I’m amazed at the conversations that spring out of the questions of a three year old mind. Story time with Macey has become much more complex in the last few months. She is always analyzing the stories we read and asking lots of questions. Some of that is because she wants to delay bed time, [...]
From the monthly archives:
November 2005
Foldershare is a pretty cool little utility that let’s you share documents between computers or online. It sets up a private (hopefully!) peer to peer network that allows you to to share specific files or folders to share between your own computers. It can also be used to access files remotely or share documents with [...]
I ran across In Search of Paul, by John Dominic Crossan and Jonathan Reed, in a bookstore last year shortly after it had been released. I finally picked up a copy not long ago and dove in. After finishing it yesterday, I have a new found desire to learn good skimming and speed-reading skills. I [...]
Malcolm Gladwell wrote an article in September called The Cellular Church. It’s about Rick Warren and Saddleback. This one has been linked on a few blogs, but I wanted to pass it along as well for anyone who might have missed it. I’m a fan of Gladwell’s writing, and it is good to read about [...]
I’ve had little interest in the chaos that happens in stores on the day after Thanksgiving. I did stoop to looking through the ads, and nothing really caught my eye — except a nice and plump 200gb hard drive for $30 at CompUSA. I’ve been digitizing a lot of our video to our hard drives, [...]
This morning, I read the manuscript of a marvelous lecture by NT Wright called “How Can the Bible be Authoritative?” (Thanks to NTWrightPage.com for making it available: HTML/ PDF. Thanks also to Mark and Gary who both recommended it to me.) This is a must read for anyone who is serious about understanding the role [...]
Just about a year ago, I posted about my appreciation for Explosions in the Sky. Their music is a “soundtrack for life” of sorts. In the past few months, I have been enjoying Sigur Rós in much the same way. Their music has an ethereal quality to it that I find to be perfect for [...]
As I mentioned here, we spent some time last week looking at the Lord’s Prayer. In our desire to see this as a prayer of God’s work of redemption, I saw a phrase in a way I had never before seen it. As Dean and I were talking though it, the phrase “give us today [...]
What if we all spent less time trying to weigh the difference we can make, and more time trying to make a difference any way we can?
This week in our home groups, we were discussing redemption. We spent some time with the Lord’s Prayer (Matthew 6:9-13). If God’s prime mission in our world is redemption, then how is the Lord’s Prayer is a prayer asking God to redeem this world? And how is it a prayer asking how we can partner [...]
I’ve been in many conversations of late about the idea of bounded or centered sets and how that concept could help define what it means to be a part of a community following Jesus. I think I was first introduced to this thinking in The Shaping of Things to Come. One of these conversations a [...]
Brian McLaren has a new book coming out this spring called The Secret Message of Jesus. This seems too similar in title and concept to The Lost Message of Jesus, so I wonder how they will differ. At the Generous Orthodoxy conference, one of McLaren’s messages was a look at the historical message of Jesu. [...]
In the midst of starting a new church, one of the mantras I keep repeating to myself and others is, “Let’s keep it simple!” There is enough going on already. Let’s keep details to a minimum so we can focus on relationships. One of our desires has been to record the teaching in order to [...]
