Posted in God's love, Jesus, Missio Dei, Restoration, grace, humanity on May 1, 2008 | No Comments »
A friend of mine sent me this but I don’t know who wrote it. Its a sobering reminder that God used broken people to accomplish His mission of restoration and reconciliation. God chose to love, even when we didn’t deserve it.
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The next time you feel like GOD can’t use you, just remember…
Noah was [...]
Posted in Kingdom, Missio Dei, conflict, doctrine, forgiveness, grace, redemption on April 30, 2008 | 5 Comments »
One of my favorite stories in Scripture is the Parable of the Prodigal Son. Some call it the parable of the Loving Father. And easily missed is the story of other son.
I don’t think the story is complete without the other son. He provides so much emotion and context for how people [...]
Posted in Emerging Church, technology on April 29, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Every once in a while I get a Spanish comment. This is a simple, cool translator I found.
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7,871 FREE fonts. Yep.
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Brad Cecil explains, Why I am Emergent (By one guy who shouldn’t be)
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The coolest thing I hear this week: Are you living a life that is worth telling stories about?
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One of the more [...]
Posted in God's love, Jesus, Quotes, The Horses Mouth, humanity, money, politics, tagged Shane Claiborne on April 29, 2008 | No Comments »
“I think this idea we are to render unto Caesar’s what is Caesar’s is an interesting one. And I think a lot of time we miss the point of what Jesus was doing there. I think Jesus is spinning everything on its head and calling into question what is Caesar’s. Caesar can have his [...]
Posted in fun, tagged Apple, Photobooth on April 28, 2008 | 4 Comments »
I love this program. Why? Because it gives me a reason to be silly with my kids.
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Posted in doctrine, faith, hell, love, theology on April 28, 2008 | 13 Comments »
There are some things about being a follower of Jesus that are really hard to deal with. They don’t provide easy answers, even when we want them to be easy. The following passage below of “The Sheep and The Goats” is one of those. This is the one people typically point to [...]
Posted in friends, humanity, humor on April 27, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I have a friend in my life who makes me laugh absolutely every time I see him. He’s hysterically funny. And his humor is often centered in making fun of himself or doing some caricature that is hilarious. In a crowded room he can take over, capturing people’s attention.
And I realized that [...]
Posted in Emerging Church, music, postmodern, tagged Moby on April 26, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Moby has a new album Last Night out which I haven’t heard yet, so I was listening to Play. Too many good songs on one album. In looking Moby up I found this,
“I can’t really know anything. Having said that, though, on a very subjective level I love Christ. I perceive Christ to [...]
Posted in God's love, Reconciliation, Worship on April 25, 2008 | 2 Comments »
This is why I dig David and the Psalms.
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Psalm 100:5 - For the LORD is good and his love endures forever; his faithfulness continues through all generations.
Psalm 106:1 - Praise the LORD. Give thanks to the LORD, for he is good; his love endures forever.
Psalm 107:1 - Give thanks to [...]
Posted in Quotes, The Horses Mouth, denominations, tagged Ed Stetzer on April 24, 2008 | 5 Comments »
“The Kingdom of God is bigger than your denomination.”
“Here’s what it boils down to with the emerging church thing. I don’t lie about people. I’m not perfect. I probably have my nauances and stuff, but I think one of the things people within the emerging church would say is I [...]
Posted in Jesus, Missio Dei, Missional, leadership, love, tagged Ken Blanchard on April 24, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Kenneth Blanchard once said, “The key to successful leadership today is influence, not authority.” We don’t like that do we? But organically it makes sense.
Authority is about control and forcing people to do what we want. It’s about getting our way often at the expense of other people. It’s about head down, butt [...]
Posted in Emerging Church, Missio Dei, Missional, christianity, love, postmodern on April 23, 2008 | 22 Comments »
Tonight was our Emergent cohort meeting. And it was good for me in a lot of ways that I was able to express some of the deeply held ideas and beliefs that have been brewing inside of me. Here is some of what I said.
The church system is designed to produce dependency on [...]
Posted in Missio Dei, Reconciliation, Restoration, denominations on April 22, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Blue Like Elvis has this great quote from a guy I don’t know. But I like it.
“If we act like a denomination, we become irrelevant.” BGCT Executive Director, Randel Everett
At the heart of mission is restoration of relationship. And by default, denominations create barriers to relationship. Our role is to become so [...]
Posted in politics, tagged Barack Obama on April 22, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Two months later, this still moves me.
Posted in Conversations, tagged Chuck Colson, Evangelical, Greg Boyd, Shane Claiborne on April 21, 2008 | 19 Comments »
I’d like your input on something. This question arises out of the dialog between Chuck Colson, Greg Boyd, and Shane Claiborne, who met on Krista Tippett’s show Speaking of Faith. I think this dialog is a great sample of the dialog within the greater context going on within the church. Leave it to public radio [...]
Posted in Journey, Quotes, humanity on April 21, 2008 | 2 Comments »
“The real voyage of discovery lies not in seeking new lands, but in seeing with Fresh Eyes.” ~ Marcel Proust
Posted in Life, music on April 20, 2008 | No Comments »
My daughter is doing the school talent show and it brought back memories. When I was in fourth grade I did this song. It was called Jack and Jill by Ray Parker Jr. and Raydio. I actually won.
What’s your talent show memory?
Posted in Emerging Church, God's love, Restoration, emergent church, freedom, love on April 20, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Jake Bouma called me subversive. He even gave me an award for it. I won it for this post, Top 50 Possible Reasons Why You’re Not Emergent.
Subversive is an interesting word.
sub·ver·sive adjective, tending to subvert or advocating subversion, esp, in an attempt to overthrow or cause the destruction of an established legally constituted government.
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Posted in Missio Dei, money, poverty, social justice on April 19, 2008 | No Comments »
So I’m watching this commercial for a company that provides “cash” loans that you “call” to use their services. It’s a stupid commercial but it was live on my DVR so I had to sit through it. And then the fine print comes up. And it says,
“The APR for a typical loan [...]
Posted in Quotes, tagged Pope Benedict on April 19, 2008 | 2 Comments »
“Only when their faith permeates every aspect of their lives do Christians become truly open to the transforming power of the Gospel.”
Pope Benedict XVI
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