Archive for March, 2007
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An Easter People
I’ve been reading a book by Eugene Peterson called, Living the Resurrection and wanted to share a short section with you. Hopefully it will encourage you in your workday or wherever you are…
“The [world] is obviously not a vacation …
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By the way
By the way, that really, really cute Guatemalan kid at the top of my blog is my son. We’re in the process of adopting him and hope to have him home in 4-6 weeks (today is March 27th). We …
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March Madness, Division II Style…
You just don’t get endings like this often…watch this. It’s amazing.
HT: Vitamin Z
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The Missional Church in Suburbia
Below is a paper I wrote in an effort to give an introduction to Mission in a Suburban Context. I presented this paper at the Eastern Region Evangelical Theological Society meeting on March 23, 2007. There is much more …
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I’m Reading a Paper on Missional in Suburbia at ETS
After a kind suggestion from one of my professors at Biblical, I submitted a paper I wrote called, “The Gospel and the God Forsaken: The Challenge of the Missional Church in Suburban America” to the ETS regional student paper contest.
My …
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Thoughts on Authority in Leadership (An encouragement to read Ken Callahan)
I’ve been trying to be continually reading about leadership and have found the book Effective Church Leadership by Kennon Callahan very helpful. Now, truth be told, most of the titles of Ken’s books are fairly uninspiring. They …
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A helpful perspective on evangelism
This is a very, very helpful perspective on evangelism from Andrew Hamilton in Australia. I feel he has a pretty good balance here in looking at friendship in evangelism and just simply sharing our hope (my alternative to saying “sharing …
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Chinese Churches and “Good” Magazine
I headed down to Philadelphia to hang out with my friend LT (who is in my top five favorite people in the world!). LT is a pastor at Chinese Christian Church and it has been really interesting …
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Lazy Sunday and a Quick Look at Evangelism.
After a day of church, preaching and a great leadership team meeting, I’m finally taking an afternoon, watching basketball and enjoying a lazy Sunday afternoon. I took the guilt free free time to tidy up the blog design a …
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A few helpful missional links
Corporate Language in Leadership by Albert Hsu
Changing the way we see justice in the local church by David Fitch
How organizations transform themselves by Alan Jamieson of Prodigal Kiwi35 Ways to Help the Homeless from JustGive.org (thanks …
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Two Events Worth Considering…
My newfound blogging friend Tom Ward Jr. (affectionately known in some circles as Mr. Purple) and his church (Eastpoint) is hosting two really helpful looking events in the nexts couple months. I know that I will be …
