I love my church, but an ear-aching silence hit me while I was sitting in the sanctuary trying to listen to the message today.
200 people sitting quietly in one moment in time. That’s an awful lot of people to not be expressing themselves.
However, I still believe in preaching. I’ll post a few thoughts [...]

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Stellar’s a thinker and a poser just like daddy.

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Here’s a thought of the week:
Could we create a church of missionaries that sends out so many people it ceases to exist?
Sweet links for the week
- The entire Passion ‘07 event is available for viewing till midnight tonight. Speakers include John Piper, Beth Moore, Francis Chan, and of course Louie Giglio.
- A very [...]

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I dropped in on two other church planting network groups this past week. One was connected with Church Planting Canada out in Bowmanville (don’t ask me where that is).
Very cool, as all the guys here were in the messy midst of the early stages of church planting.
The other group was connected [...]

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I’m not much of a TV watcher, especially after Alias ended. But I’ve found a new favorite show that I finally just caught up with online.
Heroes. It’s about ordinary people discovering extraordinary abilities. Sounds like a call to all of humanity.
One of my favorite characters is Hiro Nakamura. Besides the ethnic [...]

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Some random links that might feed your online addictions…
You’ve probably seen the stats on the global village (ie. what the world would look like if it were shrunken down to a hundred people), here’s a flash video of it.
Quick tool for generating rss subscription buttons like I have on my sidebar.
ziki - helps [...]

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The following is a great nugget from Pernell
To all you young ‘uns (and other assorted riff raff) who have ever thought about - or are thinking about - planting a church: Before you embark on your “rock-star-like” career, I think your perception of church planting may be a little clouded by the bull crap [...]

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No I didn’t go this year. But Yu-ling’s been doing some live blogging from the event.
If you don’t know what Urbana is, it’s a missions conference with twenty-thousand or so students every few years. See here for streaming videos of the sessions.
In keeping with blogging more this year, I’ll be posting some archived [...]

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Some goals for 2007
Family - spend lots of quality time with my two ladies. Become more and more a healthy and spiritual household of influence to our communities.
People - Consistently invest my time and resources into people - extended family, friends, maybe even some Christians
Ministry - I’ll be giving my time and energy [...]

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