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Speaking of blogs …
I now have another one. We’re required to publish our assignments to a blog for my class on Transforming Contemporary Culture at Fuller Seminary. I didn’t want to bog this space down with class reflections and book reviews, but if you’d like to join in that discussion, feel free to check out my other blog…
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No one cares …
I wouldn’t wear it, but that’s just because I’ve never looked good in brown and pink women’s shirts … Via: Ben Arment
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Those crazy things you learn in seminary
Today I learned my high school teacher had it wrong. I’ve always pronounced the Greek letter pi as “pie”. That’s how my math teachers taught me to say it. Today, I learned it’s pronounced “pee”. I don’t know why. It just is. Now I’ve got to figure out why it’s different (for my own curiosity’s…
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Progress comes from the outside
Seth Godin has a great post on why culture gets ‘stuck’. He shows how it works with music, french food and schools, but you can also easily apply it to churches, community groups and any organization that includes people (yeah…what doesn’t?). You may already read his blog. I know a lot of people do. But…
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Link roundup
Here are a few interesting links – just in time for a little weekend reading. + Tim Keller on what it takes for a church to become a reproducing church. (You’ve got to give up something) + Chris Elrod tells how totals don’t tell the whole picture in the life of a church. He also…
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Care, risk, dream, expect
From J.R. Woodward’s blog: “The Missionary Heart: Cares more than some think is wise.Risks more than some think is safe.Dreams more than some think is practical.Expects more than some think is possible.”
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Mastery
“Until you master yourself, you have no business trying to master the world. Gordon MacDonald has written: ‘Many years ago I learned their dirtiest, most crabbed secret. That their passion to change the world derived from the fact that they could not change themselves.’” – Bob Roberts Jr. in Transformation: How Glocal Churches Transform Lives…
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The power to change
Yesterday was the first day of orientation at Fuller Seminary. It’s refreshing and exciting to see things ramping up. Hearing from Richard Mouw, the seminary’s president, and some of the School of Theology faculty really has me ready to jump into the classes. It’s exciting to have the opportunity to learn more about Christ and…
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Real religion
I was catching up on some email today when I landed on these verses in a devotional sent by a friend: “Dear friends do you think you’ll get anywhere in this if you learn all the right words but never do anything? Does merely talking about faith indicate that a person really has it? For…
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When things go wrong
Don’t you just hate it when you’re trying to show the world how nice and strong a sword is and it breaks and stabs you? I know I do.
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Like Macs? Dress the part.
Just found a creative post at LiveClever (via Lifehacker) about how to dress like a Mac. Want to fit in with the cool, trendy, slightly smug Mac user of today? Now you’ll know exactly how to fit the part. For me, I’m still mainly shopping at Gap and Old Navy and avoiding $90 jeans. Hopefully…
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Go
“The time for getting people to come to church is over. It is time to get people to come to Christ … Replace centripetal evangelism that tries to draw outsiders in with centrifugal evangelism that drives insiders out.”– Leonard Sweet
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Beyond the box
“I made a distinction today between packaged truth and experienced truth. I think we’re real good at packaging truth in the church. We have our systematic theologies and three-point sermons with alliterations. But maybe what people respond to is truth that is more unplugged and more unpackaged. People respond to stories and stories are experienced…
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Lessons learned, part III
I’m on a roll.Here are Bob Franquiz’s thoughts six years after planting Calvary Fellowship in Miami Lakes, FL.
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Rejection
I’ve decided to start collecting rejection letters. No, it’s not an odd, self-depreciating hobby. In truth, I don’t have enough of them. God has opened doors in amazing ways since I graduated from college. Jobs have come where I needed them and He’s allowed me to be in some pretty awesome places. But as Grete…
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