April 2005

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I started the application process with Mars Hill Graduate School this past week to pursue a Master of Divinity. I’ve looked a Mars Hill a few times in the past, but being up here, we discovered it’s less than half an hour away from where we will likely be planting the church. (Although I wouldn’t [...]

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A quote from Wolfgang Simpson (Houses That Change the World, pg 229) for Dean and I to ponder as we move forward in the church planting journey:
He {Vincent Donovan, a missionary to the Masai tribe} sums up his experience in two lessons. The first was that if you preach the church, the response will look [...]

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I got an email from a friend a few days ago about Mail Order Chickens. As best as I can tell, it’s a satirical site from Christian Aid/Pressureworks to draw attention to injustice in Ghana. Visit the site and begin the adoption process to get to the point of it. It might be too clever [...]

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Through a post today on Flickr’s blog I was introduced to Kids With Cameras. Their mission statement reads as follows:

Kids with Cameras is a non-profit organization that teaches the art of photography to marginalized children in communities around the world. We use photography to capture the imaginations of children, to empower them, building confidence, [...]

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I found this statement from Inspire! What Great Leaders Do interesting:
When we ask leaders to define leadership, and then ask their employees the same question, the difference in their answers is astonishing. It is the difference between the elite and the street. Leaders will tell you that the hallmarks of great leadership include having a [...]

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The first week or so of life without Tivo was somewhat traumatic as I missed a few episodes of 24 and Alias. Thanks to BitTorrent, I’m now all caught up on 24 (without commercials!), with a few episodes of Alias waiting for me.
Most traumatic was last night, when the people whose house we are [...]

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As I hoped, Inspire! What Great Leaders Do has been a very good read. There were many thoughts I marked for ongoing thinking, and I will likely post several on the blog, but in different entries, because I think each is worth separate consideration.
One of the initial thoughts he writes about in the first chapter [...]

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The Catalyst Conference rolled out their website for the 2005 conference recently. I’ve always wanted to go to this conference, but it’s never worked out for me, and this year will very likely be no different with the church targeted to launch the following weekend. If it’s a possibility for you, I’d recommend it. I’ve [...]

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People often think of Christian morality as a kind of bargain in which God says, ‘If you keep a lot of rules I’ll reward you, and if you don’t I’ll do the other thing.’ I do not think that is the best way of looking at it. I would much rather say that every time [...]

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The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled. - Plutarch
I am enamored with the concept behind this quote. Now more than ever, in the information age we live in, it is commonly concluded that the chief role of the human brain is to remember and store all that [...]

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We are leaving for Washington in the morning, so I’m not sure I’ll have a chance to post anything of any substance over the next week or so. I will be posting progress on our journey over at the family blog, so feel free to follow along there.

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