From the monthly archives:
Leadership Network is in the middle of relaunching it’s leadership books blog. It will be the place for practical insights from books that leaders themselves are reading.
I got invited to be one of the dozen or so contributors in this collaborative blog, though looking through the list I’m definitely the newbie of the bunch.
I’m not sure if I’m going to dual post yet, but check out my latest on “Justice in the Burbs” here.
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Yesterday a life group I’m a part of helped out at the “Out of the cold” program which shelters, feeds, and clothes some of Toronto’s homeless. A few thoughts:
I arrived late, and really didn’t help out in any way. Yet one of the ‘clients’ insisted to thank me, and that I was still volunteering my time.
The site I was at is only allowed to take 25 guests on a given night. Others who were hanging out were ‘kicked out’, not because they weren’t wanted, but so they might have a chance finding a bed at another shelter before it was too late (it was -12 °C that night)
I wondered what might have been going through the minds of the guests who were predominantly caucasian being flooded by a predominantly asian group of volunteers.
I played cards for most of the time and had a blast. I recognized two people from sanctuary. There’s something about playing games together – for a moment, all of the economic/social/power-differentials are leveled out and we can just be ourselves – human beings having a good time.
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Not the brightest of videos, but I love the opening lyrics…
When I was,
A young boy,
My father, took me into the city
To see a marching band
He said, “Son when you grow up,
will you be the saviour of the broken,
the beaten and the damned?”
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I really need to do something about my blogroll. I’m not sure if it’s some type of integration with my rss reader or a separate page, but it’s been a mess for a while.
If your site/blog would still like to be on the list on the sidebar here, or currently are not, and would like to be on or link exchange, then just drop me a comment or an email.
I’ll clean sort things out and clean it up in the next week or so.
* For those of you who are just interested in reading the content on this site, I’ve added a new RSS button/link to the sidebar here (ie. if you would like to subscribe via bloglines/google reader/or other tools).
There is also now an email subscription option to have it sent directly to your inbox whenever I update content.
Have a happy Monday.
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In our seminary, expository narrative preaching is emphasized quite a bit.
Where traditional sermons have multiple points that are supported in a variety of ways, in narrative preaching the stories and metaphors are the points. The key is that with any good ’story’ tension is created and held for impact until nearly the end of the sermon.
I’ve been thinking about this ‘methodology’ and I think it can be taken a step further.
There is… umm… a sexual art-form known as tantric (I had to look it up to verify) that is known to be a spiritual encounter involving a prolonged engagement where tension is held to the end, but there may also be ‘releases’ throughout the experience as well.
I think this form of preaching might be more helpful in our culture of short attention spans while weaving a captivating story till the grand finale… Tantric Preaching. You heard it here first.
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