a pastor in Austin
From the monthly archives:
As Austin Mustard Seed prepares to move into our first gatherings, we have been asking friends and supporters to join together in 24 hours of prayer over on our support team blog. This will take place next Saturday through Sunday evening, and we’ve filled about 70% of the half hour slots. If you’d like to [...]
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‘Mission’ is a word that spans the total distance between God and the world’s salvation. The whole dynamic of the church’s life may be conveyed by this single verb.” — Paul S. Minear in Images of the Church in the New Testament
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Some current and recent reading on what the Bible says the church should be has helped me find new language for a question that is often present for me. Is the Bible meant to be prescriptive, or descriptive?
If the Bible is prescriptive, then we come to it with an understanding that it is a manual [...]
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I enjoy reading enough that even grad school wasn’t able to take the joy out of it. It just exposed me to a lot more material that I haven’t read yet. Being a few months removed from all that required reading, I’m starting to develop some patterns for what I’m reading.
I’m usually in the [...]
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I spent much of the last week putting together the website for Austin Mustard Seed, the new church community we are part of in Austin. I love this creative part of the process — taking ideas that have been developing for years and shaping them into words within a layout.
There is a part of [...]
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Last night, while watching Michael Clayton, I started playing around with a new template for this blog. That might not have been the best idea, because I missed about three, or fifteen, important developments in the plot. But at least I have a new template to show for it.
My sidebar had built up about four [...]
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I’m cool enough to have read most of Dave Eggers’ books, but not cool enough to know if it is still cool or not to like Dave Eggers. But I do. And all the more after listening to his TED talk from earlier this year:
(Here’s a direct link if the embedded video didn’t work for [...]
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Yesterday, I was working on the layout for our new church website and I got to reminiscing about my web designing back in the good old days. The Wayback Machine reminded me of some of the webpages I did back when Prince was still formerly known as.
Here’s the old website from my part-time graphic [...]
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…you paste your face in a 1978 yearbook picture, and the only thing that looks different is your hair color.
This photo brought to you during time spent entertaining my son, courtesy of YearbookYourself.
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“Ah yeah, clusters … … … What are those?”
That was my response to my friend Doug’s email earlier this summer. He had read the strategy document I was developing for our church start up. After reading it, he thought that it was similar to a movement of churches in the UK that are shaping themselves [...]
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On Saturday, I introduced The Artist’s Way Collective over on Creativityist. This will be a shared online experience of working through The Artist’s Way, by Julia Cameron, together.
I first went through this book three years ago. You can read my impressions at the time here. As I’m leaning into a new season of life, I [...]
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Earlier this year, I became an Ooze Select Blogger. Now I’m sure that sounds quite glamorous, but its pretty simple. Publishers partner with the Ooze to send me free books, and I tell you what I think about them on my blog. How can I turn down free books?
Here are some of the books I’ve [...]
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Jesus came to bring good news to the poor, not those who serve the poor! … The healing power in us will not come from our capacities and our riches, but in and through our poverty. We are called to discover that God can bring peace, compassion and love through our wounds.” — Jean Vanier, [...]
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