In our ‘class’ people are gathered in groups of four. To share not necessarily a ‘testimony’ but an experience or a moment in which they felt God became in anyway possibly more real to them.
What is it about sharing in smaller groups? Is it the defusing of fear in an intimate environment? [...]

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Yvz recently wrote me a stunning letter that has been fueling my heart through these draining days.
Stellar continues to be on of the most exhausting and exciting aspects of my life.
My community consists of some extraordinarily unique and interesting people. I’m amazed at how God has crafted each of them. Both of us [...]

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Leaders must feel that they need the community, as much as the community needs them.
Leaders must have the humility to acknowledge that they too are human beings with an intrinsic longing for community and belonging. Leaders need to allow others to speak into their lives and say the things that they may not be [...]

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Thanks for reading my daddy’s blog!

Thank you for hearing his thoughts, commenting, interacting, and sharing your own life through this little space on the web!
After averaging a couple thousand unique visitors a month, my mommy and daddy (who both aren’t working) have made a whopping $12 the past two months through google adsense!
Feel free to [...]

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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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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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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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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. [...]

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In the middle of taking a break from writing papers in the library today, I did a bit of dreaming and scheming for the future church plant. Inspired by the leadership synergy diagram from origins, I decided to flip it around and plot out some values of what I’ve been imagining. It’s been [...]

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I just finished reading Reclaiming Youth at Risk. I had my doubts at first. It uses Native American child-raising philosophy in helping create redeeming environments for our youth today. It has caused me to have a much deeper respect for the natie american people as well.
A quote from poet Edwin Markham:
He drew [...]

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