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Monday, August 23rd, 2010
I ran into this comment recently in a five-year-old paper by Richard Tiplady, European director of European Christian Mission and principal of International Christian College. He makes a valid observation, I think, about the changing landscape of the church in the 21st century.
If congregation was the normative model for the church in a modern era, [...]
Friday, June 25th, 2010
I guess I’m just feeling in the mood to squirm a little as I think about how we do church. Here’s yet another clip designed to make us Church types go, “Hmmmm….”
Wednesday, June 9th, 2010
Nervous laughter. A feeling of familiarity. Something about this piece that causes me to wonder what a gathering of the church ought to look like. A concert? College classroom? Funeral? Open house?
“Sunday’s Coming” Movie Trailer from North Point Media on Vimeo.
Wednesday, April 28th, 2010
I’ve been filling a pastoral and teaching role at a church in Vancouver, MacArthur Blvd. Christian Church for a few years now–still hangin’ with the house church tribe, but enjoy the relationships at Mac, too. The excitement in a church like this is in moving forward into new seasons while honoring the faithfulness of what’s [...]
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 [...]
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