I’ve come to the staggering conclusion that I don’t pray enough. I say that with a wry grin on my face because it’s not like it’s the first time I’ve realized that! The thing that keeps biting me in the rear is my propensity to getting sucked into playing around on the computer. It’s pretty [...]
Yesterday Grace Fellowship put on an afternoon Christmas Festival in the sanctuary, and I think it was quite a lot of fun and fairly successful for a first-time endeavor! We moved most of the chairs out of the way and set up some different “booths” right there in the church: crafts, balloon art, and face [...]
I’ve just started reading a fantastic book called Organic Church by Neil Cole, and it got me thinking about something I’ve been mulling over already for a while. Some people in church circles have been lamenting over the growth of postmodernism and pine for the good ol’ days when objective rationality and logical truth were [...]
Continuing our series Look Normal, Smell Different, which examines the different ways Christians and the church typically relate to the world, I want to talk today about one of the ways we present ourselves as followers of Jesus which is causing a huge rift in the church and alienating the populace in two different but [...]
As part of the relaunch of my blog, I had mapped out some blog topics to talk about on a monthly basis and was all ready to launch into the first series of the fall when my spirit and God’s Spirit collided and a different idea emerged. I haven’t abandoned my previous topic, but it’s [...]
In the movie Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, the female lead character, Clementine (played expertly by Kate Winslet), makes the following key statement during the course of the narrative: “I’m just a ****ed up girl who’s looking for my own peace of mind.” I think that is the heart’s cry of the postmodern world. [...]
I heard about the Internet Ministry Conference by way of Church Relevance, and these two posts of recap notes featured some extremely beneficial information that I found to be both challenging and inspiring. IMC :: Communicating Without Words Rough Notes IMC :: Design is Credibility Rough Notes
Wow, I just read this impassioned post (more like a combination of hard-hitting essay and a cry of desperation) by Adrian Warnock over in the U.K., and it struck to the heart of everything that’s been rumbling through my head the past few months. I too want it all. I hate all the individual extremes [...]
A number of years ago, my family was involved for a while in a church plant. Due to some differences in vision and priority, my parents told the founding pastor that they were planning on leaving the church and moving on. The pastor, who generally was an OK guy, then made this strange comment: “so [...]
I believe God is wanting to tell us in the Church that His Church is already out there. He’s already preparing hearts and minds. He’s already calling individuals and communities to come to Him. Dreams, visions, revelations — the atmosphere is pregnant with heavenly possibilities. We simply need to see where God is moving and [...]
