Character

Embracing Judas

Judas Iscariot is infamous throughout church history as the betrayer of Jesus. The story of Judas brings up a heap of issues such as Did Judas have a choice? Was the life of Judas predestined for evil? Was his betrayal necessary for the salvation of humanity? If so, should he get some credit here? Some [...]

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APEST 360 results

I helped beta test APEST 360 recently, developed by Alan Hirsch. The APEST assessment is a profiling instrument designed to assist you in finding your ministry style in relation to the philosophy of the fivefold ministry of Ephesians 4 (Apostles, Prophets, Evangelists, Shepherds, Teachers). It has emerged from 10 years of practical application of this model in various [...]

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God at the Taco Bell…

I was lining up for the Tuesday special at Taco Bell, and overheard the lady next to me making her order with what seemed like forced extra-polite English. I looked over and noticed she was an older Asian lady, and figured she must have immigrated here not too long ago, and imagined what a difficult [...]

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Wounded Healer

After reading “The Back of the Napkin” I’ve been doing more brainstorming and message preparation on my whiteboard.  Above was last sunday’s talk on “Wounded Healer”, decipher that… … the gist centered around Our woundedness, Christ the Wounded Healer, and our calling to be Wounded Healers in the world as well.

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10,000 hours…

In his latest book Outliers, Malcolm Gladwell examines the forces behind successful people. He brings up several key factors such as mental and social competence, cultural upbringing, and pure luck. Probably the most disappointing and intriguing ingredient to success Gladwell cites is that they just work harder than others. He even goes on to identify [...]

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Our empires of dirt

To follow up on the previous post on Christian platforms and networks… I was just re-introduced to this song Hurt, by Johnny Cash.  I haven’t really listened to this song since I was an angst filled teenager when it was originally by the Nine Inch Nails.  I loved the song because I felt it described [...]

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Confessions…

I’ve been highly unproductive the last few weeks trying to pray and listen for God to speak to me in terms of next steps… problem is He keeps speaking to me in all these other areas of my life. – I have answers to questions I haven’t honestly wrestled through myself – I judge people [...]

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A new heart…

God, give me a new heart… this one is crappy. photo by wallflower83

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