Wednesday, January 31, 2007

Where would Jesus protest?

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Hooray for a federal judge in Missouri for ruling that funerals are no place for protests. Fred Phelps and his Westboro (I won't deme...
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Tuesday, January 30, 2007

Simple Gifts

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Simple Gifts is one of the few songs I remember from my days of taking piano lessons. I actually hung on to it long enough to use in the e...
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Sunday, January 28, 2007

Good Monsters

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I love Jars of Clay for several reasons. Their songs are distinctive, they aren't like every other CCM band. They aren't afraid t...
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Saturday, January 27, 2007

The Doomsday Train

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No, this doesn't involve Pat Robertson. But it does fit nicely with our world today. Let's take stock of where we are. Iran and Nort...
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Friday, January 26, 2007

Worth looking at again

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Just let the power of the song and the music speak to you.

Missional Churches - Concluding thoughts

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I hope you have enjoyed the missional series. I know that thinking about what makes a church missional has been good for me. I'd lik...
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Wednesday, January 24, 2007

Missional Churches - Fifth in a series

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Here is the original article from which this is derived. (5) Finally, missional communities are not only ardent listeners for the earmarks...
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Contractual marriage redux

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A fellow blogger left this comment on the contractual marriage post. "I am reminded of 1 Cor. 13: "Love...keeps no record of wrong...
Tuesday, January 23, 2007

Contractual Marriage

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I was sitting in a Chinese buffet restaurant at lunch today (I know this sounds like the beginning of a bad country song) and overheard a co...
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Monday, January 22, 2007

Missional Churches - Fourth in a series

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For review, here is the original article on which all of this is based. (4) Embracing the ethnic and social diversities of local communitie...
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Sunday, January 21, 2007

Just to whet your appetite

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Go here to see the movie trailer for Amazing Grace. Check out this link to a previous post on this topic. Roy
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Friday, January 19, 2007

Missional Churches - Third in a series

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For review, here is the original article on which this post is based. (3) Missional communities are discontent with spiritual formation as...
Thursday, January 18, 2007

Missional Churches - Second in a series

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We continue our discussion of a Leadership magazine article on Missional Churches by looking at Tim Conder's second point: (2) Progra...
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Wednesday, January 17, 2007

Missional Churches - First in a series

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A recent article in Leadership magazine talked about some characteristics of " Missional Churches." I know this is another tit...
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Tuesday, January 16, 2007

Diversity

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This morning I was listening to Glenn Beck talk about Martin Luther King day and diversity. He raised an interesting point that I believe d...
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Friday, January 12, 2007

Grief

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January has turned into a season of grief for me, my family and some of our friends. Nothing new and devastating has happened, but I have b...
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Thursday, January 11, 2007

Portents of doom

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No this isn't about Pat Robertson. It seems we have a new comet in the neighborhood. And this one, if it lives up to expectations, m...
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Wednesday, January 10, 2007

Speaking as a prophet

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It's back to Pat again. Here are his official comments on the mass killing that he forecast onthe 700 Club earlier this month. Consid...
Tuesday, January 09, 2007

Epiphany

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We just celebrated one of the quietest parts of the Advent and Christmas Season. January 6 marks the date of the wise men from the east des...
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Monday, January 08, 2007

Stop and listen

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Check out this link . It is a lecture by N.T. Wright, Bishop of Durham, speaking during the Calvin College January Series on January 5. ...