Radicalis Experience

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On the Links

• People of the Second Chance blog
  Updated regularly by Mike Foster and Jud Wilhite, the blog focuses on the radical nature of biblical grace.
• Three NFL guidelines for hosting a church Superbowl party
  Your church can host a Superbowl party as long as it follows these three guidelines.
• Weslyan churches in Detroit give Christmas gift to community
  Eight churches in Detroit worked together to feed and clothe more than 1,000 families over Christmas.
• Seven Ways to Improve Email Outreach
  This is a summary of seven major takeaways from MarketingSherpa’s 2010 Email Marketing Summit last week that might be helpful when planning church emails. Topics include: integrating email and social media; focusing on reader retention; crafting valuable email messages; growing lists the right way.

Saddleback Sayings

• “The teacher is always silent when the test is given. When God is silent in your life, you are being tested.” –Rick Warren, from The Prayer of Surrender-Connecting with God: The Lord’s Prayer

• “All lasting change in your life - whatever habit you want to break, whatever hurt you want to get rid of, whatever hang-up you'd like to let go of - starts with choice. And it is one of the greatest gifts that God has given us is the will to choose.” – Rick Warren, from “How Jesus Changes You” simulcast

Bible Bytes

• “You got me when I was an unformed youth, God, and taught me everything I know. Now I'm telling the world your wonders; I'll keep at it until I'm old and gray. God, don't walk off and leave me until I get out the news Of your strong right arm to this world, news of your power to the world yet to come ….”
  
  - Psalms 71:17-18 (MSG)

Notes & Quotes

• “Men will wrangle for religion, write for it, fight for it, die for it; anything but live for it.” Charles Caleb Colton
• “Some athletes give their life to Jesus Christ as a PR move; some are ripe with hypocrisy; some just say offensive things. Warner always expressed his faith without trivializing it or us.” Seth Wickersham, of ESPN magazine, writing on Arizona Cardinals QB Kurt Warner, who retired today after 12 years in the National Football League
• "Look at those cows and remember that the greatest scientists in the world have never discovered how to make grass into milk." – Inventor Michael Pupin