Good Morning and Happy New Year.

Wow! Another year gone. We'd like to thank all of you for your support in 2008. We appreciate the feedback (we're human...we especially appreciate the positive feedback) you've given us during the last twelve months on how to help you do your ministry better. We love being able to help members of the Creator Leadership Network by providing timely and helpful information, and we look forward to continuing to do so in 2009. Stay tuned...we have some wonderful things coming, including new ways that & ...

Good Morning and Merry Christmas.

It is almost Christmas. Are you ready? From all of us here at Creator and Monday Morning Email to all of you who bring your gifts to the service of the new-born King, we wish you to best of all Christmases, and the most wonderful New Year of ministry.

Just a couple of bits of information before we let you get back to those last minute preparations and time with your family:

● Last week we held our second

Don't miss Randy Vader's Christmas Meditation for 2008, now on the Thinking on These Things page. Click here to see it.

Good Morning.

I am reminded by my staff that I keep forgetting to celebrate things--like the fact that over the past couple of weeks we have again surpassed a milestone in Creator Leadership Network membership. We are now over 2400 strong, and counting. Won't you please tell your friends about CLN and Monday Morning Email? I think it would be great to get to 2500 before the end of the year.

Two things...read to the en ...

Good Morning.

Thanks for all your responses to my book excerpt. I am pleased to know that so many of you are interested in purchasing the book. I've responded to all of your personally, but if you are reading this and did not send me an email over the past week or two, and are interesting in buying the book, just let me know by

Good Morning.

First, an apology...The response to my book excerpt generated so much email traffic last Monday, that my e-mailbox couldn't handle it. Part of the problem was that I was also being bombarded with spam, which happens periodically. If I responded to you personally, I got your email fee ...

And the winners are:

Marty Cole of Washington

Mike McClurg of Ohio

Lyndsay Naranjo of Florida

Margaret Quezada of Kansas

Duane Toole of Virginia

Congratulations to all of you. Your DVD of Noelle will be on its way to you in the next couple of days.< ...

Good Morning.

Happy Thanksgiving week. I have always found this to be an odd two Sundays to plan, from a worship standpoint. Do you celebrate Thanksgiving on the Sunday before, or the Sunday after the actual day? Neither, for me, is entirely satisfactory. And, when you consider that most of the time the church at which I serve has been in or at the end of a stewardship campaign, it gets complicated. I think our Canadian friends have it much easier, since their Thanksgiving comes on a Monday (for our American readers, just look at the Monday closest to Columb ...

We have our winners. Thanks, everyone, for your participation. Look for our next Fantastic Friday coming in December. We'll announce who won tomorrow in this space...

Ok...here we go...here's the info we promised on Monday.

To recap, we have 5 copies of the new Dove-Family-Approved movie Noëlle that, through the generosity of Gener8xion Entertainment, Inc., we are giving away on Friday, November 21. Since contest rules are always somewhat arbitrary, I apologize in advance if the following offends anybody. We have already had a positive ...