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I saw this amazing TED presentation today (care of Presentation Zen’s Garr Reynolds). It was a Ukulele player named Jake Shimabukuro who made a great point about life in general. People just don’t expect much of the ukulele. Or the guy playing it for that matter. I thought, though, that this was probably true of…
Talking to people about this idea that theology is people who don’t hear God, I have heard many people say that the church wouldn’t be necessary. I wonder at that. I think the church would be just as necessary as it is today, maybe even more. Hearing comes from the word Church would look a…
I had two really awesome things happen yesterday. The first was that I got some private time with my best friend Johnny and we had a very productive and confrontational talk. I say this in the universal sense of the word of confrontation. Most people feel like confrontation is always bad, but with someone you…
I have been thinking about this past week at the Youth Specialties convention and especially about what Mark Yaconelli said about caring for our souls. I think I am going to start a charter of the Slow Club here. What a great reminder of taking care of our souls! I was reading this morning from…
It’s over and I am safely back home after an early morning drive. I am really glad I went. It was in some ways exactly what I thought and exactly what kept me from going in the past. Yet, I was really blessed to be there and would probably go again, given the chance. Here…
Today was a weird day for me. Most of my friends went to church instead of sessions this morning so I was on my own. My soul was still tender from yesterday and just walking into the main session room was pretty emotional. They started the session with an illusionist who escaped from a glass…
In looking at some of the characteristics in the church that lend themselves to tribes, I have seen some qualities that the church would benefit from but are, for the most part, lacking. Empower Members…. Glenn Kaiser said it best, the problem with most churches is that they want to pay someone to do something…
I am today the happy ebay winner of the Variax 500 Sunburst guitar! Pictured left, this guitar is really cool and I am really pumped about using it. If you know your guitars, the first thing you might notice is that it doesn’t have pick-ups. Instead this guitar has an on-board computer that models a…
I don’t often post anything about what I listen to. As a musician, (yes, I am one, though I forget sometimes) I listen to a wide variety of music from experimental stuff like Bjork and Mute Math to more mainstream stuff to jazz, etc. So today I share with you something that I can’t get…
We had our first run with the Lectio Divina this last Sunday night. I meant to get pictures before hand but it just didn’t work out. We took out all the lights and added about 50 candles. The only light we had was from candles and the projector. Yes, I know that is not what…
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