Tim Bagwell, John Avant and Ed Stetzer of the North American Mission Board are helping to launch a new Missional Network for those involved with the SBC. Some really great guys have been involved with this from the get-go and today there was a conference call for Missional types with blogs to help spread […]
Well, here’s the update on the race for the worst record in the Majors. With a 13 game losing streak the Royals have taken a commanding lead (who are the poor saps that let them win a game?).
National League
Florida 15-33
Pittsburgh 16-34
San Francisco 26-24 (What kind of last place team is this? Over .500, […]
Well, it’s not exactly a secret anymore that we are looking at the idea of beginning a house church network on campus (Central MO State University). I have been thinking and praying about this for about 6 years in general and over the last 6 months or so have been in serious conversations with […]
Let me begin by stating my main thesis from the outset which will hopefully serve as light at the end of the tunnel. My contention is that language is a powerful medium for shaping the way people actually live, the values they embody. Language is not just a conveyer of information filling up repositories […]
Here is a great quote by NT Wright as he develops the notion of improvising (read faithfully living out the Biblical text) the script of Scripture in the 21c. It’s a full (and long) paragraph, but worth the read.
The notion of “improvisingâ€? is important, but sometimes misunderstood. As all musicians know, imporovisation does not at […]
So I have been thinking about some different things related to the power of language. I’m a verbal thinker and processor so I wanted to go ahead and post my thoughts as a way to work through the ideas, process the implications, and have you help me out by interacting with the posts.
With that, […]
Well, I made it safely to L.A. for the Origins Conference. I left from KC at 7:10am in the morning and got here at 4:30 Pacific time. Why did it take so long (I’m sure you’re all asking that). A 6 hour layover in Memphis! Oh well, I got a book read yesterday, so it […]
What have you read recently that you think we should drop everything to pick up?
One of the things addressed in Driscoll’s book, Confessions of a Reformission Rev., is the fact that megachurches may be the future of Christianity in the coming years. Pointing to Lyle Schaller’s research, “most people born after 1965 are used to functioning in much larger institutions (e.g., schools, grocery stores, hardware stores). Therefore […]
If you haven’t discovered Scot McKnight’s blog, Jesus Creed, you really need to do that. He is a NT scholar who is exceedingly readable, communicating a way that is tranferable, etc. He is spending the summer working through the book of Romans and so far it is great stuff (only 2 or 3 posts into […]
