Some have suggested posting my new blog to help redirect traffic. Here it is:
www.SubvertingMediocrity.com
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Well the time is finally hear to announce the big change with this site.
As I’ve already mentioned Subverting Mediocrity, new and improved, is moving here. All the old content is there, I have finally migrated all my old posts from vox and blogger! (No small undertaking.) But there are going to be some significant upgrades to the original Subverting Mediocrity in 2008, check it out. But that’s all info for another post.
What I’m excited to let out of the bag for this site is the dramatic changes that will occur in the next 2 weeks.
This site is transforming into a multi-contributor campus ministry resource site.
What you’ll find:
Contributors who are practitioners.
All new content.
Facts and Trends.
Store housing of ministry related resources including articles, web sites, audio, video, and more.
Peer-to-peer interaction for those involved in collegiate ministry (and beyond).
Best practices highlights.
Biblical and theological content.
Book Reviews and Discussions.
And so much more.
I can’t wait to see how this develops in 2008.
And now we want to hear from you. What sort of content, related to campus ministry, would you like to see on this site? What resources would you find helpful? Let us know.
Not many posts left for this year. So the move to the new site will be complete in just 2 days. Don’t forget to reset your rss readers for the all new Subverting Mediocrity. Check this post at the new site.
Fast Company: Learn innovation from Apple. Read it.
Get ESV NT giveaways for 50 cents per. Check it.
Big churches and their even bigger Christmas productions. Read it.
Interview with NT on Justification. Hear it.
Beyond Thinking Differently to Doing Differently. Check it.
More research on younger leaders staying away from the SBC. What’s new?
I’m trying to work my way through NT Wright’s The New Testament and The People of God. It’s a huge book with a lot of great material, Wright’s chapter on Critical Realism is a great treatment of the issue.
I just finished a chapter dealing with different facets to the growth of diversity in Judaism during the 2nd Temple Period. I came a cross a quote related to the focus and agenda of the Pharisees that seems to have some modern day analogues.
…faced with social, political and cultural ‘pollution’ at the level of national life as a whole, one natural reaction (with a strong sense of ‘natural’) was to concentrate on personal cleanness, to cleanse and purify an area over which one did have control as a compensation for the impossibility of cleansing or purifying an area - outward and visible political one - over which one had none. (187)
Check this post on my new site
People don’t use their gift cards, to the tune of 7.8 Mil. What’s up with that. Read it.
Looking for some end of the year book sales? Check it.
Innovation from the edges. Check it.
Here’s a revised version of the Peanuts Christmas Special:
Lost Season 4 is coming…
Has anyone seen The Great Debaters yet? Trailer:
This is just a good story.
Check this post out at my new site
Probably not posting much over the next few days though I am working on several ideas for upcoming posts. And don’t forget to check in at the start of the year to learn about the blog happenings for 2008.
George Will on Mike Huckabee’s campaign. Read it.
Need to take a mind dump? Check it.
CW lists his top creative websites. Check it.
JT mentions a new book, Why We’re Not Emergent (By 2 Guys Who Should Be). Check it and get a free chapter download.
DB brings back an oldie and goodie. Hear it.
Time’s Top 10 Religion Stories of 2007. Check it.
For everyone’s Christmas day reading, Poythress’s book Understanding Dispensationalism is online. Get it.
Another book of the year list for you to check out. Check it.
Another promo vid for the Resurgence 2008 Conference. Driscoll on the importance of reading Biographies:
Check out my recent post over at Ecumeniball.
One of the difficulties for a person in ministry struggling with the razor’s edge of working hard and hardly working is the question, “What do you do exactly.” Man, if I had a nickel every time I heard that we could fund 3 church plants right now.
It’s not that this shouldn’t be asked. Our attitude shouldn’t be that of the arrogant, incompetent journalist who spouts off any drivvle she’d like while supporting her claims with “I have stacks of evidence on my desk don’t question me.” No, the issue is different than that and shouldn’t elicit a defensive posture as though I’m being asked to prove the need for my existence.
Rather, the question belies a fundamental hardship for every pastor: most people are unacquainted with vocational ministry and thus just do not understand what and why you do what you do.
So with that hopefully this post will serve several purposes. 1. Maybe it will give you a glimpse into the world of a minister. 2. Maybe it will help you see some areas in which you, as a minister, should work hard. 3. If nothing else it will help you see some of my own priorities.
In my mind I think that Paul’s words to the Ephesian believers really form the framework for what I do as a minister.
And he gave the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists, the shepherds and teachers, to equip the saints for the work of ministry, for building up the body of Christ (Eph 4.11-12).
My goal and intent is to equip the saints for the work of ministry as I participate in the mission of God in our world. I want to help people come to know Jesus, grow in their allegiance to Jesus, and then to send them out to do the same with others.
Describing the difference between high culture, folk culture, and pop culture as it relates to the “worship wars” of the nineties (I know there are still some skirmishes happening but the war is done) Driscoll has some characteristic Driscollesque comments.
Some churches caught in the crossfire [of wars between high, folk, and pop culture] have resorted to a blended form of worship in which all three styles are used in the same service, which is often about as tasty as having a vintage merlot with your Big Mac. (p.100)
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