January 2008

Crippling them…

There’s this fantastic scene in the movie Remember the Titans that I’ve been reflecting on. Denzel Washington’s character Coach Boone has been really tough on his players and his assistant coach tells him to go easy on them.  Coach Boone replies by saying, You’re crippling them.  You’re crippling them for life. I wonder how often [...]

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What I want…

Some completely random and somewhat frivolous things I want right now… – A convergence of instant messaging platforms (particularly msn/google chat) – Mark Driscoll and Rob Bell to have coffee together – A really good custom theme for this blog – Adopt an adult – who’ll do all the little things around the house I [...]

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God – mine and not yours

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R.E.A.L. Disciplines

This past Sunday I introduced our church to r.e.a.l. disciplines. This is something I adapted from Michael Frost’s BELLS and Neil Cole’s LTG‘s. r.e.a.l. is an acronym for Reflect, Eat, Act, and Listen. Our goal is not simply to be a community of faith, but a community of practice. What does it mean to incarnate [...]

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Solar Crash: 2007 round-up

This past year was interesting year in blogging for me. After blogging on and off for several years, I really picked things up in 2007.  voxtropolis was a great launching pad for me, and moving over to solarcrash.com midway last year was a learning experience as well. After 222 posts in 2007, some reasons I [...]

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The church we dream of…

Some authors that I read (and respect), seem to be at their very best when they’re critiquing the church. And they’re often right, much of the church is not in good shape right now and we do need to be able to name and own up to our weaknesses. At the same time, we need [...]

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The Forgotten Ways…

I’ve been chewing on Alan Hirsch’s latest book, The Forgotten Ways, over the past few months. It’s somewhat of a follow up to The Shaping of things to come by Hirsch and Michael Frost. It’s a fairly dense read and Alan coins a number of new terms, which might be why it took me so [...]

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Solar Crash: December 2007 Round-up

Happy New Years All! Decembers top picks (feel free to continue interacting with any of them) The Starfish Manifesto True Community Sacred and Secular I’m Damned Top WordPress Bling Let me know if you’ve got favorites for the year of 2007 round-up!

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