Some personal highlights from Neil Cole’s Organic Church
People are leaving the church to preserve their faith
Most warm blooded-living things grow to a point and then reproduce
Many a church continues long after the soul of the church has departed because the building itself keeps them going. A building can become an artificial life support system [...]

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Flipping through an issue of the Futurist, i stumbled across this revolutional concept for closing the wealth gap (ie. how in the United States 1% of the population holds more wealth than the entire bottom 90% combined).
In an article by Sam Pizzigati (www.toomuchonline.org) he proposes a ten times rule for a moving maximum wage. [...]

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Family…

A new generation of babies this year, Stellar, Carter, and Evan Noah

Home torched Creme Brule

And what’s Christmas without a present for daddy… Nothing like newborn poo shot out on the sleeve!

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During this Christmas season as the story of God is tossed around, Gandhi has something important to say to us:
“You Christians look after a document containing enough dynamite to blow all civilization to pieces, turn the world upside down, and bring peace to a battle-torn planet.
But you treat it as though it is nothing more [...]

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During those rare moments Stellar is sleeping I hope to get ahead on some reading over these next few weeks:
Organic Church: Growing Faith Where Life Happens by Neil Cole
Worship Old and New by Robert E. Webber
Planting Missional Churches by Ed Stetzer
Worship, Community and The Triune [...]

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Yesterday I read “Tracks of a fellow struggler” by John Claypool for a crisis counseling course I’ll be taking next semester.
It was especially moving for me as it was the reflections of a pastor who watched his eight-year old girl die of leukemia.
Here are a few contextless snippets:
It has taken this long to get to [...]

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Stellar’s still completely consuming my life these days, but here’s a portion of an article I recently wrote for the seminary newsletter.

The church is dying in North America. Most churches won’t acknowledge this because there’s still enough money to keep the lights on. Half of all churches did not connect a single person [...]

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It’s hard to express all the concern, love, and support we’ve received over the last while.
We had another little scare with Yvz’s health as she was going through some excessive bleeding, but things have quickly returned to ‘normal’.
Stellar’s very much a regular baby again, crying, feeding, and sleeping.
I’ve since found my keys a week later [...]

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Wednesday
We get called that Stellar needs to be rushed to the emergency unit.
I realized I’ve lost my keys as I’m speeding home to take our family to the hospital.
We get sent to the wrong emergency ward putting off urgent treatment that she needs for an hour
Stellar is diagnosed with severe Jaundice. Half [...]

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