Archive for May, 2008
Monday, May 12th, 2008
Quotable Monday, 05.12.2008
"We are becoming who we will be forever."
Dallas Willard, from The Divine Conspiracy
Willard is urging us to see our lives, not as 24 hour short stories, but as novels, where each event has an affect on every other event and in turn has an affect on who we are and who we are becoming. [...]
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Monday, May 12th, 2008
Breathe Deep Recap
The annual Breathe Deep conference in Kemah was great this year. At least for Heather and I. We got to hang out and talk guitars and worship with the sparky David Gentiles. I admit, I’m still jealous over his redwood MacPherson 3.5 acoustic guitar. And he’s a great guy as well.
Lance Crowell did an [...]
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Thursday, May 8th, 2008
Text and Context
Over at TheResurgence, the audio and video is up from Seattle’s Text and Context conference. So far, I’ve only been able to watch Matt Chandler’s session titled "Preaching The Gospel From The Center of the Evangelical World". WELL worth the time.
As Chandler talks about the effects of pluralism in ministry as we deal with Evangelicals [...]
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Wednesday, May 7th, 2008
Announcement!!!
For all of you locals:
This Sunday, May 11, we’ll have a couple of special guests at our 10:30 a.m. student ministry time: Glyn Milburn and Robert Jones.
Milburn is a two-time All American running back, wide receiver and kick returner. He graduated from the University of Stanford and spent 10 years in the NFL, playing [...]
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Wednesday, May 7th, 2008
Professor Satchafunkilius and the Musterion of Rock
Long time, and real-time guitar hero Joe Satriani has a new CD out which is blowing me away. One of the things I’ve always loved about Satch is his music is both ‘listenable’ and inspiring. He’s not nearly as technical as Steve Vai or Yngwie, but more beautiful and melodic. And did I mention inspiring? [...]
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Tuesday, May 6th, 2008
Why Aren’t Christians Like Jesus?
iMonk has a great post titled "The Jesus-shaped Question: Are Christians Like Jesus?". After reading and reflecting on Philippians 3:7-8, he has some great thoughts which may be offensive to some. Something that leaped out at me this morning is this:
Christians are conservatives and liberals.
Christians are culture warriors and advocates of family values.
Christians are [...]
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Monday, May 5th, 2008
Someone To Give You The Finger (for Jesus)
I ordered it a month ago from Amazon. It came (woo-hoo!) but the demands of ministry have been such that I just now have the time to devote to it. I could speed-read it through and move on…but I’m trying hard at slowing down these days.
Len Sweet’s latest book titled “11: Indispensible Relationships You [...]
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Monday, May 5th, 2008
Quotable Monday, 04.05.2008
‘Never rely on the glory of the morning, nor the smiles of your mother-in-law.’
-Japanese proverb