February 2005

Donald Miller preached a message called “Selflessness” this weekend at his home church. The MP3 is already available.

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A good friend of mine is doing some studying for the young adult/college ministry he is developing at his church, so he asked me for some book recommendations. I figured I would post them here for him. Feel free to add a comment if you have other suggestions…
Here’s some books, along with some comments about [...]

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I’ve added a few new things to the blog today:
1) There is a tagboard near the top of the righthand column. This will let you put a quick comment on the blog that might not relate to a specific entry. Thank goodness I don’t have the kind of friends who would use it to leave [...]

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Invisible Children
I really don’t know much of anything about this movie except that Dave mentioned it a few weeks ago and it looks interesting. There is a screening on Monday at ASU for those of you in the valley. Check out the trailer.
Here is some more about it from Demand Media:
Invisible Children is a film [...]

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The rock formation above is known as the Areopagus (Mars Hill). In ancient Athens, it was a gathering place for philosophers to debate all the latest ideas.
It was to this gathering of philosphers that Paul was invited in Acts 17:16-33. Some of them had heard him speak in the marketplace, and wanted to bring him [...]

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I have renamed this site: SomeStrangeIdeas.com. I will explain what the new name in a forthcoming post. I still have the subvergence.org domain and the web address and email address will automatically forward to the new addresses.

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When I first saw that there was a book called Postmodern Children’s Ministry, I rolled my eyes. It seemed to me that we were now taking the concept of postmodern and turning into another Christian brand (ie Purpose-Driven). I feared that soon we would have book titles about everything with Postmodern in front of it, [...]

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This month’s issue of Fast Company has a short, but good article, from Marcus Buckingham. It is based on his new book, The One Thing You Need to Know. I really liked his first and second book, so I’m looking forward to this one as well. It’s worth picking up the magazine to read this [...]

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Justin, a good friend of mine, has recently started a blog called Trying Not to Sell Out. He will have some thoughtful and challenging posts, and it’s one I think will be worth adding to your blogroll. I did.

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I couldn’t hold out any longer , and I upgraded to WordPress 1.5. That also means I’ve got a new look. I’m not sure how long it will last because there are a few things laying out funny, but it seems to function at least. If you run into problems with how it is [...]

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Being in a major life transition, I see this as a good time to create some healthy new patterns of how I go about some things. I’m not actually that unhappy with how I organize my productivity, but I do know I could sharpen it, which motivated me to read Getting Things Done, by David [...]

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WordPress 1.5 is now available. I really want to upgrade, but this template isn’t available, and I really like the look of the site right now. That’s what you call blog vanity.
I’ll try to hold on for a few days and see what new themes are released…or maybe I’ll actually try to figure how to [...]

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I moved the site over to a QuikBlogs server today. Please let me know if you have any troubles with anything.

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We were given a copy of Mark Driscoll’s book, The Radical Reformission at the Acts 29 Boot Camp. I read it on the plane on the way home. Driscoll can usually rile people up with some strong statements, but he has some good things to say. If nothing else, it is worth reading the chapter [...]

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