(Photo from here.)
I’ve been re-reading Houses that Change the World by Wolfgang Simson as I’ve been looking for more clarity going forward in life.
Here’s a quote in the book by Art Katz, a Messianic Jew, where he speaks of true community
Community life pulverizes your old ego in the power of the Spirit of God, and [...]

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Some excellent notes have come out around the web from the Q conference.
Via churchrelevance.com -
Kevin Kelly of Wired magazine on the next 1,000 years of Christianity
A World of Change
The Internet is about 4,000 days old. Our world is changing. In fact, no U.S. president has died under the same flag he was born under. The [...]

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I’m not all that into the Christian music scene, but there’s this song from a few years back that I’ve always loved by Sixpence none the richer. It’s called you’re here.
Here’s an audio clip but it doesn’t quite get to my favorite part of the song.
The second chorus sings
I can hear Your [...]

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Continuing the series on Creativity and Spirituality, the song writers today are the prophets and poets of our time.
I think I’ve spent all my life looking for myself and God within music. My wife can attest to the number of songs I rant about endlessly in where I find faith and song converging.
Here’s just [...]

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I never explained one of the items in my Lon-gerie fashion line earlier.

A while back I had wrote on my MSN messenger tag “My life is brilliant”, inspired by the first line in the James blunt song ‘You’re beautiful”.
Someone wrote to me and said how it was so typical of me, and how easy it [...]

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Shakespeare wrote: “I have immortal longings in me”. Don’t we all?

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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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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 personal highlights from Neil Cole’s Organic Church
People are leaving the church to preserve their faith
Most warm blooded-living things grow to a point and then reproduce
Many a church continues long after the soul of the church has departed because the building itself keeps them going. A building can become an artificial life support system [...]

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