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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Urbana…
January 4, 2007
Organic Church…
December 29, 2006
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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Gandhi and Christmas…
December 23, 2006
During this Christmas season as the story of God is tossed around, Gandhi has something important to say to us:
“You Christians look after a document containing enough dynamite to blow all civilization to pieces, turn the world upside down, and bring peace to a battle-torn planet.
But you treat it as though it is nothing more [...]
Tracks of a fellow struggler…
December 18, 2006
Yesterday I read “Tracks of a fellow struggler” by John Claypool for a crisis counseling course I’ll be taking next semester.
It was especially moving for me as it was the reflections of a pastor who watched his eight-year old girl die of leukemia.
Here are a few contextless snippets:
It has taken this long to get to [...]
Workaholic?
October 26, 2006
Excellent insight from InsideGoogle, definitely helps justify any bit of workaholism I have…
Googler Niniane Wang is vacationing in Egypt, but she had enough time to blog this exchange, which resulted when a traveling companion was typing away on his Sidekick, instead of enjoying the vacation.
Me: [after some silence] Do you think Google does this to [...]
Short-term missions…
October 19, 2006
…is the Crack-Cocaine of this generation of Christians.
(posted around my seminary currently)
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Unconditional love…?
October 9, 2006
Rick Tobias, CEO of Yonge Street Mission in downtown Toronto, teaches my Youth at Risk class.
Rick stated that “We abandon our kids when they abandon our values. Whether they are gay or chemically dependent, they are still our children and worthy of our love.”
How easy is it for us to withdraw our love when people [...]
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An excellent question…
September 10, 2006
A while back, I was corresponding with Jack Popjes (With Wycliffe Canada, who spent a bulk of his life as a missionary in Brazil), and discussing my future. He asked me a fantastic question that I ask myself every year.
Where would you honestly put yourself right now on a scale from 1 to 10. [...]
Confessions…
July 27, 2006
I’m adding a new category to my vox called ‘confessions’.
I think there’s something liberating about confessing. Just as the scriptures call for us to confess our sins, and as Peter confessed that Christ was the Son of the living God, I believe that confession is something that is raw and profound.
I love writing and [...]
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The world is flat and invisible children…
April 24, 2006
I just finished my last paper for the term, and it looks like there’s no appropriate classes I can take in the summer, so I’ve got a couple months of living and working like a normal person.
I’ve gotten back on reading. Currently going through “The divine conspiracy“, “The secret message Jesus“, and I just [...]
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