My name is Ben Parker and I am a freelance artist working in new media. I create logos, digital designs and layout, websites, and videos. This is the place where I write my random thoughts in a very inconsistent manner.

Leadership Summit Session 5

August 8th, 2008

Craig Groeschel – IT: How leaders can get It and keep IT. Lead Pastor – Lifechurch.tv Have you ever been somewhere and said – this place just has it.  Buzz . . . . When we started we didn’t have a lot – overhead projector, most people think you need more – we just had IT. We had the [...]

Leadership Summit

August 8th, 2008

Hey guys – just posted 4 items – my notes on the sessions from today.  These are just the notes I took during the sessions.  I will hopefully post my insights here later – but it has been a long crazy day – so I am izzout.  More from tomorrows – there are lots of [...]

Leadership Summit Session 4

August 8th, 2008

John Burke – Leading in New Cultural Realities Lead Pastor – Gateway Church No Perfect People Allowed Soul Revolution 1 Corinthians 3:6-9 Flower beds – a lot of work to help the soil – it’s messy and hard. Does the soil you’re creating allow room for struggles and mess? We have to be willing to get our hands dirty Matthew 9:11 – 13 We [...]

Leadership Summit Session 3

August 8th, 2008

Bill George – Finding Your True North Professor, Harvard Business School – Former CEO Medtronic Has the book – True North Are you using all your gifts to be the leader God called you to be? Challenge: Think about your own leadership and ask yourself – “Am I doing everything I can to make the world a better place?” Nelson [...]

Leadership Summit Session 2

August 8th, 2008

Gary Haughen – Just Courage: Charging the Darkness Founder – International Justice Mission Are Jesus and I really interested in the same thing? For 2000 years christians have been trying to make it believable that god is good. Injustice in the Bible is a particular kind of sin.  It’s an abuse of power where they have things God has [...]

Leadership Summit Session 1

August 8th, 2008

Where I am watching has bad video quality – and although the audio isn’t skipping – the video is dropping frames – and retiming/remapping.  So yeah – here is session 1 Bill Hybels – The High Drama of Decision Making Senior Pastor – Willow Creek Community Church We believe leaderships highest uses is to advance the purposes of [...]

Having some fun with the kiddos . . .

August 6th, 2008

Willow Creek Leadership Summit 08′

August 6th, 2008

So I will be attending the Willow Creek Leadership Summit once again this year.  I do like this conference for as much as it bugs me sometimes.  The truth is there will be some speakers I love, some I will edit during – but I digress.  I will once again be bringing you notes and [...]

Learnings From an Odd Source

August 6th, 2008

So today for our pastors meeting we did something a little different. We have been doing it different the past couple of meetings. trying to make them more helpful to us as a team and as individuals. To be helpful from a spiritual standpoint and from a leadership perspective. Jon Keatts led [...]

Nevada is a leading state in foreclosures, NBC thinks prostitution is more important

June 17th, 2008

I honestly can’t believe this! Here in Nevada we have felt the effects of the housing crunch as much as any state. Working at our church here I come across a lot of families who have been hit hard. This past week I sat down with a family who was slammed by [...]