If you’ve been following Barack Obamamania, you may have seen Reverend Jeremiah Wright’s latest speech. I think he’s quite the communicator and offers some profound insights, but I can’t say I quite agree with a lot of what he says, or the arrogance he sometimes projects.
What caught my attention was his discourse on Black [...]

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God, give me a new heart… this one is crappy.

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Our community celebrated the resurrection Easter Sunday by a wonderful time of worship and painting.
I wanted to reflect on the Road to Emmaus that morning and Marty had passed me a wonderful idea that I just ran with.  In the story, the Scriptures state “Their eyes were opened” when the travelers realize Christ was among [...]

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It’s Good Friday. Today we reflect upon Jesus sacrificing his life for our hope of redemption.
Jackie Chan. He sacrifices his life for our amusement. This dude’s insane.

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If Jesus is Lord, what does that make you?
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A couple weeks ago I wrote a guest blog at  Aaron Havens site, it was in response to the question he asked:
Is there such thing as a “Christian lifestyle” ?
I have a hard time with the word ‘Christian’ these days, partially because the term has been so thoroughly abused by its adherents. I also [...]

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Do you believe in Beincarnation?
I heard this creative term a number of years ago and it’s never left me.
Similar to my post on tantric preaching, beincarnation co-opts another traditionally ‘Eastern’ term - Reincarnation. I’ll assume that’s okay since Jesus was an eastern teacher…
Reincarnation is driven by the cosmic judgment of your deeds in [...]

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Recently I was working on a research project interviewing a wide spectrum of people at a church. Questions were along the lines of where they were at spiritually with the church, what could use improvement, what they would do to change things and so on.
One interesting insight that came out of it was when [...]

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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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