Post-Invisible Children Night Commute
Originaly Posted on April 30, 2006
It was good. It was cold. There were about 1200 people there. I didn’t sleep. Now its time for church. Pictures later…
It was good. It was cold. There were about 1200 people there. I didn’t sleep. Now its time for church. Pictures later…
If you are interested in joining us (at The Well) for the night commute here are the details:
1. Meet at church at 5:00 / we’re leaving for the train station at 5:30 sharp
2. Eating a bunch of pizza from 5-5:30 (bring $5.00 to help cover the cost)
3. Taking the train down and back ($8.50 round [...]
I wrote this, this morning sitting in Starbucks. I am trying to do more writing by hand so I am translating this from my cool new journal. This is more of a writing exercise that I started with no purpose other than trying to honestly reflect on the things around me. I feel [...]
God, almighty and everlasting Father, you have brought me in safety to this new day: Preserve me with your mighty power, that I may not fall into sin, nor be overcome by adversity; and in all I do direct me to the fulfilling of your purpose; through Jesus Christ my Lord. Amen.
Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord,
the people he chose for his inheritance.
From heaven the Lord looks down
and sees all humankind;
from his dwelling place he watches
all who live on earth—
he who forms the hearts of all,
who considers everything they do.
No king is saved by the size of his army;
no warrior escapes by his [...]
Just some questions.
Galatians 4:19…”My dear children, for whom I am again in the pains of childbirth until Christ is formed in you…”
I wonder if we really want that. I wonder if we are really ready to want that. I wonder, I just wonder, if most of us have really seen this as the goal of [...]
Easter Weekend Schedule
Good Friday:
- Prayer Labyrinth: 5:00 pm – 10:oo pm
- Experiential Reflection Service: 7:00 pm – 8:15 pm
*Childcare will be provided from 7:00 – 8:30 pm
Saturday Community Meal: 6:00 pm - ???
- We will share in a meal together and then spend some time in reflection on the weekend.
- Please bring a main dish [...]
“The historical foundation for this is Christ, or - to be more exact - Christ’s resurrection from the dead. It is from Christ’s resurrection that the Spirit proceeds -the Spirit who renews and gives birth to new life, and who lays hold of us in faith. For the forgiveness of sins, we are pointed to [...]
This morning I launched a new website for a friend’s church. Took a ton of work but I think it turned out well. The site is actually built in php using WordPress to manage all the content, news, podcast etc. All the content is fully updatable by the pastor and/or secretary so [...]
My wife has finally updated our adoption website again. head there to read about the process…
www.hiestandadoption.org
the feed is here
From Alan Roxburgh’s book “The Sky is Falling” (which i HIGHLY suggest you purchase and read):
“Luther brought the organ into his congregations because it was the instrument university students used in the beer halls to sing their songs. Luther wanted to communicate the gospel to these students so he brought their instrument into the church [...]
I made a presentation of the little piece I wrote below in Keynote and exported it into a flash file (very cool feature by the way!).
It lost a tad of the formatting and the sound in the export…
view it here
oh, and if you are bored, you can download this sermon here…
Finally, the details you’ve been waiting for (maybe…let me know if i missed anything)
Every day in Northern Uganda thousands of children commute from their homes in the bush to sleep the cities to avoid being abducted from their homes by rebel warriors.
On April 29th, thousands of people in the states will raise awareness to this [...]
I wrote this for the message i preached this sunday. The text was John 4.
Jesus loves me.
This I know.
For the Bible tells me so.
Jesus loves me.
I think I know.
But the Bible does tell me so.
Jesus loves me?
Wait. I am not quite so sure I know.
But, I guess the Bible tells me so.
Jesus loves me…
To be [...]
Better late then never. Someone asked me to give some more details about this event and the organization now has them online here
We’re taking a group from church down with us if you want to join us…
I am working on a new website for a conference i go to…
http://www.twelvekeysseminar.com/
There isn’t any content in the site yet and i still have a few kinks to work out but i was wondering what you thought of the basic design…
This week marked the first service at our church since Brad and his wife moved to Minnesota. If you aren’t familiar with our community, Brad has been here for nine years and has had a major impact on the community that we are today. We really are going to miss him and his family. They [...]