Reading this post by JR Woodword got me thinking. We are studying through the book of Acts together as a community. We’re in chapter 4 this week so we’re still fairly early on in the narrative. If you’ve read or studied the book of Acts you know that it is addressed to “Theophilus.” [...]
This past weekend I preached from Acts 2:41-47. This is a passage that really has shaped our community significantly early on and it was exciting to look at it again a number of years later. One of the blessings of preaching from this text was that I didn’t feel like I needed to [...]
I am sicker than a dog, so this will be short. But my sermon from last week is up on our church’s website here. Except for a few others, I haven’t enjoyed preaching a text much more than I did this one.
I’ve been studying Acts 2:42-47 for the past week. I’m realizing that I could preach this passage 20 weeks straight and wouldn’t run out of material. So, I am trying to narrow my sermon down to the thing that I think is most pertinent for our specific community. While this likely won’t [...]
We took some Christmas money and gift cards to IKEA this weekend and got two of these shelves (at half off!). Cole and I then spent the next 1 hour and a half putting one together. I put the second together in about 25 minutes. I had more fun with the first. [...]
I am curious about a question here. In your church context, wherever it is, what does it mean to “get involved.”
I’m not talking about a general response, but what are the actual perceived (or real) expectations for you as a member of your church.
Would love to hear some feedback from a [...]
“Rescue me from the person who tells me about life and omits Christ, who is wise in the ways of the world and ignores the movement of the Spirit.”
- Eugene Peterson in
The following quote from the book, The New Rules of Marketing and PR by David Meerman Scott that I am reading for my design work has got my creative, brainstorming juices flowing in relation to church websites.
Here is the quote:
“Website content too often simple describes what an organization or product does from an egotistical [...]
The hair is gone. It had a good run, but I couldn’t last.
Fact is, I am pretty much going bald. There is no way to get around it. OK, I might not be going bald but I sure am thinning!
I am not sure if I’ll ever grow my hair out again. Maybe [...]
This is my summary of Acts 1:1-11 for tomorrow’s sermon:
God has called us, in the power and direction of the Spirit, following in the footsteps of the apostles, to be a community that serves as a touchpoint between heaven and earth.
“We read [scripture], naturally, as part of our real history, secular history, the history of which we are a part. What other history is there? There are not different histories, but there are different ways of understanding history…it is clearly an illusion to imagine that there are two kinds of history - sacred and [...]
“It should not bother us that [during different epochs] the Christian faith was perceived and experienced in new and different ways. The Christian faith is intrinsically incarnational; therefore unless the church chooses to remain a foreign entity, it will always enter into the context in which it happens to find itself.”
David Bosch in Transforming [...]
I recently blogged through a series on all the books I read in 2007. Over the last few days I have found a number that I didn’t put in the list. So, I’m adding them below.
First, if you missed the other sections here is what I posted on so far:
Missional [...]
“In confession the break-through to community takes place. Sin demands to have a man by himself. It withdraws him from the community. The more isolated a person is, the more destructive will be the power of sin over him, and the more deeply he becomes involved in it, the more disastrous is [...]