(This post is the introduction to a series reflecting on David Bosch’s six distinctives for a missiology of Western culture. See the end of the post for links to the rest of the series.) David Bosch was a missiologist in South Africa who died in 1992. A car accident took his life only a year [...]
From the monthly archives:
September 2008
As I’m trying out local coffee shops, a few favorites are starting to emerge. One of those is Sodade Coffee House, near Duval and MoPac. I’ve been spending as much time at Sodade as anywhere else because they score high in my primary criteria — they make one of the best (and cheapest) lattes I’ve [...]
A year or two after we moved into our home in Washington, I noticed they were starting to move some dirt around on a vacant street corner. It was within walking distance of our house, and I was excited to see what new, and walkable, convenience we might have. It turned out to be a [...]
You can’t judge a book by it’s hype. Or maybe you can. I was interested in reading The Shack the first time I heard of it early this year. But, at the time, I was in the midst of an obscure series called Harry Potter that I didn’t want to break away from, so I [...]
Many of my conversations with other church planters of late have centered around worship services/gatherings. I am usually the one raising the topic as I have been curious to learn from the experiences of others as we shape our strategy for Austin Mustard Seed. One thing has been significant in these conversations. I’ve talked to [...]
“You should really connect with Kester Smith.” I’m not sure how many times I heard that phrase in the last few months as we have transitioned to Austin. Kester and I have a number of mutual friends (but maybe that is because Kester has about 340973 friends on Facebook). I can think of at least [...]
As we call people (back) to faith in God through Jesus Christ, we must help them to articulate an answer to the question ‘What do we have to become Christians for?’ At least part of the answer to this question will have to be: ‘In order to be enlisted into God’s ministry of reconciliation, peace, [...]
My friend Justin recommended a helpful resource to me several months ago. (BTW, he does great work with an organization called Life in Abundance International and you should check it out.) It’s a little booklet by Henri Nouwen called The Spirituality of Fund-Raising and you can request a free copy from The Nouwen Society. Nouwen’s [...]
Hello to all who are thinking about blogging. I’ve been at it since mid 2004, and I think I have one important lesson to share. There may be other lessons I could offer, but I think I am more qualified than anyone to talk about this particular topic. Google seems to think I am too… [...]
