A Lot of Lattés – Books & Culture Ron Sider, a fav of mine, reviews the book "Passing the Plate" which looks like a really , really good book. (tags: leadership books)
Archive for January, 2009
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January 31, 2009
links for 2009-01-31
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January 29, 2009
Paying Attention to What’s in Front of Me
Those of you who visit my blog daily, whoever you are, may have noticed that I’m not posting as much as I had been recently. That’s on purpose. I’m doing my best to pay attention to the things that are right in front of me and not spread myself too thin. I often, with the best of intentions, tend to get way too many sticks in the fire and then it gets hard for me to manage them. So, I’m focusing these days on being faithful to what’s in front of me while still looking intentionally at the future. That means I’ve got to say “no” or “not now” to some things that I really want to say yes to. For now, my blog is...Read More →
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January 28, 2009
links for 2009-01-28
bob.blog: Limitations Great post by Bob Hyatt (tags: ministry leadership) Interview with N.T. Wright – Responding to Piper on Justification « Kingdom People (tags: ntwright piper theology)
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January 26, 2009
The Mob.
Who do you get when you take a poor person in a slum in Ndola Zambia and give them… a house, a fenced in back yard, a two car garage, cable television with a DVR, two cars for that garage, and a job that pays me well but makes me work 50+ hours a week? You get a person who has just lost all they had going for them: Community and relationships. Sure. They had nothing. But you’ve just replaced nothing with nothing. That’s not much of an improvement if you ask me. Mobs do things that individuals would never do on their own. Individuals in mobs do things that that don’t make much rational sense. Individuals in mobs climb live electric poles and flip...Read More →
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January 15, 2009
ReJesus by Alan Hirsch & Michael Frost
I just finished reading ReJesus by Alan Hirsch and Michael Frost (doesn’t Michael have a blog?!). Overall it was a really good read that I really enjoyed. It was a great call for the Church/christians to actually act like Jesus. They do good job of showing that if we really were to “act like Jesus” a lot of things would have to change. One of my favorite quotes they used was one that my friend Chris Marlow used as well in his excellent blog post this morning. They write, The process of reJesusing the church will begin with a rediscovery of the fierce and outrageous life of Jesus. Too many people have become turned off to the church because the object of our...Read More →
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January 12, 2009
Finished Reading: Resident Aliens & The Tangible Kindgom
One of the things I have been trying to do more of in the evenings is read more. I can all too easily slip into the: put the kids to bed -> turn on the TV -> Turn on the computer routine. Next thing I know its 11:30 and I’ve wasted the evening watching bad television and aimlessly surfing the web and refreshing twitter like a helpless addict (not that I am addicted, I can stop whenever I want). While some nights I do need to just veg in front of the TV and hang out with my wife, I’d rather make that the exception rather than the rule. So far I’ve done well and, i’ll be honest, it feels really good to get some into...Read More →
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January 4, 2009
Thinking about 2009 – A More Disciplined Life
I’ve been processing things like resolutions and goals more than ever this year. I’ve been thinking through a lot of different things but the one I keep coming back to is my need for a more disciplined work week. It’s not that I am totally undisciplined. I mean, if I were there is no way I could run my own freelance design business and pastor at The Well. But there is a need for me to have more boundaries and guides so that I can be faithful to my responsibilities. I currently love my lifestyle. I am mostly my own boss. Each day I wake up and can choose what I want to work on (at least, mostly) where I want to work on it. ...Read More →
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January 3, 2009
The Task of the Church
From Karl Barth’s Church Dogmatics v.4.3.2 – The Doctrine of Reconciliation To sum up, we may say there is committed to it the gospel, I.e. The good, glad tidings of Jesus Christ, of the real act and true revelation of the goodness in which God has willed to make and has in fact made Himself the God of man and man His man. This great Yes is its cause. It has no other task besides this. (page 800)
