Somewhere in Guatemala, there is a single mother carrying the child that my wife and I will raise as part of our family. I imagine It’s likely that she is young, barely 16. Quite possibly, has been sent to the city to carry and birth the child to save her family the shame.
Is she alone? [...]
You can read it here on my wife’s blog. I think she’s starting to enjoy this blogging thing and it warms my heart!
Also, a lot of you are asking how you can help, well, in the next couple days i’ll put up some info on some creative things you can do to help share in [...]
Recently I started working as the main web developer for Off the Map, ministry based in Seattle that is committed to “helping people become better humans one conversation at a time.” It’s essentially an effort to help the ‘rest of us’ do evangelism in a helpful way (especially in a postmodern culture). It’s really [...]
I have 79 e-mails in my inbox at the moment from last week. If you are waiting from an e-mail from me, chances are its still coming. Ah, the blessings and curses of this wonderful thing we call e-mail…
Almighty God, you have built your Church upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the cheif cornerstone: Grant that all of us may be joined together in the unity of spirit by their teaching, that we may be made a holy temple acceptable to you; through Jesus Christ our Lord, [...]
Almighty God, whose most deaar Son went not up to the joy set before he first suffered pain, and did not enter into glory before he was crucified: Mercifully grant that I, walking in the way of the cross, may find it to be none other than the way of life and peace, through Jesus [...]
It seems the planets aligned and my brother and I were thinking about this “story of the bible” thing at the same time. He wrote his own story version on his blog (instead of my simple bullet points).
I have decided that the only thing missing in mine so far is the idea of judgement. [...]
These last two months we have been dealing with terrible customer service by that demon-possessed company Comcast. So far we’ve had two cable boxes, three house visits by “expert” techs, 6 long and annoying phone calls where every operator i talked to gave me a different story. We still don’t have cable that totally works. [...]
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I just launched a new website for a church in Philadelphia called Woodland Presbyterian Church where my friend Scott Collins-Jones is the pastor. We’re pretty pleased with the results. The content is still needing some more work but the design is completly done.
Check it out here
What do you think of the site?
In my sermon today, to give context to our passage, I went through a very brief, and simplified history of Isreal (story of the bible) through the time of Jesus…
Here it is:
1. God creates the world
2. Man’s sin brings the world away from its original intent
3. God promises that Israel, through Abraham, in the midst [...]
The coed softball team that I play with on Sunday afternoon (which is made up of a bunch of people NOT from our church!) now has a website! I just launched it tonight and it should get…well some interesting discussion. We’ve got an awesome and crazy group of people on the team…view it here: [...]
Over the last few years I have been challenged by what it means to talk about money as a church in our culture. Many of us grew up in churches where money was used as an object of power, coercion and it was generally abused. As a result I wonder how many of us [...]
Reading William Willimon’s book, “Pastor” and came across this thought,
“A friend of mine says that there are at least two ways of knowing. One is that of the mathematics and similar endeavors, such as when you are working with a tough mathematical problem, struggling, and then at last you say, ‘I got it!’ That [...]
I have to confess. I am not by nature a candy bar person. I really enjoy my fruity candies. But I am completely addicted to the Take 5 candy bar from Hershey. I mean, come on…how can you resist it? I can’t. Try one. I promise you won’t be let down.
My wife made an update on our adoption blog. We are nearing the end of the paperwork game…
Here is a brief snapshot of some of the things that I took away from last week…
Finding unity in service: There is something to be said about how service and trials can unite communities and people that otherwise might not agree with each other, talk to each other or even like each other. I can [...]
The Hispanic church, Iglesia Bautista Getsemani (Gethsemane Baptist Church), that we did some work with down in New Orleans was written up in the paper on March 6th. You can read the article here.
I just made a new post over on the MereMission site that I am a part of. It’s called “Cultivating a missional congregation through worship.” Check it out here…
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I just added a few of the over 500+ pictures that we took down in New Orleans. Hopefully this little collection can give you a little idea of our trip…
Click on the here to view all [...]