The question seemed innocent: “John, do you have a favorite hymn you’d like me to play at your installation?” My answer to Matt, the worship director at Prince of Peace, was immediately condemning, though: ”You know, Matt, I can’t tell you a song title. I really don’t know the hymnbook very well. In fact, I [...]
Leonard Sweet’s Post-Modern Pilgrims is a book I read & reread every couple of years just to refresh my knowledge of his EPIC paradigm, and to evaluate how I’ve been implementing this in my life & my ministry.
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Keyboards are sooooo 1980s. My son expects that he can touch the icons on my computer desktop and [...]
I really felt educated by my rss wanderings this week. Enjoy!
I don’t feel old yet, but I’ll bet in another 5 years, reading this list will make me want to go out & buy a cool sportscar (BMW convertible, probably): What kids entering college think – Beloit College Mindset List. via Jesus Creed
Good food for [...]
This is a chapter that communicates a lot in a very true way about grief. You can feel the emotion on the pages as Mack experiences the fear and loss associated with the abduction and murder of his daughter. And as he’s walking through it, part of the reason I think it feels so real [...]
Continue reading about Exploring, “The Shack”-4- The Great Sadness
So today I’m heading with my wife to Fort Worth to bring them a mural that they commissioned from my wife. It’s a great image of Jesus in this dance with little children and is based on a drawing the former pastor there had seen.
Right now it’s in four canvasses that overlap which should bring [...]
For the next few weeks we’ll be using Mark Batterson’s “In a Pit with a Lion on a Snowy Day” to help us stimulate a conversation about God-given opportunities in our lives. He blogs at: evotional.com
Remember the story of Benaiah? 2 Samuel 23:20-21.
When he was a boy, did Benaiah’s mom tell him not to play [...]
Do you like magic? Even if you don’t, I think you’ll find this video interesting. And if you can’t quite figure out how it works and you want to know, check this one out too.
Now I’ve loved magic since I was a kid and even dabbled in it for a little while, but it’s not [...]
Continue reading about Videos That Make us Laugh and Think- Pt 8- Magic!
Have you heard about netvibes yet? It has literally saved me hundreds of hours of web surfing time by simply allowing me to have everything I want in one place instantly. I totally love it. Check out our Faith Emergence Universe where you can access some of the sites that we frequent.
Tyranny. [...]
To continue our discussion from last week and to finish our look at Pop Goes the Church by Tim Stevens, let’s consider the last things he discusses: stories of churches who are engaging & redeeming pop culture for the sake of the gospel.
Each church story is unique, but there seem to be some common threads [...]
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