Archives for 2004

I just returned from a day at the cabin by the lake that I sometimes go to when I need to get away. I spent time fleshing out my calendar for the next few months, preparing for an upcoming trip to Siberia, and reading Lee Camp’s Mere Discipleship: Radical Christianity in a Rebellious World. It’s […]

Here’s Garrison Keillor’s response to a question about multimedia in church. Found via Darryl Dash Dear Garrison,As a Methodist to a Lutheran, I have a pressing question. I work in church communications and one of the things I’m helping folks do is the incorporation of multimedia and digital storytelling into their worship services. Mass communication […]

A friend passed on an ad she found in The New York Times. Here is how it reads: Causeless Love and Limitless Joy Sandra and Daniel Biskind received the gift of enlightenment and healing, and the ability to transfer this energy . . . This transformation begins a process that permanently changes your consciousness. receive […]

The meeting ended on a productive note. I think there will be some events in the next couple of years that have the potential to gather folks from both tribes together for worship, repentance, and fellowship. Hopefully, the long range outcome will not just be a few big events, but cooperation between our two tribes […]

I’m in Ft. Worth attending a meeting of leaders from the Christian Churches and Churches of Christ. We’re exploring ways for our two tribes to express some visible, meaningful signs of unity. My ticket to such a meeting is that I’m directing the 2006 Tulsa Workshop. We’re hoping that we can do something at the […]

After the assembly on Sunday, we took off for Eureka Springs, Arkansas. It was my first foray into a state that has supplied me with many sermon-worthy jokes. We found the Ozarks to be beautiful and Eureka Springs to be a nice place to go to get away for a day or two. I’m sure […]

Yesterday I posted some recent thoughts from Alan Roxburgh. Here is something he said twelve years ago. Via onehouse We need a movement of God’s people into neighborhoods, to live out and be the new future of Christ. It must be a movement that demonstrates how the people of God have a vision and the […]

Powerful words from Alan Roxburgh via PoMoMuSiNgS If we want to discern the emergent work of God, weve got to ask, Where are the most God-forsaken places today? Let me suggest to you, one of the most God-forsaken place for us, is the local congregation. Why? They dont get it. They dont understand any of […]

I had an interesting lunchtime conversation with a friend about “The DaVinci Code.” We were kicking around the idea of Jesus being married. Now I know that in the Bible there is no evidence that Jesus was married, but what if he was? What do we lose as followers of Christ if Jesus was married? […]

If becoming a part of our church places people in an environment that encourages them to live more frenetic lives than they were living before, then we are going about doing church the wrong way.