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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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Hoping for the death of your child…

A heart-wrenching story coming out of Toronto. (See the Toronto Star article) Two babies are in intensive care, one that will only survive if given a new heart;  another with a strong heart, but no chance of survival. The latter child, Kaylee, was taken off life support, so that her heart could be donated to [...]

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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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movein.to

Some friends of mine have an awesome vision of incarnating Christ into the neighbourhoods of Toronto.  They’ve been researching hard and have identified 25 of the poorest and most unreached patches in the city, and are asking for people to literally move-in, and be the church in these neighborhoods. They are holding their first conference [...]

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The Evolving Church 2009 Wrap up

First off, congrats to the epiphaneia folks for pulling off the conference again, trying new things, and getting a great turn out. You can see my previous integrated live blog/tweet notes for Walter Wink plenary and Dan Oudshoorn workshop Stanley Hauerwas plenary and David Fitch workshop and Marva Dawn’s closing plenary Besides the content and ‘nuggets’ [...]

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Evolving Church – Live Blogging…

Morning Session for the evolving church: amidst the powers – Walter Wink and Dan Oudshoorn

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Blogging Powers

I’ll hoping to be doing my first real live-blogging event tomorrow at “Evolving Church: Amidst the Powers“. I’m going to try using ScribbleLive for each session, partly because it’s developed by some guys in Toronto, Canada. Also, it allows me to embed live updates to posts here, directly follow my twitter account which will contain [...]

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Little Saviors…

The clock just struck Christmas here, and a song by the goo goo dolls is playing in my head. And you ask me what I want this year And I try to make this kind and clear Just a chance that maybe we’ll find better days Cuz I don’t need boxes wrapped in strings And [...]

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