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Archive of "Suburbia" Category
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What Story Are You Living? Reflections on Don Miller’s Book “A Million Miles in a Thousand Years”
Like many others, I read Donald Miller’s book, “Blue Like Jazz” in about three sittings. That’s not only cause it’s an easy read, but mostly because he’s a great …
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On Being Sub-Contextual
Sub-contextual. I am pretty sure I just made that word up. I may have stolen it from someone smarter, but I don’t remember doing so, so I am claiming it as my own.
But, I think that’s the best …
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The Suburban Mob: A Year Later
It has been exactly a year since I put some of the most significant lessons that God had taught me in the last few years to words.
It was called, “Are You Rioting with the Suburban Mob.”
I’ve been reflecting on …
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Revolutionary Road & Suburbia
Last night my wife and I watched the movie Revolutionary Road. I really didn’t know much about it other than it was a critique on suburbia. Wow, this is a movie that one needs to sit with for a while. …
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The Next Steps for The Well
May 12, 2009
Dear Church Family,
During our worship gathering on Sunday we took a break from our regular sermon series in order to look back at the early dreams and passions of The Well and to celebrate how God …
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Bored in Suburbia?
Today Dave Gibbons wrote a post on the topic of Suburbia. He’s a great voice for this kind of stuff and in his post he addresses something that I’ve been thinking about a lot lately. Boredom in …
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Rethinking the Evils of Suburbia
Mustard Seed Associates invited me to write an article around the topic of Suburbia and the Missional church. Over the last few months I have started to realize that I needed to take a more positive approach to this …
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Mustard Seed Associates Sampler on Suburban Missional Church
Mustard Seed Associates just published a series of excellent resources in their April 2009 “Seed Sampler” on the topics of the Suburban and the Rural Missional Church. This is an excellent collection of articles around these two topics. …
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The Strengths of Suburbia? My #theideacamp session…
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. …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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Resident Aliens in Suburbia
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Talking About Money in the Church (Part 3)
Over the last few weeks I’ve been writing a bit on how I have been talking through 2 Corinthians 8 with our community during our offering time. (You can read the others posts here) The last two time we …
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The Consumerism Mob
I’ve written in the past about things people will do when they are part of mobs that htey would never do while they were alone. Like, say “stomp a defenseless 34-year-old man to death, even for a free TV.” …
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Book Recommendation: Linking Arms, Linking Lives
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Super Christians? Nope, Just Normally Obedient.
We’ve spent the last couple days hanging out with Tim and Jenn Fidanzo who are from Portland, …
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Wasteful Spending?
Dorie Morgan, who I am proud to call a member of our church community has written a wonderful little reflection on spending in suburbia and reminds me of how we need to continually think carefully about our way of …
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Resources on Suburbia
Today I spoke at Biblical Seminary for the installation of John R. Franke as the Lester and Kay Clemens Professor of Missional Theology. Gary and I will be discussing the challenges and opportunities the church faces in the Suburbs.
In …
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Bowling for Mediocrity
I have never really liked bowling. Well, I guess I have only kind of liked it. It’s always been one of those things that constantly makes me want quit. I can’t tell you how many times I leave one or …
