Posted in Emerging Church, Missio Dei, Missional, conflict, forgiveness, grace, love, redemption on October 31, 2007 | 6 Comments »
I was reading an interesting post from pelogifam and she says,
” My hubby has a Study Bible and it says that God takes us where we are. We gotta start somewhere.”
And I began to ask myself if we really believe that. Do we really believe that God accepts us where we are? Maybe. [...]
Posted in Emerging Church, emergent church, forgiveness, grace, love, music, tagged Linkin Park on October 30, 2007 | 4 Comments »
When all is said and done, I think Linkin Park will be remembered as one of the few bands that spoke for a generation. But what has been interesting is watching them move from harder rap-rock to a mellower emo. As much as I miss the older sound, the new sound appears to [...]
Posted in Brian McLaren, Emergent Village, Emerging Church, Jesus, Mark Driscoll, Missio Dei, Missional, Rob Bell, church leadership, conflict, emergent church, leadership, love, spiritual warfare on October 29, 2007 | 35 Comments »
Can you feel it in the wind? It feels like we’re in this strange season where voices within the church are pulling the trump card called heresy. I guess this is to be expected with any movement. The old gives way to the new only through troubled means. But as I [...]
Posted in Emerging Church, Missional, emergent church, friends on October 28, 2007 | No Comments »
A couple of friends of mine have new blogs. Check em out.
Sacred Sideways
A Mending Shift
Posted in Interesting Stuff, Missio Dei, Reflection, Tough Questions, humor on October 27, 2007 | 12 Comments »
Why is it that I can eat corn, lettuce, tomatoes, cheese and a little hamburger at home and its good for me but if I put it together and call it a taco at Taco Bell, it’s bad for me?
Why does is the minimum salary for Major League Baseball on average six times as much [...]
Posted in Brian McLaren, Conferences, Emergent Village, Emerging Church, Jesus, Missio Dei, christianity, denominations, emergent church, postmodern on October 26, 2007 | 8 Comments »
Emergent Village is looking for feedback on developing a Greenbelt type festival. And as I was taking it they included the following demographic question: “Primary Theological Orientation”. And to a certain extent I looked at the list and identified with almost every one, which made me think about Brian McLaren’s, “A Generous [...]
Posted in Interesting Stuff, Missio Dei, Tony Jones, leadership, love on October 25, 2007 | No Comments »
I wish I had a teacher like this. And the heart of it is his conviction not his certainty. Thanks Tony.
Posted in Emerging Church, Jesus, Missio Dei, Missional, Synchroblog, Willow Creek, christianity, church, church leadership, discipleship, leadership, marketing, pastors on October 24, 2007 | No Comments »
This is update number two of WWJD…WTC Synchroblog.
I’m a marketing guy. I spent some of my younger years working at my own agency with some of the best companies in the world. I lived the dotcom bubble. I was in the middle of it all. Good companies with good products would [...]
Posted in Missio Dei, Missional, Reflection, christianity, forgiveness, love, redemption on October 22, 2007 | 1 Comment »
When you have a spare moment try and think of something that will make God stop loving you.
Even when you walk away. He won’t.
Posted in Reflection on October 21, 2007 | 7 Comments »
I got tagged.
Quick: What were you doing ten, twenty and thirty years ago?
10 Years Ago: I was settling into marriage of three years. I was enjoying the strange phenomenon formerly known as the dot-com boom. My business was thriving and I was wondering what I did to be enjoying this blessing. My business partner and [...]
Posted in Missio Dei, Missional, Synchroblog, christianity, consumerism, drugs, love, money, poverty, stewardship on October 20, 2007 | 2 Comments »
This is somewhat of an update to the Synchroblog WWJD…WTC.
This weekend I went home to Silicon Valley (San Jose to be exact). In the Mercury News this morning the paper highlighted the fact that we still lead the U.S. in venture capital investment (about 20%). I grew up here and saw the valley [...]
Posted in Book Reviews, leadership, spiritual warfare on October 19, 2007 | 1 Comment »
A book review of Deadly Viper Character Assassins by Mike Foster and Jud Wilhite.
Mike and Jud have crafted a well thought out Kung Fu Survivor’s Guide to help start a much needed conversation around the enemy. They’ve put a names to a set of faces and have done so in a really creative [...]
Posted in Jason Clark, Missio Dei, Missional, Synchroblog, money, stewardship on October 18, 2007 | 6 Comments »
I first want to say that when I chose to participate in this synchroblog I did not anticipate nor expect what it would do to me. And yet today, a mere three days into it I have begun to ask some serious questions about some things in my life. It’s called “my stuff”. [...]
Posted in Capitalism, Greg Boyd, Missio Dei, money, politics, poverty on October 17, 2007 | 17 Comments »
Greg Boyd, who I enjoy reading, wrote in his blog,
“It’s hard to deny that capitalism is the best economic system around. It creates wealth far better than feudalism, communism, socialism or any other system one could name. But for all its advantages, capitalism has one major drawback that Kingdom people need to be concerned about: [...]
Posted in Conferences, Emerging Church, Interesting Stuff, Missional, church leadership, discipleship, humor, spiritual warfare on October 16, 2007 | 1 Comment »
This is a really cool site. What do you look like and what do you eat for breakfast? What does it say about you?
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Mike Foster, formerly of XXXchurch.com is releasing a new book, “Deadly Viper Character Assassins“. Yes, the title comes from the movie Kill Bill. You can check out his [...]
Posted in Jesus, Missio Dei, Missional, leadership, love, redemption on October 16, 2007 | 1 Comment »
I need videos like this to remind me that love wins. (ht)
Posted in Emerging Church, Jesus, Missio Dei, Missional, Synchroblog, christianity, church, church leadership, denominations on October 15, 2007 | 17 Comments »
This synchroblog is about asking what would Jesus do with the church. The question was meant to stimulate our thinking about what we could do bring life to the church, instead of just complaining about it. And as I was thinking about it I kept wondering what Jesus would actually say to us [...]
Posted in Bono, Quotes on October 13, 2007 | 8 Comments »
Bono once wrote,
“I’m not afraid to die. I’m not afraid to live.
And when I’m flat on my back, I hope to feel like I did.”
God I hope I can say that.
Posted in Emergent Village, Emerging Church, Missional, emergent church, postmodern on October 12, 2007 | 2 Comments »
If you’ve read my blog enough you’ll know I’m a big proponent of the emerging church. Something good is happening and I want to be part of it. Part of my desire has been to meet with others who are interested in exploring what the emerging church looks like in context and what it really [...]
Posted in Bruce Lee, Jesus, Missio Dei, Missional, Quotes, church leadership, discipleship, leadership, love on October 11, 2007 | 1 Comment »
I have always been a Bruce Lee fan. He was an amazing person to watch in action. He embodied a special charisma that was magnetic. One of my favorite movies of all time was Enter The Dragon. There’s something beautiful about the martial arts and the way Bruce practiced it. One [...]
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