I had never heard of the pastor from Australia with the unpronounceable last name before his story broke a couple of weeks ago, so I didn’t have an emotional attachment to his apparently popular song. I also don’t want to diminish the damage his sin has done to people who trusted him and the [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘church’
August 27, 2008
patience, patience
I was having a late night conversation with my wife not too long ago and we were talking about, well… pretty much everything, mostly a project that I’m working on about church.
Some background for our conversation. People leave Church. Not just my church or your church but Church. They do this for a variety of [...]
July 31, 2008
It’s okay not to like stuff!
I don’t generally write rants here. Not because I don’t like a good rant now and then, but you can find a lot of them online and I don’t need any more space in my life to complain about stuff. So forgive the next 200 words or so.
Matthew Paul Turner has a post on not [...]
July 29, 2008
Why I am a Sports Atheist
I got the term from Bill Simmons, of whose writing I am a big fan. Basically he uses the term to refer to those who follow and love pro sports without declaring allegiance to a specific team. I’m splitting hairs a little bit, but a more accurate term would probably be sports pluralist. The sports [...]
July 7, 2008
How to read the Bible
We’re experimenting with some teaching stuff online. Let me know what you think about both format and content
Thanks and enjoy
May 22, 2008
if I say it out loud it will be real, right?
So I’m working on a book. It sounds silly even as I say it but I am and I want to finish it so I’m going to pressure myself by announcing it publicly. Feel free to ask me how it’s coming so I will feel stupid if my answer is that I haven’t touched in [...]
May 14, 2008
The best laid plans… #1
So we’re in a re planning thing for Bridgepointe. There are some church planters or aspiring or recovering church planters who end up here, so I’ll put the plan up in small parts for your perusal and ridicule. Enjoy.
What
What is a church?
We believe that the local church is a group of people called by and [...]
May 13, 2008
Yes I signed it, and I’d do it again
I signed the Evangelical Manifesto today. I read it first, in case you’re wondering. And I read the whole thing not just the shortened highlights version.
I didn’t expect to sign it. These kinds of large scale statements tend to have some mileage amongst people like me who have a vested interest and the time to [...]
May 10, 2008
If I’d been Senator Obama’s pastor…
He would have heard a lot more lame jokes, like this one
“So with Phinehas God begins what we sometimes call the Aaronic Priesthood… Not to be confused with the Ironic Priesthood, that was a mediorce sketch comedy troupe from Winnipeg circa 1993″
See, It might be painful to listen, but no one is going to replay [...]
