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The good and bad?
I have a very good friend who has had quite a roller coaster of a journey the past few years, well actually his life has been one i guess. he’s been on a really hard journey especially these few years just dealing with a lot of…well…crap. Some it is fault, other things he had no control over. in this process, he has really gone through, and is still going through a process of searching out what following …
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Decisions/Theology in community?
One of the things that we have been trying to “do” here at The Well is think through and figure out how we can allow our entire community to inform the larger decisions and theological direction of our community. Going with the assumption that the Holy Spirit is actually at work in this community of people (which, by the way I think is a LOT harder to actually believe that it seems like it should be. its one …
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Blogrolling again…
You may or may not have noticed that after a long absence i added my blogroll to my site again. I had taken it off because well, i just did. Unfortunately it caused some misunderstandings, controversey etc because of who was on it. Good points were made and taken. I added it back again this time with a disclaimer. There are so many blogs out there these days that are valuable and some that …
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Invisible Children @ The Well
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What’s your agenda?
“Why are you still my friend? I am never going to become a Christian,” he said. By this time we’d been friends for a few months. We worked to together in at an insurance company basically as the scum of the office. It was one of those jobs where you begin to idolize the movie “Office Space” because it really could have been you.
Anyways, we had a number of spiritual conversations and I was really …
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Spamalot here i come!
My wonderful wife, knowing my passionate love for Monty Python and the Holy Grail and all kinds of humor related to it, got us tickets to the broadway version of it. Apparently its a pretty awesome show because she could not find tickets from the ticket office and had to buy them from somewhere shady i think. In fact, the show we got isn’t till September.
But, those of you who …
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Revisit Bosch’s Thoughts on Movements…
Over the last three or four years i have found many new and good friendships in the “Emergent” conversation. Whether it has has been a individual, one-on-one conversation with a friend or being part of a larger group of friends intentionally discussing the church i have found much to stimulate my thinking, challange me, disagree with and inspire. In fact, while enjoying the “conversation” the last few years i have probably had more interest in …
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So….a little update
Instead of actually writing on my blog on my day off today. i thought it would be fun to redsign it a bit. Still working out some of the obvious kinks with colors…but i think i am almost there…
i’ll start blogging again soon. there is so much i have thought, “i need to write about that” but have just not gotten around to sitting down and doing it..
This has been a crazy few weeks. Back a …
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Simple Beginnings.
The following is the first section of a little writing project i stated while i was riding up and down the Mississippi River with my dad and brothers. There are about 20 more pages to go along with this…but this is the first section. Wanted to get it out there and hear some feedback if you are so inclined. I you are nice, perhaps I will keep posting the following sections after i do some more …
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Spaces, Community & Control
From “The Search to Belong” by Joe Myers
“Environmentalists” practice restraint when it comes to controlling the results. They are primarily concerned with creating a “healthy” climate for spontaneity to occur. They develop simple environmental parameters and then sit back and see what happens. “Programmers” on the other hand, take control.
If we are to allow people full opportunities to belong, we must switch from being group programmers to becoming group environmentalists. It starts with giving …
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phillyemergent.com
introducing a really boring website…but a really exciting group of people…
http://www.phillyemergent.com/
This new cohort of friends who are committed to “wrestling with what it means to be Church for the sake of the world in the North American context” will be meeting on the third thursday’s of every month down near the UPenn area in Philly. If you are from the area, feel free to join us.
Looking forward to continuing to develop new friendships with people who …
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Psalm 69:7
“Let not those who hope in you be put to shame through me, Lord God of hosts;
Let not those who seek you be disgraced because of me.”Wow. Let that roll around in your mind for a while.
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Beyond Bosch?
I’m at home in Chicago snooping around my dad’s home office. I usually find some good stuff in here especially since he was heavily involved in world missions for a while with groups like MAF, WEF, TEAM, JARS, etc - what’s with all the acronyms?!) It was here that i came found the gem of a book by Darrell Guder, The Continuing Conversion of the Church…
This time I …
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Vacation.
Heading to Chicago for a week with my wife and son to see my parents, brothers and sisters. Looking forward to a good time with them relaxing and reconnecting…
Apparently I am now friends with myself on facebook. I live in Canada too eh.