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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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Continue reading →: ★ Evangelism Update
This morning was our monthly area Vineyard pastors’ gathering. About 12 or 15 churches in the Seattle – Tacoma – Olympia area are represented. As we were sharing what God’s doing in us, we realized that the Holy Spirit is stirring many – or most – of us in the…
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Continue reading →: Evangelism Update
This morning was our monthly area Vineyard pastors’ gathering. About 12 or 15 churches in the Seattle – Tacoma – Olympia area are represented. As we were sharing what God’s doing in us, we realized that the Holy Spirit is stirring many – or most – of us in the…
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Continue reading →: ★ Kind, but not Soft
I’m reading Romans this morning in The Message. From 2:3-4 there’s this wonderful translation: God is kind, but he’s not soft. In kindness he takes us firmly by the hand and leads us into a radical life-change. Radical life-change. What a powerful update of the term “repentance”. Jesus’ message, then,…
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Continue reading →: Kind, but not Soft
I’m reading Romans this morning in The Message. From 2:3-4 there’s this wonderful translation: God is kind, but he’s not soft. In kindness he takes us firmly by the hand and leads us into a radical life-change. Radical life-change. What a powerful update of the term “repentance”. Jesus’ message, then,…
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Continue reading →: ★ “So, how’s your church doing?”
I HATE answering that question. I REALLY hate answering that question. I hate it becase of how it makes me feel, and how I feel I should answer the question, and what I want to say, and how I can’t tell if the person asking the question sincerely wants to…
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Continue reading →: “So, how’s your church doing?”
I HATE answering that question. I REALLY hate answering that question. I hate it becase of how it makes me feel, and how I feel I should answer the question, and what I want to say, and how I can’t tell if the person asking the question sincerely wants to…
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Continue reading →: ★ Proud Unclepastor
I’m having an IM conversation with my neice. She’s 22 and a budding evangelist (always dragging friends along to the stuff she’s doing). She’s great – twice now she’s taken missing (insert your own term here) friends to Vineyard emerging leader gatherings, which pretty much presume leadership and Christian faith,…
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Continue reading →: Proud Unclepastor
I’m having an IM conversation with my neice. She’s 22 and a budding evangelist (always dragging friends along to the stuff she’s doing). She’s great – twice now she’s taken missing (insert your own term here) friends to Vineyard emerging leader gatherings, which pretty much presume leadership and Christian faith,…
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Continue reading →: ★ Hip-Hop Spoken Word Scripture
I’m a 35 year old white guy who grew up in Montana. I live in a Beaver-Cleaver neighborhood in suburban Seattle. I like Dave Matthews and Phish. So it might be surprising that I like this, I suppose, but it’s excellent: Via Urban Onramps, spoken word hip hop Scripture cuts…
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