Posted in Life, Reflection on December 31, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Jeromy tagged me for this simple post. I read it at 10:38 PM and thought I’d bust it out before the new year, then I’m going to bed. I tag who ever reads this on New Years Day. The question is, “what were your five most significant moments in 2007. Here [...]
Posted in Conversations, Interesting Stuff, Life, Reflection, humanity, humor, politics on December 30, 2007 | 5 Comments »
I love to laugh and I love to laugh at myself. It makes humanity real. It lightens the load a little when we stop taking ourselves so seriously. The problem is that humanity, especially those in the spotlight, provide so much comic fare. But really, haven’t we all said something silly [...]
Posted in Jesus, Life, Missio Dei, Missional, discipleship, faith, humanity, love, redemption on December 29, 2007 | 2 Comments »
I had a fascinating conversation with a friend of mine yesterday about the nature of faith. He was essentially asking me how to follow Jesus in a very important area in his life. And in the context of our conversation, I told him that it was simple yet hard, which seemed like a [...]
Posted in Life, Missio Dei, Missional, Reflection, redemption, stewardship, tagged global warming, vegetarian on December 28, 2007 | 3 Comments »
So I’m sitting with my wife in bed and I’m reading Ode Magazine. Fascinating stuff. And I turn the page and begin reading, Meat Is Methane. It really gave me a shove. Turns out the meat I’m eating is a huge part of the global warming crisis. The article states,
“But CO2 [...]
Posted in Life, Missio Dei, postmodern, tagged diversity on December 27, 2007 | 5 Comments »
I live in Sacramento and it is increasingly becoming a multicultural community. Intel, which is the largest employer attracts a increasingly diverse population. Although Folsom, which is the community I live in is predominantly white, the makeup is changing. In my neighborhood I can find about fifteen different nationalities and probably six [...]
Posted in Interesting Stuff, Willow Creek, consumerism, discipleship, holidays, tagged Christma on December 26, 2007 | 4 Comments »
Mark Van Steenwyk has a great (old) post about Generica and the cost of living in the suburbs. Hey that’s me. People driving up to their manicured houses and closing the garage behind them. Thanks for the reminder Mark.
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Bill Kinnon throwing down with an interesting post on Willow Creek’s Christmas service. [...]
Posted in Jesus, Missio Dei, christianity, grace, holidays, humanity, love, redemption, tagged Christma on December 25, 2007 | 4 Comments »
About 2,000 years ago, God chose to reveal His ultimate plan through Jesus. He chose to break into the world and reveal that He is a God of love that will stop at nothing to redeem His creation. May you discover His love in a profound way this year and know beyond a shadow of [...]
Posted in Emerging Church, Jesus, Kingdom, Missio Dei, Missional, friends, humanity, love, postmodern, religion on December 23, 2007 | No Comments »
I live in California. Over the last thirty years it has become increasingly multicultural. We have every nationality in my neighborhood: European, Asian, Filipino, Hispanic, East Indian, German, Russian, and African American. I have several neighbors whose household language is different from mine. And as I drive by their houses, I often [...]
Posted in Book Reviews, christianity, church, redemption on December 22, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Jeromy asked me to post a more detailed response to my everything comment about what I would redeem in the church. But Kamp Krusty has a book review about Pagan Christianity that pretty much sums up my feelings. And it ain’t pretty.
Posted in Emerging Church, Missio Dei, Missional, church, church leadership, leadership, postmodern, redemption on December 21, 2007 | 12 Comments »
I had a very interesting lunch conversation with Jeromy and Jon (or is it Jahn?). It’s nice to have these conversations on what seems like a regular basis now. Oh the value of community.
One of the questions that came up in our conversation was the idea of redeeming the church. And this [...]
Posted in Kingdom, Missio Dei, Missional, consumerism, holidays, love, video, tagged Christmas on December 20, 2007 | 2 Comments »
As Christmas season approaches, there may be a few of you who still haven’t finished all of your Christmas shopping. I get that. I used to wait until Christmas Eve at closing time because I could do it in two hours. That feeling of expediency pervaded Christmas for me to a great extent. [...]
Posted in Conversations, Missio Dei, Missional, christianity, conflict, courage, leadership, spiritual warfare, war on December 17, 2007 | 4 Comments »
I have always found it interesting that David was the only one in the Hebrew people willing to take on Goliath. And as the story goes, he took the risk to trust God and take on his enemy. Goliath was not the first time he faced his fear, but it was one of [...]
Posted in Conversations, Emerging Church, Rob Bell, christianity, leadership, pastors, postmodern, tagged Billy Graham on December 15, 2007 | 9 Comments »
In Time magazine’s article on Rob Bell, David Van Biema references a quote from the Chicago Sun Times about Rob,
“That itch scratched, Bell, whom the Chicago Sun-Times has called an heir to Billy Graham”
I couldn’t find the original article. It seems to have been archived or removed but is widely referenced. But the [...]
Posted in Rob Bell, pastors, tagged Nooma, Time Magazine on December 14, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Nice article on Rob Bell in Time Magazine. (ht)
Posted in Emerging Church, Kingdom, Missional, church, marketing on December 13, 2007 | 9 Comments »
One of the things we talk about in the emerging church is a move away from the attractional church. And to a certain extent, I get this. The question behind this motivation is often that the attractional model is flawed and missing something. And my wonderings made me ask, “What is the attraction? [...]
Posted in Capitalism, Missio Dei, Missional, christianity, conflict, consumerism, holidays, redemption, tagged Christmas, Imago Dei on December 12, 2007 | 4 Comments »
Some time ago, and I can’t really ever recall the moment, someone gave me the obligation to keep up the traditional Christmas tradition. Today I’m letting it go. And in the words of Sara Groves, I simply realized that “I can’t afford it.”
Don’t get me wrong. I love Christmas and will celebrate [...]
Posted in Life, grace, humanity, love, tagged family on December 12, 2007 | 6 Comments »
Clay McCullough - October 20, 1927 - December 11, 2007
Yesterday was a day of reflection for me. The man who God brought into my life some thirty years ago had passed away. He was my step-father in word only. The truth was that he was my dad. I used to not [...]
Posted in Life, Missio Dei, Missional, Reflection, faith, friends on December 11, 2007 | 2 Comments »
A friend of mine recently decided to take God up on His offer to be God. It was awesome. And in true fashion God allowed him to be tested. But in the midst of a real trial my friend had decided that it was time to stop saying he would trust and [...]
Posted in Willow Creek, church, church leadership, tagged Bill Hybels, Reveal on December 10, 2007 | 2 Comments »
I’m reading No Perfect People Allowed by John Burke, pastor of Gateway Community church in Austin Texas. So far I’m liking what I’m reading. The desire for creating an authentic culture is addressing a deep need in the world turned off by judgmental Christians.
But this isn’t about the book.
Burke used to work for [...]
Posted in Conversations, Interesting Stuff, Kingdom, Sally Morgenthaler, christianity, drugs, equality, gender, humanity, postmodern on December 8, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Great article from Sally Morganthaler on women in the postmodern church context. She asks some awesome questions for women looking to make an impact in the church, including, “In summary, what does it really mean for a woman to be released into her potential, to be trusted with a ministry role, or to secure [...]
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