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Reclaiming the Mission » Not A “Franchise”: Steps to Seeding a Missional Community in the Neighborhood

February 6th, 2010, 1 Comment

Assuming we have discerned the place God is calling us to, the following 5 issues should be discerned as each group forms. Each one of these issues takes discernment as well as much prayer and seeking God for guidance. I take it for granted that each church planter is seeking God and listening to the [...]

N.T. Wright on How Our Worldview Impacts Our Reading of Scripture

February 3rd, 2010, No Comments

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Pastoralia » N.T. Wright on the Myth of Adam & Eve

February 3rd, 2010, No Comments

The beauty of N.T. Wright is that for some he sounds like a milquetoast liberal and for others this will sound alarmingly fundamentalist. He must be doing something right. (HT: JR Rozko)

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You Want To Start A Third Place? | The Freeway

January 20th, 2010, No Comments

If you are part of a church that is thinking of starting a third place, and you have ended up on this site as part of your research (this happens for us now and again, it seems), allow me to suggest that you consider not starting a third place if any of the following things [...]

acknowledging the Giver of such dreams… « eugene cho

January 18th, 2010, No Comments

Martin Luther King Jr. was an extraordinary person.  Not perfect but nevertheless, extraordinary.  While we remember his legacy again on this day…let’s not make the mistake of forgetting the God behind this extraordinary man.  
It’s way too easy to talk about MLK because so many people and groups of people want to own him as [...]

One Day’s Wages – Global Street Team

January 11th, 2010, No Comments

I met today with three of the fine folks at One Day’s Wages, a Seattle-based non-profit which is generating a global grassroots community to end extreme poverty.
Last November, I blogged and posted a link to the launch video for the group (watch it if you haven’t already, or watch it again if you have [...]

Lectio: Luke 3:15-17; 21-22 | Sustainable Faith

January 8th, 2010, No Comments

Lectio: Luke 3:15-17; 21-22
January 8, 2010

The people were waiting expectantly and were all wondering in their hearts if John might possibly be the Messiah. John answered them all, “I baptize you with water. But one who is more powerful than I will come, the thongs of whose sandals I am not worthy to untie. He [...]

how to make a living playing music [or photography, or pastoring a church, or ...] | Ol’ Danny Barnes

December 31st, 2009, No Comments

i hear so much complaining about this subject, i just wanted to lay my practical experience on you. free.
first, three pre-conditions:
1. if you are a very materialistic person, skip this article, i don’t think you are going to like what it says. 2. if you don’t have the music where you [...]

Home Ownership, A New Poverty

December 31st, 2009, 2 Comments

Years ago there was no problem in renting an apartment even if there were five children in the family. Now it is quite another story. Most young families we know in New York today have had to “buy” a place, seeking a down payment from bank loans, from the G.I. Bill of Rights, from relatives [...]

Formulation of Prayer Practices and Rules of Life (Margaret Guenther, Holy Listening)

December 30th, 2009, No Comments

From Holy Listening: The Art of Spiritual Direction by Margaret Guenther
In writing my summary of this book I found a section that is really helpful to me as I’m formulating my own Way of Life. I’m writing this partly for the class that I most recently took, but mostly as part of my participating in [...]