I mean come on. This guy is ridiculous. I have never seen someone slow down the game like Hester does. Its like the rest of the players are in slow motion as he takes a few steps to check the scene and then he takes off. I grew up in Chicago [...]
“The gospel is the work of God to restore humans to union with God and communion with others, in the context of a community for the good of others and the world.”
- Scot McKnight in Jesus Creed
I’m doing some maintenance stuff on my website at the moment (Sunday, 12/30). It might be all out of wack for a bit. Sorry about that.
Update:
New Year Cleaning:
I’m not sure how much of a difference you’ll notice but I cleaned up the site a bit more. I took off that intro [...]
For about 6 years I (and therefore The Well) have been relationally connected to about 10 or so church planters from all over the US. These men and women have been a great encouragement and been great partners in the gospel for us.
From this relational network of pastors / church planters grew a [...]
A little something I wrote as I was thinking about the significance of the incarnation.
Can you imagine…
Waiting for thousands of years
For the one who would deliver you and your people
from oppression, from sin, from injustice,
from the brokenness of this world.
And when he finally comes,
He is a baby.
Born in [...]
I was looking at my bookshelf the other day and realized that this year was a fairly good reading year for me. So, I started trying to remember what I read and how I liked what I read. So, I’ve decided to share that here. I was going to post my thoughts [...]
Tony blesses us with this gem:
A Franciscan Benediction:
May God bless you with discomfort,
at easy answers, half-truths, and superficial relationships,
so that you may live deep within your heart.
May God bless you with anger,
at injustice, oppression, and exploitation of people,
so that you may work for justice, freedom, and peace.
My God bless you with tears,
to shed for those [...]
I was looking at my bookshelf the other day and realized that this year was a fairly good reading year for me. So, I started trying to remember what I read and how I liked what I read. So, I’ve decided to share that here. I was going to post my thoughts [...]
For the last three months a team of people have been driving down to Philadelphia every monday night to serve and get to know the homeless population down there. Just last week we even brought a few of friends we’ve gotten to know well back to our building and had dinner with them. [...]
If you are looking for some last minute gifts, let me encourage you to head over to One Village Coffee and get some of their Kenya AA (It’s half way down the store page). I am drinking it right now and its fantastic. OVC is a great roaster that’s doing some great things [...]
Welcome to my handy dandy little blog. If you are new there might be some interesting things to read about. We have adopted a child from Guatemala. I wrote a paper on being Missional in Suburban America that people seem to like reading. I make websites for a living to complement my [...]
I was looking at my bookshelf the other day and realized that this year was a fairly good reading year for me. So, I started trying to remember what I read and how I liked what I read. So, I’ve decided to share that here. I was going to post my thoughts [...]
I was looking at my bookshelf the other day and realized that this year was a fairly good reading year for me. So, I started trying to remember what I read and how I liked what I read. So, I’ve decided to share that here. I was going to post my thoughts [...]
I was looking at my bookshelf the other day and realized that this year was a fairly good reading year for me. So, I started trying to remember what I read and how I liked what I read. So, I’ve decided to share that here. I was going to post my thoughts [...]
I’ve not ever had someone else post on my blog before. But there is a first time for everything. Shanna Cummings is a member of The Well and we had some neat discussion around the topic of the presence of God. So, I asked her if she wanted to write something to [...]
This is my sermon manuscript from Sunday, December 10. I had the daunting task of preaching Exodus 35-40 this week. While the text looked to be a bore, it turned out to be a very, very fun text to study and preach. As always, this manuscript is only a glimpse of what [...]
Quote of the day from The Supremacy of Christ in a Postmodern World in the chapter by Tim Keller,
“In General I don’t think we’ve done a good job at developing ways of communicating the gospel that include both salvation from wrath by propitiation and restoration of all things.”
Yeah, I can get behind that! I [...]
I have a great friend, his name is Scott Hackman.
Scott is co-founder of One Village Coffee.
Scott is a free thinker.
Scott doesn’t fit in your box.
Scott wants to change the world (or at least help the people who are).
Scott is slightly crazy.
Scott has some great things to say.
Scott is a provocative writer.
Scott had [...]
Doing some work on looking ahead to 2008 as we seek to do our best to be a church that matters for the Kingdom.
In my reading I came across this Quote of the day,
“Developing a statement of purpose is not delivering effective mission; it is simply developing a statement of purpose…the scriptures [...]
My wife enjoys Christmas music. I’m not quite as nuts about it but I don’t mind it so much. The problem is that its the same thing over and over and over again every year. I want some new Christmas music!
Well, some guys from our worship band did me (and all [...]