Tag: Mt. Si Vineyard
Sunday Times article on the Healing Rooms
April 12th, 2006, No Comments
It was old-fashioned faith healing with a new twist: no promises, no proselytizing, no pressure for donations. Just simple prayer.
This past weekend’s Sunday Times included a front page article on one Seattle area healing room prayer focus.
I have friends (and people who have committed to pray for our church) who are part of the prayer [...]
When You Don’t Know What to Preach
March 10th, 2006, 2 Comments
Frequently I have no idea what to preach* about. Usually I have a Biblical text, or an understanding of what our need for spiritual formation is, but every so often I have no idea how a sermon can flow out of it. So in that circumstance usually I give up, bring the text [...]
Organic Prayer
February 6th, 2006, No Comments
Kevin Rains writes today about VBCC’s experience yesterday with prayer for healing. I’m happy to say that we continue forward in that realm as well – so I’ll add a mini-story as well.
I’ve written here previously about Lori. She remains cancer-free, > 12 months after her diagnosis. Lou and Lori, charismatic Lutherans [...]
Strategic Planning for Missional Churches :: Identify Your Sandbox
February 4th, 2006, 1 Comment
This is another part in the Strategic Planning for Missional Churches series. You can find the whole series by viewing this tag.
Part of the strategic planning process, and the one which allows you to scope and scale your effort, is the identification of the “sandbox” you want to play in. The goal in a [...]
Sermon//Discussion – How does Jesus train his disciples?
February 2nd, 2006, No Comments
As I wrote a while back, we’re doing a parallel processing exercise at the moment, looking at Jesus from a fresh perspective and discussing our way through all 4 gospels at once.
This past Sunday we discussed the question, “how does Jesus train his disciples?”. I recorded the discussion on my iRiver, did some very [...]
Membership Requirements
January 23rd, 2006, 3 Comments
“The refusal to grapple with the issue of entrance into the Christian Church is not tolerance; it is betrayal of the gospel which we preach. No one claims that seeking to ensure integrity of membership is not fraught with danger and difficulty, but the answer does not lie inn skirting the problem. The [...]
ReImagining Jesus
January 15th, 2006, 2 Comments
As we’re restarting, I’m in zealous pursuit of a True image of Jesus for myself and for our church. I want us to shed our preconceived notions, our culturally-infected understandings, our self-imposed limitations on the creator of the universe. I want us to deconstruct Jesus, and reconstruct Jesus based upon the images [...]
PL@MSV Podcast: 1-4-06 Post-Prayer Notes
January 4th, 2006, 1 Comment
Last night I had a fantastic time with some of my church plant coaches, Rich and Rose Swetman of Vineyard Community Church in Shoreline, WA. On the drive home, I decided it would be helpful to brain-dump some of the prophetic encouragement that we sensed in prayer, so I recorded that in my iRiver.
Beware! These [...]
PL@MSV Podcast: The State of Our Church
January 4th, 2006, No Comments
Last night I had a fantastic time with some of my church plant coaches, Rich and Rose Swetman of Vineyard Community Church in Shoreline, WA. On the drive home, I decided it would be helpful to brain-dump some of the prophetic encouragement that we sensed in prayer, so I recorded that in my iRiver. [...]
Where do we go from here?
December 28th, 2005, 4 Comments
I’ve been reluctant to blog more, as the events leading up to my last blog entry felt, well, final, and I sort of didn’t want to break that sense of finality. But of course we’re not dead yet; it’s just a flesh wound. And, since whatever we do next will be under [...]
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