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SLAYING THE E-MAIL MONSTER!

First, watch this funny video of me doing what you may WISH you could do to your computer: Then, check out my 5th Kidology Leadership Lab: Define, Refine and Shine! (Link works for Kidology Members) The 5th installment of Kidology Online Training is now available. This Leadership Lab, titled Define, Refine, and Shine, is priced at only $9.99 for Kidology Members so that everyone can afford this valuable resource. We think it’s that important! Are you exhausted? Stress robbing you of the joy of ministry? Overloaded with more to do than time and resources allow? Then now is the time to evaluate your life and ministry. Yes, life and ministry. In this Leadership Lab, Karl Bastian will walk you through a thoughtful process that will bring definition, margin, and joy back into these areas. PLUS! This Lab includes a FREE BONUS REPORT: Slaying the E-Mail Monster. Learn 10 AMAZING SECRETS from a leader who personally manages hundreds of e-mails a day. What’s he’s learned the hard way will put YOU back in charge of your computer again! Purchase the accompanying Leadership Lab Download Kit for the complete training experience! Watch video online – Purchase Download Kit Share your thoughts in…

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A Starbucks for Kidology?

Oh faithful readers, you heard it here first on my blog! We often have people ask how they can help Kidology when they don’t think they can do much. Well, a lot of little helps make HUGE help and we need your help for some advancements we are eager to do on the site. So let me introduce you to a FUNd Raiser we are launching this week for this fall: Kidology’s “This One’s On Me” fundraiser is a way to support one of your favorite children’s ministry websites with small donations that otherwise may seem insignificant. To make it fun, you can choose to “buy” the equivalent of many every day products as your donation. The catch? You’ll get nothing in the mail, but will receive our heartfelt thanks and a tax-deductible receipt at the end of the year! If you’ve ever treated a friend to lunch or picked up the tab for a colleague’s Mocha Frappucino latte with whipped cream, then you know the joy a small gift can bring and the satisfaction from giving it. Here at Kidology we consider you a friend of our ministry and enjoy giving you the tools, resources, and ideas you need…

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Karl Goes To Train En Espanol

Attention: If you live in California and speak Spanish, then this post is for you! I’ll be going West November 1st to speak at NINOMANIA, a Spanish Conference at the Crystal Cathedral at the invitation of Noel Ascencio, one of our Kidology Spanish trainers. (See Spanish Tract at Kid U in October) (full size poster, 1.4mb) Espero a hasta la vista allí. Tendremos buen tiempo y aprenderemos mucho. Soy muy feliz ser un participante en este acontecimiento. ¡Hasta la vista allí! (I sure hope I said that right!) OR LISTEN TO THIS HERE

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Part 3 of DISCIPLESHIP Series

Scripture Memory is out of style these days. Perhaps it is because its hard and we are a culture that likes everything easy. Maybe we are just too busy to memorize. Some even try to discard it as rote repitition that is considered less effective than comprehension and perhaps even harmful. Many today contend that scripture memory is not effective because it doesn’t encourage thinking and therefore doesn’t impact the heart. I agree! I agree that if ALL we did was rote memory, we’d be bad off! But to dismiss scripture memory on the basis that if ALL we did was rote memory is to push a beneficial spiritual discipline to its extreme and then reject it as though the extreme is all it offers. Let me suggest three reasons I believe Scripture Memory is essential to discipleship: READ THE REST ON DISCIPLEBLOG.com

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An Impossible Task

Did you know it is impossible to eat six saltine crackers in under one minute? I know, I tried! My wife saw something on TV about it but first asked me to try it. 4.5 crackers later I discovered this deeply profound fact of life. How did I live so long not knowing this? I wonder what other impossible things I’ve never tried. Maybe I’ll try six pieces of licorice next! Then Nutter Butter Peanut Sandwhich Cookies or six cans of Mountain Dew! Seems like six little crackers should be possible, but alas, it is truly impossible! Go ahead, try it!

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