Nickcarnes.com Car Magnets

This is what my car magnets are going to look like!
What do you think of the final product?

This will be 17.3″ x 11.25″ – About the size of a Ledger Piece of Paper.

My wife had a coupon where I can get the large car magnets for only $7.99 or a small one for free through Vista Print. I’m going with the large ones, so people can see my advertisement easier! I will never live down being a self promoter now 😆

Before you ask…Sure you can order some and advertise my blog. Thank you!

Do

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I’ve been thinking about this commercial for a while now. I have had the privilege of attending some of the greatest conferences in this Country for church leaders, yet it seems that year after year we discuss some of the same issues with ministries in the church and in the Christian culture as if nothing is changing. Research data shows that nothing much has improved. This is in no way to take away from what a lot of churches are doing, trust me, there are a lot of churches who are rocking it for God! However, we as an “unified” body are doing nothing, and it bothers me.

This post or video is not to take away from what I am learning at the Orange Conference. Some of the key words reminded me of this commercial today. “ReThink” “Programs” “Processes” “Innovate” “New Ideas” – All great terms, but meaningless unless there is substance to back them up. There was one breakout that confused me today, but that is not to take away from the conference as a whole, everything will not be 100%, but it seemed that people were sharing a lot of their Ideation, but no solid “hows” to move the Church and Christian culture in a direction to answer these issues that we are focusing on. I think there has to be a time and place to quit discussing and thinking and start doing.

I think it is time that we as the “Church” stop Ideating and start DOING! I am passionate about this, but feel I do not know what I can do to influence people to ‘do,’ except post this on my blog. Will you start doing with me? Maybe if a few of us join together we will see some changes. I heard Rick Warren say this past week that he wants to be a part of starting the 2nd Reformation of the church. The first Reformation was about Creeds (we know what we believe now) so the 2nd Reformation will be about “deeds.” – If your ministry, or if you are doing something personally to “Do” versus “Ideate” please share with me what you are doing…If you are Ideating and not doing, please share with me what you are praying God will use you to do – Then we can do it together…

Heaven Scary?

While I am on the road with my dad to pick up a baby grand piano in Ohio for my mom, I am not able to blog much. I have a couple of great items I am waiting to get on here, but until then, here is a little something I saw along the way:

“The Choice is Yours. Heaven or Hell. Scary Isn’t it?”

Since when is Heaven scary?

For some reason I always see signs like these in the mountains…that’s where this one was, on the top of a small mountain.

Coming Soon to a Blog Near You

Its been a crazy and busy last few days. Things are slowing down and I will be getting back to some regular blogging by this afternoon.

  • I will be posting my closing thoughts on Chapter 2 of Chasing Daylight.
  • Starting my thoughts on Chapter 3
  • Within the next few days I should be posting my article for simply youth ministry “Infusing Passion” I want it to release on their newsletter and website first, so I do not take away from what they are trying to do. I am excited about the article and hope that it will make for some great dialog. I had to keep it short for them and I really wanted to add to it, so I may do that on here.
  • All of this coming soon…