I am going through the book “Renovation of the Heart” by Dallas Willard with about 10 people on Sunday mornings at church. It’s been a great read and a really awesome time of interaction with eachother as we are challanged with what it really means to have your spirit transformed.
This book is an amazingly [...]
I ordered this book the other day. I found an excerpt from it on the web today. It has gotten me really excited about reading it.
Check it out: New Way to be Human
For some reason, some of the most simple, basic, grade-school level statements often have a profound impact on my thought. Perhaps it’s that I see things again for the first time, things that I have been looking at, but not really seeing. Or, things that I have only half seen…and not really understood [...]
You know that you have been working at Starbucks too long when you walk into Chick-fil-a and order a chicken sandwhich and a “Venti Dr. Pepper..”
Man, I’ve got it bad for a Triple Grande One Pump Raspberry extra hot White Mocha…
What’s your favorite drink there?
From Jurgen Moltmann’s,“The Source of Life, the Holy Spirit and the Theology of Life”
“People who ask for the Holy Spirit to come to us - into our hearts, into the community we live in, and to our earth - don’t want to flee into heaven or to be snatched away into the next world. [...]
I just received my copy of, “The Missional Church” edited by Darrell L. Guder. This book is written by a number of “missiologists…the result is a three-year research project…this book isses a firm challange for the church to recover its missional call right here in North America…they present a Biblically based theology that takes [...]
As we open the store every morning at Starbucks my opening partner and I find the newspapers on the front step. We head inside and quickly throw the newspapers onto our little newspaper rack and i often scan the front page headlines to see what madness is took place in the last 24 [...]
One of the things that we discussed at length at our gathering of pastors last week was, “What would your church be like if there were no sunday morning worship service?”
This question really got me thinking. Not that I want to ditch our sunday morning service or anything, but it really made me look [...]
I just watched the film, “Bowling for Columbine.” It is a documentry by Michael Moore on America’s infatuation with guns and violence. It was tagged as a “funny movie.” However, i found it a very sobering movie and a really troubling depiction of the state of America. I didn’t really realize [...]