In my morning devotions I have been reading through a book by Dallas Willard and Jan Johnson called Renovating the Heart in Daily Practice. This morning I was confronted with a big idol that I struggle with in my life...
I can't believe that fall is here already. It seems like yesterday that we bought this place (No Mistake) and began our work. My wife and I and another couple bought an old plantation home and a little over 100...
I am preparing for a sermon/teaching this weekend on mission and being missional. We have realized that we have used language that our people probably "kinda" understood but we have had no formal training on what it means to be...
For years now I been pouring my life into full time ministry and I am finally getting to the point to where I just want to be a "normal" Christian. The church in a Western context is so blah. The...
I have not been posting lately but for the past few weeks I have had the hankering to join the conversation and get back in the blog circuit. For too long I have been voyeuring in on other conversations and...
Reading a great new tome by Eugene Peterson - The Jesus Way. In it he says - You must enter into Jesus' way to enter into Jesus' truth and then with both of those we enter Jesus life....
This morning we rolled out a significant change to the manner in which Terrablogs handles blog indexing on the blog portals. People were very excited when we added the ability to index any RSS enabled blog, and today we effectively...
Finally finished with school for the semester... I am so excited.. and relieved now I will have more time for my own reading... (which seminary seems to get in the way of my learning (ha!!)) More blogging on the way....
Here is the continuing series on principles of 21st century mission. Principle #2 Ask questions - Do not hurry to the answers In today's postmodern world a premium is put on asking questions (which is good) Question this - question that. Questions...
Here is an excerpt of an interesting article that Pastor Rod got from Credenda Agenda. Culture is not always sinful - but the human heart is sinful... (that does not mean that the sinful human heart does not create sinful...
Here is a good entry on third places and how to find them in your community over at the Blind Beggar - a great site dealing with missional Christianity....
I am reading through a book on mission devotionally - it is call Church on the Edge by Chris Stoddard and Nick Cuthbert - two chaps from across the pond. I have decided that I am going to blog...
If we preach a gospel that does not involve the church - then why do we complain when people are not a part of it? If the Kingdom is not preached - then why are we offended when people do...
"We are accustomed to by long usage to an elaborate system of church organization , a peculiar code of morality. We cannot imagine any Christianity worthy of the name existing without the elaborate machinery which we have invented. We naturally...
"Brethren, whatever other gifts you have, if you are to succeed, you must have hearts, and hearts that can feel." - William Booth what a great quote - + Oh Lord for heart that can feel and feel deeply....
I do not want to join the fray of people who have opinions about the evangelical mess that Ted Haggard caused, but I was reading through a text about narrative preaching by Calvin Miller and I ran across these quotes: "Megachurch is...
"Only in the heart of the Christian community can you find a concept of God as holy love, who seeks identity and fellowship with us and who desires union with us to such a degree that he willingly became one...
The story of Scripture is something that I am going to start teaching on in the next few months. I am beginning to collect resources now for that. I would like to give an understanding of scriptures that show the...
Here is a quote from Bill Hull's new resource on discipleship - "We not only have been saved by grace - but we have been paralyzed by it..." Dallas Willard quoted by Bill Hull The Complete Book of Discipleship...
Here is a discussion at Alan Hirsch blog about Jesus being disequilibrium to our lives. The jargon that he uses (he is a really smart guy) about "routinization of charisma" is basically sociology speak for us soon making the spontaneous...
We (Sandy and I) have signed the contract on a new house - actually the old plantation with the land. So the retreat center journey begins. It is exciting. Here is a prayer that I heard at the conference we...
"When we have no impressive buildings and no swollen budgets to sustain our work, often then do we realize the best we have to offer this post-Christendom world is the quality of our relationships, the power of our trustworthiness, and...
+Take my poor heart, and let it be Forever closed to all but thee; Seal thou my breast, and let me wear That pledge of love forever there. Amen -Prayers of John Wesley...
I received this book - Permission Granted to Do Church Differently today I have read a little - it is a great book - from a prophetic guy named Graham Cooke - he has been sensing from God the...
I have been doing school this semester and I have been taking a pretty full load. It has been challenging and stretching - but I am enjoying it. Sandy and I have a great deal going on in our lives...
Alan Hirsch of Shaping of Things to Come and future release The Forgotten Ways is blogging now. It is great to be able to read such great minds on the internet....
Michael Frost at the Mission conference that we attended discussed Missional rhythms that his community embraced. He advocated that each respective community pray about what could be some missional rhythms in their body. Here are the rhythms - they are...
The conference that we went to this past weekend - was an incredible experience. It was almost like getting "saved" again (actually I was - from my misplaced understanding of "church") Basic concepts - Our Christology (doctrine of Christ) informs our...
This weekend my friend Joe and I went to Pasadena, Calif. for a conference on the missional church and also to check out Fuller Seminary. I really had a good time. The conference itself was awesome and actually stretched Joe...
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I have a new blog now that I am posting on as well... it is called Missional Thinking... it is a no thrills blog - but I am posting stuff on my missional musings. Check it out if you get...
This Saturday night we are having Mike Dispenza play for us... He is a marvelous local artist - plays a great mix of rock. Come out and hear him - He will be starting 8:00 (or is it 9:00)...
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