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From the monthly archives:
January 2005
I have heard a few teachings I have heard from Ron Martoia, enjoyed his book, and have regularly visited his website. I know he left his church last summer, and apparently is making a go of it as a leadership consultant as far as I can tell. His new website, Vortex appears to be some [...]
U2 have announced their US tour dates. April 24 in Seattle…who’s in?
Spiritual maturity isn’t always easy to define. This past week, we were in San Diego at church planting training. While there, I became aware of the variety of definitions that seem to exist for spiritual maturity. I also realized that I think many of them fall short. Too often, we spiritual maturty simply as someone [...]
Being in an extended season of rest, this quote from Heaven is Not My Home seemed particularly relevant. I post it here for your benefit, and hoping that I won’t forget it when this season ends. Rest means letting the world pass us by for a time. Genuine rest requires acknowledging that God and our [...]
Since our family is on the move, we’ve started a new blog to help friends in family keep in touch with what is going on with us: ChandlerFamily.info
Though I haven’t found much discussion about this elsewhere, I think there is a pretty clear link between the so-called Creative Class and those who are thinking about new ways of being the church. For those of you interested in exploring this more, Richard Florida, who wrote The Rise of the Creative Class, has a [...]
I read Missional Church by Darrell Guder this past week. Lots of great thinking going on in this book. It’s mildly disjointed to read, because it has six different authors, but actually flows pretty well in light of that. Below are a few highlights from the book in italics, along with some of my own [...]
We are back from the cruise and happy to be on solid ground. That ship was a rockin’ and not just when we were celebrating ten years of marriage! Since I’m unemployed, I decided not to buy gifts for all of you. However, I do offer up the Rob Bell MP3s available here for all [...]
I’ve set all comments to be approved while we are away so the spammers don’t get the best of us. You can leave a comment, but it won’t appear until I return and approve it.
From the Gower Street interview with NT Wright: (part 7 of 6…figure that out!) Lots of the stuff is just a Christian version of the self-help section. I remember somebody sending me a bookstore catalog, I won’t say which publisher it was in America, a year or two ago, and after having flipped through it, [...]
Not much time to think, read, or post entries right now. This weekend, we finished moving out of our house into temporary quarters with a friend for the next few months. Tomorrow, we leave for a few weeks. The first week will be on a cruise celebrating our 10th anniversary (which was last summer), and [...]
These pictures leave me speechless.
If you watch my reading list at all, you saw this one up there for quite a while. I just finished it tonight. It’s a fascinating book about the origins and the make-up of the cosmos itself. It’s very well written and translated into laymen’s terms. Even so, I don’t recommend it unless you are [...]
