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Continue reading →: 3:30
At 3:30a.m. today, Jesus came and took Ed home into the presence of Abba. We are crushed with grief. When we visited Ed earlier this week, the Spirit led me to read Psalm 91 for Ed and pray it over him. Psalm 91 1 He who dwells in the shelter…
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Continue reading →: ★ Hospital Revisited
A few entries ago I wrote about Ed, who had been hospitalized and I got to go see him and pray with him. Last night he went into the hospital again with more stomach pains. While he was there, he had a stroke. I went to see him at 1am…
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Continue reading →: Hospital Revisited
A few entries ago I wrote about Ed, who had been hospitalized and I got to go see him and pray with him. Last night he went into the hospital again with more stomach pains. While he was there, he had a stroke. I went to see him at 1am…
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Continue reading →: ★ Preview: About Creation West
I spent the last 4 days at Creation West. Somehow I feel slightly sheepish admitting that – whether it’s due to my age, or the fact that Creation isn’t very hip among pomo types, or what, I don’t know. Of course there’s no wireless in the middle of the Washington…
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Continue reading →: Preview: About Creation West
I spent the last 4 days at Creation West. Somehow I feel slightly sheepish admitting that – whether it’s due to my age, or the fact that Creation isn’t very hip among pomo types, or what, I don’t know. Of course there’s no wireless in the middle of the Washington…
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Continue reading →: Blogging at the Crossroads, part 2
Thanks, gang. That was helpful feedback. I think that the thing I enjoy the most about blogging is sharing stories, and what’s been bugging me is that the best stories from the past two weeks – the ones I think are absolutely hilarious and helpful to other planters – probably…
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Continue reading →: Blogging at the Crossroads
I’m finding myself at a blogging crossroads. My original plan with this blog was to keep a running track of what it’s like to plant a church in my context – emerging, Vineyard, suburban, middle-class, Spirit-led. My hope is to add a practical, day-to-day voice to the emerging church discussion,…
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Continue reading →: ★ Long week, good week
This has been one of those weeks that will be hard to forget. I officiated a memorial service and gravesite service for a friend’s grandmother. She was 90 years old when she died, and was the matriarch of what was a 5-generation clan. Children, grandchildren, great-grandchildren, great-great-grandchildren. I don’t want…
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Continue reading →: Long week, good week
This has been one of those weeks that will be hard to forget. I officiated a memorial service and gravesite service for a friend’s grandmother. She was 90 years old when she died, and was the matriarch of what was a 5-generation clan. Children, grandchildren, great-grandchildren, great-great-grandchildren. I don’t want…
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Continue reading →: ★ Pray for Sam
Please pray for Rudy Carrasco’s son Sam, who’s 4 years old and has just been diagnosed with leukemia. More details here on Rudy’s blog, Urban Onramps.


