Rethinking The Church & Its Relationship to the Community

Nana Thoughts

2008-07-04T17:09:36Z

I just have to brag a little this morning about my three oldest grandsons. David, age 12 is an awesome swimmer and yesterday he agreed to teach me to swim better. He is going to be an great personal trainer, and if he can teach me, he can teach a...

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Thoughts On Blogging

2008-07-02T17:15:46Z

I have been looking through my personal journal over the past few months, since I have entered the world of blogging. Certainly it has been a blessing, far beyond anything I expected, and it has also been a challenge as I have intera...

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Christian mission and my story

2008-06-30T00:37:33Z

Two weeks ago I spoke at a conference for Christian artists (kind of ...). I spoke about my journey in learning about what/who we are to be as the church and a few insights I've come to. It's a little bit disjointed, but I thought I'd share it h...

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the truth about cain and abel

2008-06-27T21:02:12Z

Both men, you’ll remember, offer sacrifices to God. Cain’s is an offering of crops, whereas Abel offers a blood sacrifice. God likes Abel’s offering but rejects Cain’s. Cain, angry, kills Abel. Taken as a simple historical narrative, the st...

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lunchbreak musings: seekers' solidarity

2008-06-26T11:40:04Z

All this online pugilism between Christians of different stripes! All these forum fencing-matches about free will and predestination and law and grace and evolution and intelligent design and miracles! All these arguments that might never have...

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"The Investment"

2008-06-24T17:42:25Z

"In his poem 'The Investment,' Robert Frost sketches a quaint scene of people trying to escape the reality of the hardscrabble life of potato farming. Depending on which way you look at the poem, it is either a testament to human folly or a triump...

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Wells and Fences

2008-06-20T20:34:59Z

"It is important ... to distinguish between centered sets and bounded sets .... The attractional church is a bounded set. That is, it is a set of people clearly marked off from those who do not belong to it. Churches thus mark themselves in a v...

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Wheat and Weeds

2008-06-19T20:21:50Z

This is something I wrote for my wife's blog. I decided to go ahead and post it here, too. **************************************** Jesus told them another parable: "The kingdom of heaven is like a man who sowed good seed in his field. But whil...

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a visit to my old neighborhood

2008-06-17T20:32:45Z

Fellow Nick Drake fan Scott Small over on Not In Me has been so kind (or imprudent) as to let me post some reflections on heaven and suburbia on his upliftingly lovely blog There's Treasure Everywhere. If you're feeling whimsical please do pop ...

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A Good Morning?

2008-06-17T02:57:51Z

I woke up early today to drop by and borrow a pick-up. God, i hate mornings. The mother of all oxymorons: "good morning." The Wife and i went and cleared out a load of furniture and cleared out 2/3 of our stuff from our landlord's garage. In betw...

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