Lots of good articles in my RSS reader this morning. If you don’t have an RSS feed reader (even if you’re not a big blog fan) I recommend it heartily. It condenses hours of blog surfing down to minutes. If you ever came across websites or blogs that you thought you’d like to read more [...]
Continue reading about Conversational Gospel, Marriage, and Studying as a Spiritual Discipline
Talk about a recipe for growth! I just started thinking about all the connections I am going to be maintaining this fall. If God is in this, I can’t help but learn something this year. One thing my leadership courses taught me at ACTS was mentoring is critical to growth. You need three types of [...]
So yesterday, Adam preached his first sermon at Community of Hope. It was a message a lot of us needed to hear heading into a busy fall where a lot is being asked of us, about whether following Jesus is easy or hard. It served a second purpose as well – it allowed us to [...]
A church planting blogger and his wife that I follow are off to be assessed. My prayers go with them. I know for myself, in some ways I look forward to that step for us, and in other ways I am frightened by it. What if we are the only ones who think we are [...]
This is my second attempt at writing this blog entry and it’s a long one! I’ve been so busy with kids and my studies that I haven’t had the free time I’ve wanted to write my thoughts out here. I wanted to talk about my trip down to Florida. Shane has already covered the experience [...]
I am starting to notice that there is a weight the deeper you get into pastoral ministry. As we proceed with team building and training with Awana, and getting our Community Group together this fall, we are having a lot of hard conversations with people about where they are at. Work challenges, relationship challenges, sin [...]
Some quick bullets for ya. Today’s our 10th Anniversary! Happy anniversary to my wife, who has staggered my imagination by her dedication to me and our life together for ten whole years. Thank you for everything you have done and ever will do – I love you. Good news on the graduating essay front. My [...]
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It’s not a review yet… I’m not finished reading it yet. But I will say this: This book is changing the way I think. That is rare. I find it’s influencing everything I think about church – why we do what we do, why there are problems, what the solution is, what a Christian should [...]
From a quote on a blog I read occasionally, “Emergents are multiplying, and for most of those participating in the movement this multiplicity is not perceived as a challenge but as an opportunity for forging transversal differentiated networks oriented by and toward reformative communion that empowers persons to share in the self-giving love of Jesus’ [...]
Continue reading about Sometimes I Don't Want to Understand.
So I was out with two of my oldest friends last night. Though I chat with Greg on the net regularly, I hadn’t seen him “in the flesh” in a good 9 years. Trevor I haven’t actually spoken to in probably 6 or 7 years – since Cal’s wedding. It was great seeing them and [...]
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