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Continue reading →: God of the Brokenhearted
We’ve been praying lately that we could be a church who reaches out to the brokenhearted and serves the poor. I’ve written about several facets of this in the past: God’s challenge to us this year; projects aimed at the poor; a David Ruis seminar (I just relized I never…
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Continue reading →: ★ Battling Myself for Simplicity’s Sake
My biggest challenge in my spiritual life right now is to be a simple man, simply a follower of Jesus. I continue to find myself sensing God’s leading to simplify. To spend less time on events and more on process. To mediate more. To study … well, not less, but…
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Continue reading →: Battling Myself for Simplicity’s Sake
My biggest challenge in my spiritual life right now is to be a simple man, simply a follower of Jesus. I continue to find myself sensing God’s leading to simplify. To spend less time on events and more on process. To mediate more. To study … well, not less, but…
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Continue reading →: ★ Family Update
We’ve had a bunch of family trauma recently. It seems wild to think about, but in the last two weeks: My brother’s son was born (Christopher William), and he has a bacterial infection that’s keeping him in the hospital for 7 days. We get to go see him tomorrow! Shannon’s…
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Continue reading →: Family Update
We’ve had a bunch of family trauma recently. It seems wild to think about, but in the last two weeks: My brother’s son was born (Christopher William), and he has a bacterial infection that’s keeping him in the hospital for 7 days. We get to go see him tomorrow! Shannon’s…
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Continue reading →: ★ Alpha Kickoff
Last night we held our Alpha kickoff dinner. This is our first Alpha course. All but one of the people that we expected to show up actually did, so that was cool. Maybe 15 adults and 5 kids. Almost half don’t go to our church. Four or five of the…
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Continue reading →: Alpha Kickoff
Last night we held our Alpha kickoff dinner. This is our first Alpha course. All but one of the people that we expected to show up actually did, so that was cool. Maybe 15 adults and 5 kids. Almost half don’t go to our church. Four or five of the…
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Continue reading →: ★ On the Power of Forgiveness
At the gym today I was reading the latest issue of Rolling Stone which had just come in the mail. It included a mesmerizing story on the power of forgiveness. You can find the main article here on RS’s site, though some of the side articles surrounding this one are…
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Continue reading →: On the Power of Forgiveness
At the gym today I was reading the latest issue of Rolling Stone which had just come in the mail. It included a mesmerizing story on the power of forgiveness. You can find the main article here on RS’s site, though some of the side articles surrounding this one are…
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Continue reading →: ★ Gleanings from the Pub Culture
Rob McAlpine (robbymac the ecclesiastical anarchist, blogging here) published a very good article based on his experience playing in a Celtic rock band in the pub scene, following Jesus and interacting with people. Rob and I have interacted in email and blog comments for a while now, and I really…
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Things I do: Engineering leadership; Grad Instructor in spirituality, creativity, digital personhood, pilgrimage.
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