“The crowed joined the attack against Paul and Silas, and magistrates ordered them to be stripped and beaten. After they had been severely flogged, they were thrown into prison, and the jailer was commanded to guard them carefully. Upon receiving such orders, he put them in the inner cell and fastened their feet [...]
Ed has some great thoughts in one of his recent posts he calls “hindsight theology.” I think he brings a great perspective in two ways:
1) it teaches us that we should not be so arrogant with “what i would have done” in certain situaitions, this applies to biblical stories and current / past [...]
I didn’t tell Kevin i was doing this, but since his first three entries have been so good, he deserves some readers. I met kevin a few months ago after he visited our church and its been a blast to get to know him and see his passion for Jesus. Kevin his [...]
i recently ran across a blog post of someone who visited our church (The Well. This person came with six others and it seemed she was the only one who liked it. She had some great thoughts in her post.
I think she is right when she says that she thinks “church” is bigger [...]
I just put live a new addition to our church community website. We host local concerts and art shows in our warehouse space twice a month. Tomorrow we have an ad going in the local music / arts paper called “philly edge” so we needed something for people to land on when they [...]
Chicago is going to the world series. While its not by way of my beloved Cubs. I’ll take any kind of championship i can get! (yes, we had the bulls during the 90’s but that has kind of worn off).
Most chicago fans are either cubs or sox. you love one and hate [...]
I haven’t been in the “blogging” kind of mood lately. Not really sure why. Life has been busy and good. One of the things that I can say now more than ever is that i just love my church community. in the midst of all of our insecurities and idiosyncrasies, I love [...]
I’ve been working lately on something for the concerts we host at our building.
Let me know what you think, if you have any suggestions, what you would change or if you see any typos…
Here it is.
I just got done instant messanging with a couple pastor friends of mine (who will remain nameless!) that are in the midst some trying times in their communities. While they were two completely different situations (one dealing with fellow staff members and one dealing with a spritually dead community), I just get frustrated [...]
For those of you who are bloggers who want to use WordPress but don’t have the ability to buy and manage your own domain name, there is now a new free (i think at least it is for the time being) service offered by wordpress that gives you a wordpress blog with the domain name: [...]
This is an e-mail i got from my cousin today:
While driving to work Monday morning my car just shut down, speedometer went to zero, accelerator didn’t work, luckily I coasted through a green light into a gas station where I could barley turn the steering wheel and use the brakes. Called roadside assistance. 1.5 hours [...]