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 [...]
Entries from December 2006
Organic Church…
December 29, 2006
Maximum wage?
December 28, 2006
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. [...]
Some Christmas photos…
December 27, 2006
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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Gandhi and Christmas…
December 23, 2006
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 [...]
Nobody loves me…
December 21, 2006
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Holiday reading…
December 20, 2006
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 [...]
Tracks of a fellow struggler…
December 18, 2006
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 [...]
Who will create and shape the future church…
December 15, 2006
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 [...]
We’re doing better…
December 13, 2006
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 [...]
3 Horrible days…
December 9, 2006
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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