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Archive for March, 2008
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The Chop
My beautiful wife went away for a “girls weekend” recently and came back looking a tad different. I’ve gotta be honest… I love it! She has had longer hair for as …
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The Church & Suburbia Seminar with Al Hsu
I know this is early, but with vacations in the summer, I’m trying to get the word our early.
So here it goes…On August 8-9, 2008, my church The Well, in partnership with the Ecclesia Network and …
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Friday Links – 3/29/08
I’m starting a new Friday tradition on my blog. I do a lot of persuing of the internet and come across posts and information that I think is worth sharing. So, during the week I’ll be collecting some …
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Does Your Church Really Need Jesus?
I’ve been reading Organic Church by Neil Cole. I’ll admit that when I saw the cover I wasn’t too excited to read the book. The coffee cup just kinda turned …
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My Four Year Old Jesus Freak
We were rocking out to old school DC Talk in our house tonight….
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Christian Contrairians
“The stickler is that Christianity doesn’t make a very good religion in this sense. Christianity is not a faith of conservation and preservation. It is a faith of creation, participation, movement, and change. For conservation to happen, something needs to …
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Good Friday Service
We don’t do the massive amounts of candles thing at The Well very often but Good Friday seems like a pretty good reason to have a somber atmosphere.
This service was awesome as I …
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NT Wright on Preaching the Resurrection
“So many people think preaching the Resurrection means doing a little bit of apologetics in the pulpit to prove it really is true. Others simply say, “Jesus is raised, therefore there is a life after death.” This isn’t the point! …
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Easter at The Well
Easter Weekend at The Well is fast becoming one of my favorite weekends of the year. Not only do we get to remember and celebrate Jesus’ death, burial and resurrection but we get …
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Pastoring Like It’s 1989…kind of
For the last two days I’ve been with out a computer. My MacBook Pro is on a little vacation for some R&R. Okay, it actually had a bunch of problems all at once and I finally broke down …
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My Moleskines
I was inspired by Joe Thorn, another suburban pastor, to share with you all (whoever you are) how I use my Moleskines. If you have one, you know why … -
Environmentalists in the Church
No, not those kind of environmentalists. Not the ones who talk about caring for the earth. I’m all for that. But, I’m referring to leaders who create environments that give room for people to change as Joe …
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Death by Meeting: Why meetings suck (the life out of you)
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Life Together Quote
“It is not simply to be taken for granted that the Christian has the privilege of living among other Christians.”
Dietrich Bonhoffer in Life Together
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Privatizing the Faith
“The community that confesses that Jesus is Lord has been, from the very beginning, a movement launched into the public life of mankind. The Greco-Roman world in which the New Testament was written was full of societies offering to those …
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Subtle Site Changes
If you are paying attention, you’ll notice that I’ve made some changes to the copy on my site. I’ve edited the subtitles to the major sections and edited and added some quotes to the top bar. I’m not sure …
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Don’t
JudgeDraw Final Conclusions On A Church Based on One VisitFor whatever reason, we have a lot of people who visit our community on Sunday mornings. This is all fine and dandy. But, a thought occurred to me recently. I often want to tell those visitors that you …
