Love That Restores
Jay Bakker talks about a love that restores. It always comes back to love doesn’t it?
Missional Small Communities
If you are a pastor I highly encourage you to watch this video. In the video, Ed Stetzer explores the value behind organizing around missional communities. He spends a lot of time sharing some great metaphors around the yo-yo, which I thought was very insightful and creative. He also explored the easy way of being the church and the hard …
Not Cut Out For Religion
This was insightful and deeply creative from Jude Simpson.It explores the nature of following Jesus and our insipid desire to dumb it down. I ask you, what’s the answer, and you just ask me questions, and I’m like, “hello, I thought you were God?” Can’t I just download you, pay-as-I-go to decode you – a quick fix listen on my …
17 Common Types of Tweets
Twitter, the ADHD brother of Facebook, takes a lot of heat. And unfairly I would say. The critics always dumb it down saying it’s 90% crap. But I disagree. I find it fascinating listening to the thought process that emerges in 140 characters. In many ways, it clarifies the thinking process requiring us to really think about what we’re going …
Who Needs Convincing
What if John Piper’s diatribe is really a need to convince himself about an angry God? The Piper dust up has really gotten me thinking about something. How often have we seen someone really go out on a limb to prove a point about God, or doctrine, or something of significant importance? And in the wake of that, the person …
Questioning Authority
“Fundamentally, a society that asks questions and has the power to answer them is a healthier society than even one that accepts what it is told from a narrow range of experts and institutions.” Chris Anderson, The Long Tail. Recently my twelve year old daughter has been asking me if she could watch the movie, Twilight. It’s been an interesting …
Piper’s God
I feel sorry for Piper. If you’ve been anywhere near a blog in the last couple of days you probably couldn’t go two or three clicks before running into something about John Piper’s now infamous post on the ECLA’s “Consideration: Proposed Social Statement on Human Sexuality.” Piper concluded that the tornado than ran through the city was in his own …
Communication Breakdown
Are we listening to each other? A friend of mine came home recently and his wife happened to be a littler perturbed. The dialog went like this: Wife: “What did you spend at lunch?” Husband: “I don’t question you about your expenditures. Why do you question me?” Wife: “I’m not questioning you. I’m asking you a question.” Are you confused? …
Defending The Faith
Looking for your thoughts. Many of the arguments that occur on blogs and on the web are based on the idea of defending the faith. 1 Peter 3:15 (NIV) – But in your hearts set apart Christ as Lord. Always be prepared to give an answer to everyone who asks you to give the reason for the hope that you have. …
Do You Want To Date My Avatar
Popout [RSS - See Embedded Video] This song was inevitable but telling. In a not so distant future, we’ll create the means to interact with a fake version of ourselves. And that version will be, in the words of the video, “hotter than reality by far.” It reveals the willingness to live in a collective delusion that only a fake …
