A Mending Shift

a bird sings, not because if has an answer to give, but because it has a song to sing … this is my song

The Muslims Are Coming! The Muslims Are Coming!

| April 29, 2009

ShareSo I am really intrigued to hear your take/reaction to the below video: [I ask that you not continuing reading until you watch the embedded video] If I were honest, I felt like that video could have been shown to people in Europe during the Crusades as a call to arms. All I heard was [...]

Stuff and Bread

| April 17, 2009

Share Probably the two greatest statements I heard at the Emerging Church Conference. Both of these were words of wisdom that Alexie Torres-Fleming’s mom told her growing up: “Whatever you have — that you do not need — does not belong to you.” A far cry from our consumerism and American Dream mentality. This is [...]

Made in China: From the Lips of an Eight-Year-Old

| April 13, 2009

Share Last night my wife shared with me something my eight-year-old son said. Being in the second grade, the world of words and reading are opening up to him. As he was cleaning up his toys he realized a pattern, “Mom, everything says it is Made in China . . . [thoughtful pause] . . [...]

Worldviews: Ours and God’s

| January 19, 2009

ShareThis is how we view the world: I believe this is how God views the world: (So I have been debating whether or not to include my verbal 2-cents or just let the images speak by themselves. After much internal debate between all the voices in my head, we decided to give our 1-cent: Though [...]

From Around the World

| November 14, 2008

Share —————————————————————– Croatia Christians in Croatia who get it. —————————————————————– Scotland The Church of Scotland, after seeing a huge cultural shift and church decline, came to a place of seeing the urgent need for relational/missional communities of faith. The official church is saying “we have to change.” —————————————————————– Canada/Uganda “A consortium of churches in Ontario [...]

From Around the World

| November 7, 2008

Share —————————————————————– United States Barack Obama’s life in pictures. —————————————————————– Australia A Cafe-Church in Melbourne that encourages conversation around deep questions and doubts. —————————————————————– China An article that looks at the House Church Movement in China which entails 30-50million people after 25 years of persecution. It also looks at Watchman Nee’s influence and the roots [...]