Archive for September, 2008
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Church. Family. Grace. Belonging.
People like to use the metaphor “family” when it come to church.
I think this is one legitimate and valuable way of looking at church.
When people come to The Well they say they experience family.
I believe it’s …
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Embrace the Burbs. Or Get Out.
Ed Stetzer, who is a pretty good all around guy and solid thinker about the church and mission recently did an interview for the website called “The Subtext.”
I met Ed at an event in Philly and …
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Lesslie Newbigin on Election
Great stuff from my favorite author…
No one can say why it is that one was chosen and another not, why it is that here the word came “not only in word only, but also in power, and in the Holy …
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The 700 Billion dollar question.
Okay. So, I’m not so great with numbers. I failed 7th grade math. I can’t even fathom $700,000,000,000. But, from what I hear, that’s like 2,000 apple pies from McDonalds for each American.
That’s a lot of …
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Pastors and Devotions.
I am sitting here doing some study / preliminary work on my sermon for this weekend. We’ve starting the book of Ephesians and I’m taking in Ephesians 1:3-10. Its a quite a full passage and I’m looking forward …
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Children, Families and Worship
This week at The Well we had a child / parent dedication. We do dedications in a pretty cool way and I’ll write about that this week, but I wanted to share something I wrote that outlines our overall …
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The Challenge of Community in Suburbia
Melanie and I were on a walk last night and we were talking for a bit about the challenge of being in community in our suburban environment. With all of our good intentions, its been hard to find a …
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New Front Page Layout
If you visit my site much you’ll notice that I have a new layout here on the front page. I am still getting to the sub-pages but I wanted to see how this worked out in reality before I …
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The Narrative of the Kingdom and Witness?
This past week we finished up our nine month journey through the book of Acts together at The Well. I had the privileged of preaching and summarizing the whole thing up this weekend.
Part of my sermon was on how challenging …
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Speaking about Missional in Suburbia at Biblical Seminary with Some Really Smart People
Biblical Seminary is hosting a pretty great event on Oct 10. They are installing my friend and professor John Franke as the “Lester and Kay Clemens Professor of Missional Theology.” I am not sure what that really even …
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Burn Out? Or Are You Just Tired?
A pastor friend and I were recently talking about burn out. Both of us have been running on fumes lately. Usually that’s when you start wondering if you are burnt out. As we were talking I think …
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Politics and Preaching
This is really the first election year that I’ve spent a lot of time listening to the speeches and debates from the two main Presidential candidates. Usually, the only campaigning that I let into my system are the television commercials …
