Posted in Conferences, Emerging Church, Missio Dei, New Conspirators, church, church leadership, missional church, postmodern, tagged The New Conspirators, Tom Sine on February 29, 2008 | 2 Comments »
This morning began with an amazingly simple worship session. Sean Hall, and I believe his wife, led an acoustic set that was so real I think it caught me off guard. In fact the first gentleman to speak pointed that out. Sean’s first song focused on Justice that was so beautiful. [...]
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Tonight a full house arrived in a brand new church to celebrate four streams of renewal showing up in the church. The four streams are mosaic, monastic, emerging and missional. Each is a different expression bubbling up organically and without any real help from the organized church. Each has more of a [...]
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Rick Ianniello comes up with an absolutely hilarious parody of the feelings we feel about the democratic process. A must watch.
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Jason Clark is having some very interesting guest posts on the subject of universalism and the Christian faith.
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If you weren’t able to make the Sustainable Faith conference, the audio sessions are now available on [...]
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Much of the discussion around social justice is centered on reaching and loving the poor. Of all the mandates in Scripture, the poor are the front and center in the law and in the commands of Jesus. I get that. I have had many conversations around this with friends and family. [...]
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Posted in Art, music, tagged Larry Norman on February 25, 2008 | 5 Comments »
Larry Norman died yesterday. (ht: TSK) If you listen to any kind of CCM, know that this man was deeply influential in helping get it off the ground. He broke down a lot of the significant barriers between gospel and rock. He was widely considered one of the godfathers of Jesus Music (along with Keith [...]
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I’m going to the New Conspirators conference in Seattle this week. The conference is focusing on the four streams that are emerging: monastic, mosaic, missional and emerging. I really like the breadth of this conference. If you are going, let me know and we’ll hook up at some point so I can see your smiling [...]
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“The idea that God is actively nurturing us so that we might grow up to be like Him brings us face to face with our own laziness.”
M. Scott Peck, The Road Less Traveled
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Posted in Missio Dei on February 23, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Salvation is discovering that there is nothing I have done, am doing, or will do that will change the way God feels about me. It’s discovering that my actions don’t define who He is. It’s discovering that He really, really, really does love me when there is just no way that this [...]
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Note: This is one of the more personal entries I have ever written but something inside of me said share it.
Yesterday was a profound day for me. I faced what was one of my deepest fears and finally said, “No more.” I said goodbye to a long time friend that I had assumed protected [...]
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Jason Clark has graciously allowed me to post on his site. The title is called, A Space Where Love Resides. It’s about how we can easily hide in church. Here’s an excerpt.
For several weeks I would enter the parking lot, walk from my car to the sanctuary, sit at my seat, stay for the message [...]
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I’ve been dreaming of church lately. I’ve been asking what a holistic missional community bent towards discipleship looks like. This dream is not yet a reality but it is definitely in the works.
One of the tensions I’ve always run into is the idea that people don’t want to participate in God’s mission of [...]
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Posted in conflict, freedom, humanity on February 19, 2008 | 1 Comment »
One of the reasons I really like blogging is because it provides me with a really cool edit button. I have a brain that just doesn’t know when to stop sometimes and on occasion I will dash off a really interesting post that I know will generate some great dialog, lots of comments and even [...]
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Posted in fun, movies, tagged 007, James Bond on February 17, 2008 | 4 Comments »
The new Bond movie has been announced and lot of people are releasing fan trailers. Lots of great info on Youtube. It looks as cool as ever but it’s called Quantum of Solace.
Okay, I’ve seen every James Bond movie every made. I’ve seen Live and Let Die at least 20 times. I think Daniel Craig [...]
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Posted in Missio Dei, tagged Facebook on February 16, 2008 | No Comments »
If you use Facebook send me an invite and let’s connect. I’d love to see all of you and who you are. My profile is here.
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There’s a very common post that shows up about every couple of days. It follows the same pattern. Some put forth an idea, critique, or thought about the emerging church. The post attracts a lot of traffic from those who agree and disagree with the assessments being made. The comments begin nice [...]
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Posted in church, humor on February 14, 2008 | 5 Comments »
I just have to laugh. A friend of mine got a call about being a church greeter. And as a prerequisite for being a greeter was the inevitable “church meeting”. And the look on my friends face was priceless. He said, “I don’t need a church meeting to learn how to pass out bulletins and [...]
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Kathy Escobar provides a brilliant observation about the use of prepositions in relationship. She shares the difference between “to” “for” and “with”. It’s a must read.
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Mark Van Steenwyk asks some really good questions about population mix and how we do ministry when the mix is really changing.
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Brant Hansen shares a story of Kumar [...]
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I’ve always loved Lenny, from the early days of Let Love Rule. His new album, Love Revolution is definitely worth buying.
If You Want It by Lenny Kravitz
Don’t you let it all pass you by
Looking through life’s window pane
Don’t you sit around wasting time
That would be a crying shame
There’s a power that’s deep inside
And it burns [...]
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Posted in Emerging Church, Jesus, Missio Dei, church, church leadership, conflict, forgiveness, grace, pastors, redemption on February 11, 2008 | 6 Comments »
I have a friend who is a disgraced pastor.
He’s still trying to recover from the experience. He’s lost most of his friends and is struggling to understand how to put his life back together. There’s nothing simple to his story. It wasn’t a simple fall that is so easy to categorize. [...]
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I was thinking about the path I’ve taken towards following Jesus. And over this path I can not deny the impact theology has had on my journey. And much of my learning falls into only a couple of categories: history, philosophy, and ethics. History is essentially my study of what happened, or [...]
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