one lucky commenter on the blog post.  I said that you could comment once a day for five days, and then I would randomly pick one of the comments for the prize.  And our winner is:

Kelly entered twice, and therefore doubled her chance of winning!  I personally know our winner this time around, and I can guarantee you that the prize could not go to a more wonderful family.  Enjoy the prize Kelly, and remember that if you’d like to see ParentLife for yourself then please go visit them today at www.lifeway.com/parentlife.

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