we were out with a couple friends last night, having drinks at a rooftop bar and starting up at the stars when the guy we were with asked us, “how do you explain the gospel? how do you tell students what it is?” jon sighed, leaned back in his chair and said, “it’s different than [...]
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gospel
Posted in books, friends, god on August 7, 2008 | 1 Comment »
bullets
Posted in books, friends, lists on June 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
as is my style lately, i’m updating in bullets. here’s what’s on my mind:
josh ritter makes me smile. i had only heard his music a few times before jon got tickets to his show at the high noon last month. wow. maybe it was my lack of expectation, but the show kicked a$$. i can’t remember the [...]
dreaming & ideas
Posted in books, church, god, tagged dreams on April 9, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
i love ideas. i’m not sure if i ever loved ideas before, but i really love them now. i married a man who’s as giddy as a schoolboy when we talk about ideas; he holds on to them like kite strings, enjoying them when they catch a breeze and fly higher, and then reeling them in [...]
vocational welcome.
Posted in books, church, tagged dreams, emergent church, hospitality, welcome on April 3, 2008 | 1 Comment »
i have a shelf of books in my office that all deal with the same subject. i’m sure that i could quite easily sum up all that these writers had to say in a brief, 5-page essay. but then, of course, the clever cover illustrators wouldn’t have made a dime, and the authors would have [...]
the missional church
Posted in books, church, god, tagged church, rick mckinley, shane claiborne on March 19, 2008 | 2 Comments »
this morning, i tuned into my first-ever webinar featuring rick mckinley, the pastor at imago dei. the topic was the externally-focused church: breaking into the kingdom. i’m so grateful i took part in it.
two colleagues joined me, and between the three of us, we cried and laughed and threw out some “amens,” though not one [...]
