the measure of success…

W. David Phillips of “backyardmissionary.com” had an interesting post where, as a church planter, he talked about “re-imagining success”.
He said, “At my last doctoral class with Len Sweet last week, he posed a question to us that went something like this: Provide for me the metaphors that will describe how we measure success in the [...]

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Becoming the Authentic Church

In a little booklet called “Becoming the Authentic Church” from Church of the Savior in Washington, D. C., Pastor Gordon Cosby and Kayla McClung make this statement: “…How to become so much like Jesus that our very way of life comforts the world’s brokenhearted and confronts the world’s broken systems… is a key question for [...]

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the funeral thing…

Funerals? Are you kidding me? You’re going to talk about funerals? Isn’t that just a little morbid and depressing???

Well, it’s not really about funerals, per se… it’s just about an idea I had while I was at my last funeral.
To tell you the truth, this is about the music of your life…
Whenever I [...]

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the “new community” of Christ…

In his book “Life Together” Dietrich Bonhoeffer develops this amazing thought -
“Innumerable times a whole Christian community has broken down because it had sprung from a wish dream. The serious Christian, set down for the first time in a Christian community, is likely to bring with him a very definite idea of what Christian life [...]

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Tolle’s “A New Earth” Book Review

Greg Boyd, who is Senior Pastor of Woodland Hills church, has an insightful and thorough review of Eckhart Tolle’s new book, “A New Earth”.  Over two million people have signed up for a 10 week, on-line course hosted by Tolle and fronted by Oprah to discuss the concepts found in this book, so it’s pretty [...]

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Remembering your future…

16 times in the book of Deuteronomy the word “remember” is used. Remember, remember, remember, remember…
I think the reason it’s important to remember is because it sets the expectations of our hearts in respect to any challenge that we face. And, although I don’t want to be the bearer of bad news, [...]

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Expect A Miracle!

OK, so.. I’m driving to work yesterday morning and all of a sudden I see this sign.  Now, usually, this signboard is advertising real estate for sale, but today it’s different.  And it strikes me totally different. So I pull over and take a picture of it with my phone.
What an awesome message – Expect [...]

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One Prayer

I came across a very cool idea today – it’s called “One Prayer”.  Basically the gist of it is that churches are supposed to try to answer this question for themselves: “What would you pray if God would answer One Prayer for the Church at large?“, and then they preach one local, live message on [...]

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Ken Lee

You’ve probably heard by now of the Bulgarian Idol contestant who decided to sing a cover of the Mariah Carey song “Ken Lee”. If you’re scratching your head saying, “What?”, you’re not alone; the judges were like, “Don’t you mean “Without You”?
Besides being SUPREMELY funny (and that alone is worth the price of [...]

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Top 10 Tips for Living

One of our local rags had an article by Dan Millman, author of the book “Body Mind Mastery”. I have to admit that I’ve never heard of Mr. Millman, or his books, but the article included his “Top Ten Tips for Living”, and those caught my attention. I’ve re-read them and thought about [...]

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