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Categories: Music
★ I'll never be a touring musician, but…
Continue reading →: ★ I'll never be a touring musician, but…One of the crappy results of aging is that it becomes more and more clear what you will NOT be. I’ll never be an NBA point guard, or an NFL punter, or POTUS (thank God). And it’s becoming more and more clear that I’ll never be a touring musician. But…
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Categories: Family
★ Full Circle Farms (organic produce co-op)
Continue reading →: ★ Full Circle Farms (organic produce co-op)A few weeks ago our family signed up for weekly deliveries from Full Circle Farm, a local organic farm not 10 miles from us. We are part of their CSA (Community-supported agriculture) system, so every week we get a box of locally grown fruit, vegetables and herbs that are fresh,…
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Categories: Uncategorized
★ Day 1 of Cultural Immersion
Continue reading →: ★ Day 1 of Cultural ImmersionOne of my fellow BGU students, Jack, is staying with us for a few days. Jack lives in Nairobi and works in Kibera Slum, where there are 1.2 million people in a 2.5 acre space. Jack has lived in Kibera for 22 years. He is now just outside of Kibera…
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Categories: Grad School
★ The Nature of Transition
Continue reading →: ★ The Nature of TransitionThese are thoughts about handling transitions in life. They come from a brief lecture by Grace Barnes at Bakke Graduate University in our Overture I course. Life changes occur by our choice and not by our choice. Transitions can be confusing and difficult. Even transitions for good reasons can cause…
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Continue reading →: ★ Exegeting a Community
One of the foundational beliefs for Ray Bakke and for Bakke Graduate University is that location, place, physical context, city, georgraphy – space is important. Ray writes in “Street Signs: A New Direction in Urban Ministry” (Ray Bakke, Jon Sharpe) about the process of doing this work. Here is a…
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Categories: Grad School
★ Overture I – Thursday 6/12 Journal
Continue reading →: ★ Overture I – Thursday 6/12 JournalPart of the learning model in the Doctor of Ministry program at Bakke Graduate University has us writing daily journals for each in-class day. These journals describe what we saw, how we interpreted it and what we’ll do with it. THURSDAY 6/12 Jack Mboya and I led worship. Jack led…
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Categories: Faith
★ Ministries in a Missional Church
Continue reading →: ★ Ministries in a Missional ChurchYesterday I ran across the website of a church in my town. They’re a great group, I love the pastor, and they’ve been in our community for long years. It was odd for me to notice, though, that the “Ministries” section of their website listed all of their inward facing…
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Categories: Faith
★ Measuring Success in a Missional Church
Continue reading →: ★ Measuring Success in a Missional ChurchI found a link to this post this morning in which W. David Phillips offers some suggestions about ways we can measure success in a missional church. Here are a few of the many ideas on that topic: # The number of cigarette buts in the church parking lot. #…
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Categories: Uncategorized
★ Overture I – Wednesday 6/11 Journal
Continue reading →: ★ Overture I – Wednesday 6/11 JournalPart of the learning model in the Doctor of Ministry program at Bakke Graduate University has us writing daily journals for each in-class day. These journals describe what we saw, how we interpreted it and what we’ll do with it. WEDNESDAY 6/11 On the drive in to work today I…
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