tag:typepad.com,2003:weblog-358684 2008-11-05T09:20:48-08:00 Less time on tasks... more time with people. TypePad tag:typepad.com,2003:post-58074160 2008-11-05T09:20:48-08:00 2008-11-05T09:21:38-08:00 bobhyatt Hey all- I'm needing some recharge and refocus here on PastorHacks. I'm going to take the month of November, go on hiatus, do some reading, thinking and writing about this pastoral life we have and how we can spend less time on tasks and more time with people- then I'll be back in December. If you are a regular visitor, go ahead and throw us onto your RSS- I will... <p><a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/Pastorhacksdotnet?a=PBCDnN"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/Pastorhacksdotnet?i=PBCDnN" border="0"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Pastorhacksdotnet/~4/443446303" height="1" width="1"/>http://bobhyatt.typepad.com/pastorhacks/2008/11/hiatus.html tag:typepad.com,2003:post-57826353 2008-10-31T08:25:24-07:00 2008-10-31T08:52:49-07:00 bobhyatt From LifeChurch.tv- a FREE service for your church community... I'm test-driving it now- I'll let you know what I think soon. In the meantime, check it out yourself...ChurchMetrics.comFeaturesEnter a handful of numbers each week and ChurchMetrics.com shows you an easy-to-understand picture of what’s going on at your church. Keep an eye on patterns, make adjustments along the way, and stay on track with your mission as you lead your church.DashboardThe... <p><a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/Pastorhacksdotnet?a=MbhPik"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/Pastorhacksdotnet?i=MbhPik" border="0"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Pastorhacksdotnet/~4/438137138" height="1" width="1"/>http://bobhyatt.typepad.com/pastorhacks/2008/10/churchmetricscom-is-open-for-business-and-free.html tag:typepad.com,2003:post-57822443 2008-10-31T07:02:26-07:00 2008-10-31T07:02:27-07:00 bobhyatt I can't tell you how much I am using, and loving, DropBox right now... I have all my sermons on it- no more losing sermons to hard drive failure- ever. And the new, very slick iPhone interface means I have access to all my documents, all the time. Pretty freakin' incredible. I use it to drop graphics files to those preparing MedisShout.We've discovered that it works great for preparing a... <p><a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/Pastorhacksdotnet?a=CFFkFQ"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/Pastorhacksdotnet?i=CFFkFQ" border="0"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Pastorhacksdotnet/~4/438065018" height="1" width="1"/>http://bobhyatt.typepad.com/pastorhacks/2008/10/i-heart-dropbox.html tag:typepad.com,2003:post-57609225 2008-10-31T03:20:00-07:00 2008-10-27T08:05:24-07:00 bobhyatt "The happy result of a theological understanding of people as sinners is that the pastor is saved from continual surprise that they are in fact sinners. It enables us to heed Bonhoeffer's admonition: 'A pastor should not complain about his congregation, certainly never to other people, but also not to God. A congregation has not been entrusted to him in order that he should become its accuser before God and... <p><a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/Pastorhacksdotnet?a=tjNE8j"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/Pastorhacksdotnet?i=tjNE8j" border="0"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Pastorhacksdotnet/~4/438065019" height="1" width="1"/>http://bobhyatt.typepad.com/pastorhacks/2008/10/pastoral-complaints.html tag:typepad.com,2003:post-57780475 2008-10-30T09:15:21-07:00 2008-10-30T09:15:23-07:00 bobhyatt More Than Dodgeball has this post on What to do with a frustrated volunteer... Good stuff."Volunteers are as different as two sides of a coin. Some are great…actually if we’re honest; some are more qualified to be the point person than we are! There are also volunteers whom we dream of graduating along with their senior; we wake up with tears in our eyes because it’ll be the greatest “dream... <p><a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/Pastorhacksdotnet?a=Q0MAS7"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/Pastorhacksdotnet?i=Q0MAS7" border="0"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Pastorhacksdotnet/~4/437066265" height="1" width="1"/>http://bobhyatt.typepad.com/pastorhacks/2008/10/what-to-do-with-a-frustrated-volunteer.html tag:typepad.com,2003:post-57604645 2008-10-27T06:17:08-07:00 2008-10-28T11:36:34-07:00 bobhyatt "The word sinner is a theological designation. It is essential to insist on this. It is not a moralistic judgement. It is not a word that places humans somewhere along a continuum ranging from angel to ape, assessing them as relatively 'good' or 'bad.' It designates humans in relation to God and sees them as separated from God. Sinner means something is awry between humans and God. In that state... <p><a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/Pastorhacksdotnet?a=gBYTQe"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/Pastorhacksdotnet?i=gBYTQe" border="0"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Pastorhacksdotnet/~4/433556969" height="1" width="1"/>http://bobhyatt.typepad.com/pastorhacks/2008/10/seeing-people-as-sinners.html tag:typepad.com,2003:post-57393531 2008-10-23T02:42:00-07:00 2008-10-24T10:56:43-07:00 bobhyatt Windows/Mac/Linux (all platforms with Java): GTD Free, a Java-based desktop app, is one of the most straight-forward implementations of the Getting Things Done organizational system you'll see, but it also serves as a great introduction for the GTD-curious.Read the rest here @ LifehackerOr download GTDFree here <p><a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/Pastorhacksdotnet?a=27c5Ub"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/Pastorhacksdotnet?i=27c5Ub" border="0"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Pastorhacksdotnet/~4/430102217" height="1" width="1"/>http://bobhyatt.typepad.com/pastorhacks/2008/10/gtd-free.html tag:typepad.com,2003:post-57348229 2008-10-22T03:08:00-07:00 2008-10-21T09:13:35-07:00 bobhyatt "'The grass withers, the flower fades, when the breath of the LORD blows upon it... but the word of our God will stand forever.' (Is 40:7-8)Such an extravagant, exuberant boast, made by the nascent church in the face of widespread persecution, is great comfort to those of us who work weekly with the Word. How dare the church utter some of its most sweeping claims for the power of the... <p><a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/Pastorhacksdotnet?a=PHnFiE"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/Pastorhacksdotnet?i=PHnFiE" border="0"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Pastorhacksdotnet/~4/428750519" height="1" width="1"/>http://bobhyatt.typepad.com/pastorhacks/2008/10/the-word.html tag:typepad.com,2003:post-57355787 2008-10-22T02:40:00-07:00 2008-10-22T10:01:24-07:00 bobhyatt From NPR (ht: Chris)Don't believe the multitasking hype, scientists say. New research shows that we humans aren't as good as we think we are at doing several things at once. But it also highlights a human skill that gave us an evolutionary edge.As technology allows people to do more tasks at the same time, the myth that we can multitask has never been stronger. But researchers say it's still a... <p><a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/Pastorhacksdotnet?a=cA7PBM"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/Pastorhacksdotnet?i=cA7PBM" border="0"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Pastorhacksdotnet/~4/428399633" height="1" width="1"/>http://bobhyatt.typepad.com/pastorhacks/2008/10/think-youre-multitasking-think-again.html tag:typepad.com,2003:post-57343463 2008-10-21T07:47:32-07:00 2008-10-21T07:47:33-07:00 bobhyatt Dustin, one of our elders at Evergreen wrote this awhile back... for your consideration:Plagiarism – “to steal and pass off (the ideas or words of another) as one's own: use (another's production) without crediting the source.”“One day I was walking alongside the seashore and I noticed that thousands of starfish had washed up upon the shore….”If you have been in the church for any amount of time you probably know... <p><a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/Pastorhacksdotnet?a=cv9N79"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/Pastorhacksdotnet?i=cv9N79" border="0"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Pastorhacksdotnet/~4/427534588" height="1" width="1"/>http://bobhyatt.typepad.com/pastorhacks/2008/10/plagiarism--the-prostitution-of-preaching.html tag:typepad.com,2003:post-57342425 2008-10-21T07:24:46-07:00 2008-10-21T07:26:03-07:00 bobhyatt Ha!(ht: MMI) <p><a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/Pastorhacksdotnet?a=oYR3Yc"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/Pastorhacksdotnet?i=oYR3Yc" border="0"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Pastorhacksdotnet/~4/427516042" height="1" width="1"/>http://bobhyatt.typepad.com/pastorhacks/2008/10/real-preachers-of-genius.html tag:typepad.com,2003:post-57131071 2008-10-17T07:14:35-07:00 2008-10-17T09:52:51-07:00 bobhyatt "If we learn anything from the Psalms, it's that God isn't afraid of our emotions, our struggles, and our questions. The one mistake we dare not make, Philip Yancey reminds us, is to confuse God (who is good) with life (which is hard). God feels the same way we do- and is taking the most radical steps possible (Christmas, Good Friday, Easter, and more to come) to redeem the present... <p><a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/Pastorhacksdotnet?a=CAPtBB"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/Pastorhacksdotnet?i=CAPtBB" border="0"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Pastorhacksdotnet/~4/423746424" height="1" width="1"/>http://bobhyatt.typepad.com/pastorhacks/2008/10/one-mistake-we-dare-not-make.html tag:typepad.com,2003:post-57078183 2008-10-17T03:00:00-07:00 2008-10-16T07:02:21-07:00 bobhyatt (HT: deviant) <p><a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/Pastorhacksdotnet?a=c6ybo5"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/Pastorhacksdotnet?i=c6ybo5" border="0"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Pastorhacksdotnet/~4/423577254" height="1" width="1"/>http://bobhyatt.typepad.com/pastorhacks/2008/10/evangelism-fail.html tag:typepad.com,2003:post-57078079 2008-10-16T07:00:00-07:00 2008-10-16T07:00:05-07:00 bobhyatt And to go along with the great deals from Ignitor below...From Collide online..."Stop using media if you’re just trying to impress people.This ties in with a couple of my previous posts, including Stop Using Media (Part One)and The Problem with an Industry of Cool, but I think this is a slightly different message. Stop using media if you’re just trying to impress people. Trying to impress people is an incredibly... <p><a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/Pastorhacksdotnet?a=w2v11S"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/Pastorhacksdotnet?i=w2v11S" border="0"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Pastorhacksdotnet/~4/422676612" height="1" width="1"/>http://bobhyatt.typepad.com/pastorhacks/2008/10/stop-using-media-if.html tag:typepad.com,2003:post-57077383 2008-10-16T06:47:08-07:00 2008-10-16T06:47:08-07:00 bobhyatt I love Ignitor- among the best video stuff out there for churches. They consistently blow me away with their quality...And since they are lowering prices... <p><a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/Pastorhacksdotnet?a=YtqA2M"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/Pastorhacksdotnet?i=YtqA2M" border="0"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Pastorhacksdotnet/~4/422669785" height="1" width="1"/>http://bobhyatt.typepad.com/pastorhacks/2008/10/free-and-cheaper-video-resources-from-ignitor.html tag:typepad.com,2003:post-56973641 2008-10-14T07:24:19-07:00 2008-10-14T11:59:12-07:00 bobhyatt DropBox is quickly becoming about the most useful tool we've encountered in our church plant- with multiple staff, two separate worship gatherings in two different locations and lots of files to move around and sync, DropBox is a dweam come twue. So far we've used DB to: Move large audiofiles for podcasts Distribute graphic files for MediaShout Make video files available Get our weekly announcement sheets updated and out to... <p><a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/Pastorhacksdotnet?a=B6z4rH"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/Pastorhacksdotnet?i=B6z4rH" border="0"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Pastorhacksdotnet/~4/420585842" height="1" width="1"/>http://bobhyatt.typepad.com/pastorhacks/2008/10/singing-the-praises-of-dropbox.html tag:typepad.com,2003:post-56913797 2008-10-13T06:51:25-07:00 2008-10-13T06:51:25-07:00 bobhyatt Good time management involves being both effective and efficient. You have to be able to pick out the right tasks and then do them in the most economical way. In the first part of this series I looked at effectiveness. As I discussed then, that is certainly the most important stage. However it also needs to be tied with efficient work practices to really save you time. It’s no good... <p><a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/Pastorhacksdotnet?a=WN7LE7"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/Pastorhacksdotnet?i=WN7LE7" border="0"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Pastorhacksdotnet/~4/419531879" height="1" width="1"/>http://bobhyatt.typepad.com/pastorhacks/2008/10/the-art-of-time-management-how-to-be-efficient.html tag:typepad.com,2003:post-56659335 2008-10-07T06:57:14-07:00 2008-10-07T07:05:17-07:00 bobhyatt You know I'm a big fan of the ubiquitous capture tool, right? (That's GTDSpeak for "having something to write with and on at all times.")Having something to capture ideas and reminders to self as they occur to you is a major key to peace of mind and being able to focus my attention on what I'm doing now as opposed to all the things I'm trying not to forget. Here... <p><a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/Pastorhacksdotnet?a=UGJylk"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/Pastorhacksdotnet?i=UGJylk" border="0"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Pastorhacksdotnet/~4/413827293" height="1" width="1"/>http://bobhyatt.typepad.com/pastorhacks/2008/10/optimizing-ubiquitous-capture.html