This one came across my inbox this morning from my mom. I don’t know that I had read it before… but it absolutely exemplifies what being a Christian means for me. ‘A woman’s heart should be so hidden in ChristThat a man should have to seek Him first to find her.’ When I say… ‘I…
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Come Away With Me
(Adapted from an article written in the Christian Century, 1996, “Watching from the boat,” by Martin B. Copenhaver) I read this week in an article by Martin Copenhaver, about a pastor who resigned from a suburban church where relentless demands on his time and energy were beginning to wear him down. Instead of leaving the…
Strong in the Broken Places
All of us are gathered here this morning to celebrate. In fact – if we didn’t have something to celebrate, each of us would be inside our own churches or maybe even still in bed this morning. But no! We got up, we got dressed, we brought out the lawn chairs this morning because there…
church growth
#6) I have never been a fan of the church growth movement. While I went to a large church in high school – and served a large church in Nashville – I just never bought into the whole church growth schtick. As one of my seminary professors put it – the only thing that grows…
the incredibleness of sms
I think I never realized how SMS really is impacting the world and has transformed how we communicate until I listened to this story a while back on NPR: Mobile Phones Do Much More Than Make Calls In the phone calls that ensued on the show, people called in about living in a mud hut…
facebook ministry
7) outreach and ministry through facebook (prayers in the aftermath of the shooting tragedy in our county). Nearly two weeks ago, we had a tragic shooting near our community. I don’t need to go into details, but a young woman’s life was taken. There were very little official details at first, but everyone in the…
secrets
Link to a United Methodeviations post
Dan Dick makes a distinction between what he sees as mainline emergent and the roots of the emergent conversation and people out there who are living it