Monthly Archives: March 2010
Blast from the Past – Founding thoughts of Our Missional Heart
I’ve been chatting with a new online friend about how the Thingy (the missional community Wendy and I are a part of) came to be. The last letter I wrote him got me all nostalgic so I went back to … Continue reading
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Social Justice vs. Evangelism – Ed Stetzer’s Missional Question for the Week
Every Monday Ed Stetzer, president of Lifeway Research, has been posting a question for missional bloggers to wrestle with. I love trying to answer them, and reading other peoples answers because they force me to think through and further define what I believe. … Continue reading
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Clarifying My Definition of Justice
Do you learn about yourself as you talk with other people? It happens to me all the time. My thoughts are fuzzy and then I talk it out with friends and all of a sudden everything is clear. The Thingy (the missional community … Continue reading
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My Kids Uncensored
And now for something completely different… Purely to entertain myself, I shall now interview my three children and give you there responses…unedited. Me: What is your favorite thing to do in the world? Logan (who is 3): I goin eat. Julianna … Continue reading
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What is Salvation? – Part Two – Answering Ed Stetzer’s Missional Question
Every Monday morning Ed Stetzer (president of Lifeway Research) puts out a question for missional bloggers. This Monday his question was on the role of justice in salvation and the phrase “God is working outside the church.” Yesterday I tried to … Continue reading
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What is Salvaton? – Answering Ed Stetzer’s Missional Question
There is an amazing conversation going on right now around the term “missional.” Every Monday Ed Stetzer (president of Lifeway Research) posts a question for missional thinkers to answer. Yesterday his question was on the topic of salvation. It is … Continue reading
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Clarifying My Voice
I ask all the ministry leaders I coach to work through Leadership Challenge by Kouzes and Posner with me (I spelled their names right because I have the book in front of me…sorry again Stezer…I mean Stetzer). I meet with them weekly … Continue reading
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Leadership? – The Conclusion
You see kids, I grew up as church rat. My mom claims I attended my first worship service when I was three weeks old. Growing up I did it all: choir, handbells, RA’s, GA’s (in Jr. High I was the only boy … Continue reading
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God is Working Outside the Church? – Althought not personally invited, still joining Ed Stetzer’s conversation about Missional Church
You see kids, Ed Stetzer (the head of Lifeway Research, author, blogger, and popular speaker on the missional church) has been facilitating a conversation on his blog about what it means to be “missional.” On Monday’s he poses a question and then … Continue reading
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3 things I love and 3 three things that make me go GRRRR!
Blogging is a little weird right now. I’m involved in a ton of stuff and it consumes most of my thoughts. I’m pondering things all day and night, but I can’t really write about any of it. Partially because it is … Continue reading
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