photo credit: The Next Web via photopin cc If in 1963, I told you that in the next thirty to fifty years computers would not only be so small that everyone would have one, but that we’d rewire the world with data cables that made it possible to connect millions…
photo credit: Cast a Line via photopin cc A lot of times, people think that large churches are a modern invention. The truth is that large churches were the norm, especially in larger cities, until after the beginning of the reformation. Sure, a small village might have small church, but…
photo credit: Mars Hill Church via photopin cc Multisite isn’t a new movement. A lot of people think it’s an outgrowth of the megachurch movement of the 1980s, but it’s much older. When the Church first started, missionaries from Jerusalem went out to the rest of the Roman world. They’d…
photo credit: NASA Goddard Photo and Video via photopin cc In 2063, our children will live in a world that is different from the one we live in. There will be around nine billion people. That’s two billion more than there are today. Dire predictions about living in a world…
photo credit: DonkeyHotey via photopin cc Assuming that nothing radically changes, 2063 is the year before a presidential election. That’s a big assumption because at any moment, a groundswell of support for a constitutional amendment to change the length of the presidential term or the year of the election. There’s…
photo credit: JoshuaDavisPhotography via photopin cc Right now, I’m sitting with a laptop on my lap that’s so powerful that it’s actually exporting video, receiving email, and enabling me to connect remotely to a server, I know not where, on which I’m writing this chapter. In 1963, this would have…
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