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Continue reading →: ★ Happy St. Benedict's Day
Today is the Feast day for St. Benedict of Nursia, whose monastic rule is the basis for virtually all monastic communities since the 500s. It offers a practical, not overly harsh, system for life in community and features balanced time for work, prayer, reading and sleep. One of my first…
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Categories: Faith
★ It's all about timing
Continue reading →: ★ It's all about timing23 Listen to me; listen, and pay close attention. 24 Does a farmer always plow and never sow? Is he forever cultivating the soil and never planting? 25 Does he not finally plant his seeds— black cumin, cumin, wheat, barley, and emmer wheat— each in its proper way, and each…
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Categories: Faith
★ Listening to voices unlike yours
Continue reading →: ★ Listening to voices unlike yoursI ran into a Calvary Chapel pastor’s blog post that referenced the article I write for Next-Wave a while back. It’s a fun blog to read, as I think that the author thinks he and I are way more different in our theology and our practices than I suspect we…
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Categories: Faith
★ The Ooze's Next Batch
Continue reading →: ★ The Ooze's Next BatchI got another batch of books from Mike at The Ooze today! There’s four in here, and all look fantastic. In the coming weeks you’ll find summaries of “Oh Shit ! It’s Jesus” (Steve Hughes) , , “The New Conspirators: Creating the Future One Mustard Seed at a Time” (Tom…
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Categories: Uncategorized
★ Attractional vs Missional
Continue reading →: ★ Attractional vs MissionalWith regard to those outside itself, … The attractional church says come and see. The missional-incarnational church says go and be.
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★ Ira Glass on Working Through the Suck
Continue reading →: ★ Ira Glass on Working Through the SuckHere’s a great little (5 min) video from This American Life storyteller Ira Glass about how to work creatively when you’re not feeling very creative and your output shows it. From four videos of a Storytelling series on Youtube via Merlin Mann/43Folders
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Continue reading →: ★ Let the feast begin
Let the feast begin Originally uploaded by PatL This is my church’s (Ohana Project) biggest party – the Luau. Once a month, usually the first Sunday, we gather together and as an act of worship, we serve our community as a church. Sometimes we help a local food bank stock…
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Categories: Faith
★ The Missional Church is…
Continue reading →: ★ The Missional Church is…Brother Maynard over at Subversive Influence has been doing a series of recaps of last week’s missional synchroblog. This is the final recap before Bro M himself writes a summary, and at the end of the post there is a very helpful list of characteristics of what we hope missional…
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Continue reading →: ★ For my friends Jen, Rachelle, Eliacin and you
Funny how sometimes it’s hard to see the forest for the trees, and those who are forerunners, at the edge, pushing the envelope – sometimes it’s hard to know what their contribution really is (besides pissing people off and raising a ruckus, which is only sometimes as fun as it…
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Continue reading →: ★ Critiquing Culture (quoting Tom Sine)
I’m taking a break from reading for my Doctor of Ministry – following what I believe is the inspiration of the Trinity – and reading “The New Conspirators: Creating the Future One Mustard Seed at a Time” (Tom Sine). I’ve read several good summaries or reviews of the book, for…
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