This afternoon I am facilitating a discussion at The Idea Camp around the topic of suburbia and them missional. Now, this is a topic that I have written about a lot and spoke about a few times as well. My most significant contribution to those of us that are talking about this topic is the paper I wrote during a seminary class. In that paper you’ll find a fair amount of my thoughts on the challenges that we are faced with as we seek to be faithful churches in a suburban context. In our discussion today however, I am trying to take a new approach to the issue and come at it from a different angle. While I think there is value in looking at...Read More →
Archive for February, 2009
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February 27, 2009
The Strengths of Suburbia? My #theideacamp session…
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February 19, 2009
Headed to IdeaCamp / Kairos Church in LA
My wife and I are deep in the midst of a move to a new apartment so I am really looking forward to next week where we’ll get out of here and spend a couple of days in Los Angeles from Feb 25 – March 2. We are headed out there mainly for an conference called IdeaCamp which is a really cool looking unconference kind of conference. Here is a short description: The Idea Camp is a FREE, open source hybrid conference designed to help people move from the realm of ideas to implementation…We are gathering some of the most innovative and creative leaders from around the country (this means YOU!) to share ideas, intentionally network, and move collaboratively into idea-making…the focus of this conference...Read More →
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February 16, 2009
Generosity and Fear
We are living in a time where fear and despair are the overwhelming attitudes. Whether we’re talking about our personal financial situations or our national financial situation or our world’s financial situation these attitudes are prevalent. Fear. Despair. But as those who profess faith and resurrection, we can’t succumb to fear. We can’t ignore the problems of the world, but we can’t let fear be our master. We are not people of fear. We are not people of despair. We are not a people of obligation. Fear leads to selfishness. Despair leads to self-preservation. Obligation leads to legalism. We are people of hope. Hope that comes from grace. Hope that comes from resurrection. Hope leads to freedom. Freedom leads to Generosity. Let us be a...Read More →
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February 12, 2009
links for 2009-02-12
Seth's Blog: The power of an algorithm good stuff as usual from Seth Godin (tags: leadership)
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February 11, 2009
Limitations
I turned 32 today. Not sure what to think about that. But I can confess that one begins to think more intentionally about life the older one gets. Of course, its not like I am old. There are plenty of you reading this who are much older than me! Recently, I read a post from Bob Hyatt where he noted the following quote. “There is something deeply spiritual about honoring the limitations of our lives and the boundaries of what God has given us to do as leaders. Narcissistic leaders are always looking beyond their sphere of influence with visions of grandiosity far out of proportion to what is actually being given. Living within our limits means living within the finiteness of who we are...Read More →
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February 11, 2009
links for 2009-02-11
Navigation Matrix Reloaded @ Dan Rubin’s SuperfluousBanter This is a great resource for geeks like me. (tags: design css navigation)
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February 2, 2009
The Rule of Benedict and the Suburban Christian
In my recent post on “The Mob” I tried to bring out the idea that we need to always be aware and thinking thinking critically about our way of life. We need to constantly be allowing God, mostly through the scriptures and through prayer, reorient and reconvert our way of life. I believe this is especially true for those of us who live in Suburban America. We live extremely individualized, consumerized, busy and disconnected lives (just to name a few). Without paying attention to our way of life, we’ll more than likely just go about our culture’s default life without even realizing it. With this in mind, I’ve been reading around the topic of the Rule of St. Benedict. I’m curious about the connection between...Read More →
