Well … she’s just released a new book called Brazen Careerist: The New Rules for Success.

Anyway, I was talking with her about doing a Q&A on the topic of work and career and the intersection of that with faith and spiritual values … and I thought I’d open up the brainstorming of ideas to the readers of this blog.

I think it’d be fun to poise some good questions to her about how a person of deep convictions — enter the evangelical Christian — can “successfully” live out your faith and values in the workplace.

Also … I’d love to hear some questions from pastors that they’d love to get the unique perspective of a “career coach” … both the questions and answers will be interesting to hear I’m sure.

Let’s be general about the questions. But also think about different scenarios a Christ-follower in particular might face. And the whole subject of “faith in the workplace.”

Send me an email with your ideas for questions … or fill out the contact form below.

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Yes, it was bound to happen sooner or later! I am taking some notes from Cory Miller and will be launching a “Rockin Church Plant” series in a couple of months. Since church planting is in my blood and I can totally relate to these radical visionaries who are in the trenches daily following God’s call, I naturally have to give out some props to my band of brothers! And you can help too…

There are many guys who are planting awesome churches and that are risking it all for the Kingdom. Many of these guys are doing it without ample support, are bi-vocational, or starting in a hostile environment. There are church plants who are making big waves in their community, getting national attention, or breaking the mold of what it means to be a church. Then there are planters and their teams who just deserve some high-fives because they are willing to go the distance and making great sacrifices to follow His call. This absolutely rocks! I wish I could list and give them all recognition but here’s how the deal will work.

I am going to name and interview the 25 church plants who should be considered the elite “Rockin Church Plants” of 2007 and give them some promotion. And while I have my own recommendations – I also want to know who you would nominate or give this title to as well!

I would like the nominees to meet at least one of the following criteria such as:

• being passionate about their church plant and willing to risk it all for this calling
• being missional and effective at reaching their community
• breaking the Status Quo and thinking outside of the box
• excellence in brand image and style
• truly relating to today’s culture or their focus group
• any church that you feel should have the title of a “Rockin Church Plant”

My only requirement is that the nominees must be a church that has been around less than four years because beyond this they have survived the crucial stages of planting and are not really considered a “church plant” anymore.

If you have a church plant or planter in mind, I want to hear from you. Please e-mail your nomination(s) to brandingshed@gmail.com by April 30th, 2007 and include:

• the church plant name
• the lead pastor’s name
• their website or blog address
• their phone number
• a quick sentence of why you are nominated them

Once the nomination process and additional research is completed, I will start posting the results and their information. I look forward to your input and who will be listed as the 25 “Rockin Church Plants” for 2007!

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Here are some details about the site:

• Site is managed using Blogger via their FTP publishing option.
• Template is a tweaked version of Blogger’s Minima template (one of my favorites).
• Total cost: Roughly $9 for domain name. (Our hosting plan includes unlimited hosting of unique domain names.)
• It’s still in beta … we’re still tweaking it.
• I’m hoping to optimize it for search engines.
• We’re using FeedBlitz as a free email newsletter. Our youth pastor posts to the blog, FeedBlitz sees it and sends it out.
• We’re using categories (like For Parents) to distinguish posts for different audiences.
• Flickr is making photo galleries a breeze!
• Tobin Jackson rocks! (Yes, he’s our rockin’ youth pastor!)

The situation: I needed to give Tobin a way to update his individual specific ministry website (we’ve got a general brochure-type youth section on the main church website). I told him about using Blogger as a free Content Management System and he was eager to be my test case! We bought the domain name. I tweaked the template. We got it going. And in the process added some free bells and whistles for functionality.

One final note: This is a first step for Tobin and his ministry. I’ll be the first to admit, it’s a patched system, but it seems to be working, it costs us nearly nothing, and Tobin is happy about it all. We’ll reevaluate as he gets down the road and see what his needs are. I think this solution could be used for bootstrapped ministries and even churches.

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Ingredients Used:

* 2,500 Business card printing from Online Print House

* IStockPhoto for the front image, then I used the color scheme for the back

* Fonts: Goudy and Garamond

How we used them

Our music minister gave them to those involved (in bundles of 20 or so), and asked them to invite others.