I was sent a copy of Breaking the Missional Code by the authors for review on this blog. As a lover of books and gifts, this immediately endears me to both of these men. My feelings about the book are mixed.
On one hand, I really liked the general premise of the book. A major focus [...]
From the monthly archives:
May 2006
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It seems like pastors and Loverboy have something in common. We’re only interested in “working for the weekend”*. Unfortunately.
As a pastor, I read a lot of blogs of others pastors. Monday is reaction day. Many pastors review the day before and how they felt about their Sunday services. I certainly know the feeling, because I [...]
So I did some pastoral research yesterday and went to see The DaVinci Code. After seeing it, it’s crazy to me that the movie’s reviews have been as bad as they are. It was nowhere near as bad as the reviews have been. I think that after the first few reviews were bad, all the [...]
We’re talking about the end times this week at Pathways. More importantly, we’re talking about how to live in anticipation of them without mentally checking out of the present day. That dialogue led me to these lyrics:
No Earthly Good, by Johnny Cash
Come hear me good brothers come here one and all
Don’t brag about standing or [...]
They say that the best things in life are worth waiting for. Maybe that’s true, but in this case, waiting for three months just get’s you a new episode of TheoHacks, hosted by Zach Lind and yours truly.
Colossians Remixed, by Brian Walsh and Sylvia Keesmaat, is both a cultural and a textual commentary. They reveal how Paul’s message in the book of Colossians was deeply subversive to the Roman Empire. However, as so many other commentaries might, they don’t stop there. They continue by projecting what it might look like for that [...]
I spent the last three days in an intensive master’s class on leadership. It was taught by Ron Carucci. Ron has been a highly respected leadership consultant for corporate executives for many years. Today, he continues that work while he serves as the COO at Mars Hill. His work as a consultant, combined with his [...]
Sometimes you have to get creative when you don’t have an office.
Apple rolled out the MacBook today. (Kind of ironic since we picked up a used iBook really cheap off of Craigslist yesterday, but I already suspected this was coming, so no regrets.) Most people will be raving about the black, which is nice, but the black costs more than the others…it’s not as if you [...]
After seriously considering a switch to Cingular to get a Cingular 2125, we decided to stay with T-Mobile, and we got the T-Mobile SDA. Wow.
First of all, T-Mobile came up 1st or 2nd in customer satisfaction in all the reviews I found…Cingular was pretty much the opposite. Even my own experience with that. I spent [...]
Just testing a moblog post from my mobile phone!
I had coffee with Steve Lewis today. Steve is yet another connection I made through the blogosphere, and it was great to connect with him to hear his heart and dreams. He does campus ministry at UDub, but is working on a year-long program called inter::mission for recent graduates to immerse themselves in intentional community, [...]
The Short Version: PlanterBlogs.com is now PlanterPlanet.com. PlanterBlogs.com will no longer work, so please update your bookmarks and links on your site in order to help spread the word. (If you are subscribed to the old feed, it’s address has not changed, so you don’t need to change anything.)
The Long Version: Sometime in the last [...]
