I’ve been asked to expand on a previous discussion on some of the cultural changes we are seeing in the church as we move into a post-modern era at small group this week. The Emergent Church, the post-modern Christianity ideology, these are things I like to read about, but by no means do I have [...]
My parents came up to visit on Saturday and we all went out for Mexican food at El Riconcito. Here’s a cute little photo.
We had the first installment of the "Books and Beer" series last night at my place. Jesse, Nick, Brian, Sean, and myself all gathered to eat good food, drink good beer and discuss a great book, Christianity Rediscovered. We had a very good discussion, touching on salvation, missions, the raw gospel, among plenty of other [...]
I finally finished a little project I’ve been working on for the past couple of months. I’ve been redesigning the website for The Sound Community, a local church here in Bellingham, WA. You can check it out at http://www.thesoundcommunity.com.
I became acquainted with The Sound through a guy in my small group a couple years [...]
While visiting Brian McLaren’s website today, I noticed the following: 50 Free Advance Copies of "The Secret Message of Jesus"! To my surprise, I had stumbled upon an opportunity to possibly receive an advance copy of McLaren’s new book and be able to review it on this very blog. Of course I jumped at the [...]
Philippians 2:1-4 If then there is any encouragement in Christ, any consolation from love, any sharing in the Spirit, any compassion and sympathy, 2 make my joy complete: be of the same mind, having the same love, being in full accord and of one mind. 3 Do nothing from selfish ambition or conceit, but in [...]
(Sean, this goes out to you)
Because I’m a big nerd, I’ve been reorganizing my music on my computer and ripping a bunch of CDs for my iPod. I’m currently listening to The Get Up Kid’s last album, "Guilt Show." Man, it really sucks these guys broke up, because this is really good. It has been [...]
I thought I’d try one of those blog "series" things with one of my major hobbies/passions. This is the first post of however many it takes, documenting the home brewing process with Savage Brew.
Brian, my brewing partner, and I have been brewing for a little over a year now. Starting with a canned recipe, we’ve [...]
Earlier this week, Bono spoke at the annual National Prayer Breakfast to President Bush and members of Congress, along other religious leaders from various affiliations. He focused heavily on the idea of Jubilee and aid to victims of AIDS in Africa.
His voice is significant at this time and place because he is not holding [...]
Adam over at pomomusings has a new post on Brian MacLaren’s thoughts on homosexuality and Mark Driscoll’s biting response. I don’t really feel good about blogging on this because both sides make me sad. And from what Adam’s saying and the clear response to the article, I’d do better to just leave the article to personal [...]
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