Um. I get it, but it just seems wrong…like attempting to achieve 'community' in solitude. But for the Fight Club Airlines fan, it's finally here:
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Single-Serving Communion?
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10 Things Every Worship Leader Wishes Their Sound Person Knew
Ministry is foremost about people and relationships.
As a worship leader and amateur sound guy I realize there can be areas of tension between the stage and the booth. Between 'us' and 'them'. But the goal of the worship leader and the sound person should be identical: to provide as few distractions for the worshipper as [...] -
Biting Off More Than..
Re-evaluation and change is something I applaud. More quickly in others than myself perhaps… But as 2010 begins, I've resolved to the following commitments. I hope you'll join me.
First, I've committed to calling it 'twenty-ten' or 'two-thousand ten'. But never anything 'oh-ten'. I'm pretty certain we won't refer to 2026 as 'oh-twenty-six', so give up [...] -
BEAR One Another’s Burdens
As I’m writing this (from my iPhone!) we are loading up for our student ministry’s annual winte retreat to Lake Brownwood. Our theme this year is from Galatians 6: ‘bear each other’s burdens’.
This year, students from our sister church, New Life Baptist, will be joining us as we explore the Scriptures and worship together. [...] -
YouTube Friday: Bubble Creek Canyon
I have no words for this one. Except that I'm afraid someone in the Christian community might actually think this is a good idea. Is this our idea of Christian culture?
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Swimming in the Shallow End
Sometimes we completely miss it.
At our neighborhood amenity center, we have two pools: the deep, lap pool where the teenagers hang out and old guys do laps, and the shallow, zero-entry pool where the younger (and less serious swimmers) play and parents snooze. On our first visit, the smaller pool was overpopulated with preschoolers and [...]
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Panhandling Faith
If you follow me on Twitter, you know that a funny thing happened on the way to the guitar shop yesterday.
I was driving in south Austin on my lunch break when my fuel light came on. I noticed an old 7-Eleven about a block off of South Lamar and whipped in to get gas. Within [...]
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Tell Stories
“If the God you believe in as an idea doesn’t start showing up in what happens to you in your own life, you have as much cause for concern as if the God you don’t believe in as an idea does start showing up.It is absolutely crucial, therefore, to keep in constant touch with what [...]
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Our Story: James
While we are busy catching up after a week of Spring Break, sit back and enjoy a great video.
This week’s edition of Our Story features James, a great student in our ministry, who shares his struggles and experiences of vandalism, suicide, and redemption.
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Quotable Monday: 02.02.2009
"I love the fact that the ’sinful woman’ in that story is unnamed. That means I can put my own name in there…"
-pregnant HS senior girl at our retreat last weekend,
commenting on the woman mentioned in Luke 7:36-50.
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