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Archive for December, 2007
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One More Time Devin Hester
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 …
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The Gospel
“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.”
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Construction
in progressdone.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 … -
Ecclesia National Gathering
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Welcome Little Child
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 …
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Books of 2007: Business / Fiction Books
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. …
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A Christmas Benediction
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,
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Books of 2007: Pastoral Leadership
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. …
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Anybody got a van?
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 …
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Last Minute Gift Giving
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 …
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Welcome
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 …
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Books of 2007: Church Leadership
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. …
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Books of 2007: General Theology
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. …
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Books of 2007: Missional Theology
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. …
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Guest Blogger: God is Here
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 …
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God is Here. Let it Rock Your World.
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 …
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Individual Salvation and Restoration of all Things
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 …
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Merry Christmas Scott
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 …
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Mission Statements are just mission statements
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 …
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New Christmas Music?
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 …
