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Blog Silence - New Website
I have been silent on my blog for a bit. It’s for good reason. I have been working like crazy to get a new version of our church’s website up. This is the first site that i have really done myself from the ground up (with a help here or there from my good friends Jim and Matt.
Here is the link: The Well’s New Website
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What is church???
Church is more than a Sunday morning…Today during church we talked about what it means to be an authentic community. Here are some of the responses that we shared during our discussion time…
- worshipping together
- “being there” for each other
- not having our lives be “fully booked” and no room for each other
- having a “Soul friend”
- actually listening to each other
- a willingness to be vaunerable
- be willing to accept charity
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Suffering Has a Face….
I am speechless as I read the following e-mail (and others Katie has written before it). I think that through this e-mail describing Katie’s experiences… in some small, minute and miniscule way, suffering has begun to take the shape of a face. I know that unless I experience Katie’s experiences I will never understand. I can not even begin to understand what it would be like to hold the hand of a woman who was being treated for maggots in an open wound. This is too far beyond my own reality. So for me, this kind of suffering does not necessarily have a face…but it might just have the outline of the possibility of a face…and that is more than it once was…I have a hard time even asking God to allow me to understand this reality. For one, I know that here in America I really can’t. Two, I don’t know that genuinely do I want to understand it, for to understand it I would have to experience it….just being honest…
The following e-mail comes from our friend Katie Nolan who is serving in Calucutta among the poorest of the poor…I strongly encourage you to read this e-mail…if you don’t feel something…well, you will….
She writes…
“I will always remember today. Hell was unleashed at Kalighat. I emerged from it changed. It changed God in my eyes. Today suffering took on a face for me.
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Converstions with Cole…
We just posted a new video of Cole on our .mac website. Definately worth taking a look…
http://homepage.mac.com/thiestand/iMovieTheater19.html
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Cole…
Cole did the coolest thing today…we spent a few hours together while Melanie was working. Of course I took the time to introduce him to computers and websites. It was a good education time for him and I know he learned alot (for a 4 month old!).
In the midst of it, he started getting really fussy…that was until I would play some of the video we shot of him last night. No matter how …
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Exodus 32…
We had a neat discussion in our small group on prayer and Exodus 32 tonight. Being someone who considers themselves someone who belives very strongly in the soverignty of God, this chapter of scripture poses some interesting questions. It would be so easy to explain this away like I am so tempted to do, but a straight (dare i say “literal”) reading of this text is pretty hard to get around. It really can make for some messy …
Apparently I am now friends with myself on facebook. I live in Canada too eh.