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Monday, November 30th, 2009
I took the video clip in my last post from a site called Recycle Your Faith which bills itself as a place to find “weekly videos for spiritual explorers.”
Intriguing…I’ll start following that site.
This fellow, Chad Estes, the guy on the clip, is from Boise. Apparently, he’s a former pastor of a fairly large congregation, but [...]
Saturday, November 28th, 2009
Church Alumni from Recycle Your Faith on Vimeo.
Monday, November 2nd, 2009
Since Jody and I lost our insurance a few months ago we joined a medical cost sharing group. These organizations are set up so that Christians can share one another’s medical expenses rather than rely on insurance. We’ve been participating in one called “Samaritan Ministries” through which, every month, we receive the name of somebody [...]
Friday, October 30th, 2009
when cyberspace meets face2face
Does this ever happen to you? You get this cool idea and you tell somebody about it and they just look at you like you were a chicken that just laid a square egg. And then they say something like, “that’s nice” or, “cool,” and then they go with some other subject [...]
Monday, June 29th, 2009
“How glorious the splendor of a human heart that trusts that it is loved!”
~Brennan Manning
I was a little concerned the other night as the people started arriving at our house. We had agreed to host a friend of mine for a casual, open house gathering and it was clear that not all who were coming [...]
Friday, May 29th, 2009
The real person hidden beneath the mask fears the rejection that might come if the mask of personality was removed. Our mask is accepted because everyone else is also wearing masks at the ball. A great deal of our life is spent in dancing and playing around each other’s subterfuges. Of course, a small amount [...]
Wednesday, May 13th, 2009
Frank Viola of Present Testimony Ministries has produced a nice little article about the qualities of a healthy church. He’s used the Lord’s retreat at Bethany as a framework. I recommend the article. Here’s the Link.
Friday, March 20th, 2009
I wrote the following as an article in a local paper several years ago.
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It’s a scene out of the old West—Wagon Train, Bonanza, Little House on the Prairie — the preacher in his black jacket and turnaround collar and clutching his little black book, stands by a man and woman and intones (seems like [...]
Saturday, March 14th, 2009
Here is the beginning of an article that appears in the Christian Science Monitor:
The coming evangelical collapse
An anti-Christian chapter in Western history is about to begin. But out of the ruins, a new vitality and integrity will rise.
By Michael Spencer from the March 10, 2009 edition
Oneida, Ky. - We are on the verge – within [...]
Sunday, October 12th, 2008
The beginning of a series with the primary purpose of contextualizing some of the “how to meet” scriptures in a locally established gathering of saints (LEGS), particularly MacArthur Blvd. Christian Church. Future teachings will focus on the church in close community.
Also, there is recognition of the contribution of Emily Yasson to the life of the [...]
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