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

WARNING: Read With Discernment!

| January 9, 2009

Share I wonder how many blogs, if they were sold in Christian book stores, would receive one of these little labels at checkout? I am convinced mine would. When you go to the above link, be sure to scroll all the way down to see the list of books and authors they felt a need [...]

Rob Bell: The Gods Aren’t Angry #5

| July 7, 2008

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Rob Bell: The Gods Aren’t Angry #4

| June 21, 2008

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Rob Bell: The Gods Aren’t Angry #3

| June 19, 2008

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Rob Bell: The Gods Aren’t Angry #2

| June 17, 2008

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A Great Time to be Alive!

| April 15, 2008

Share You have been telling people that this is the Eleventh Hour. Now you must go back and tell the people that this is the Hour. And there are things that need to be considered: Where are you living? What are you doing? What are your relationships? Are you in right relation? Where is your [...]

Emergent, Emerging, Modern, Postmodern, Orthodox, Heresy, Liberal, Conservative, Baptist, Pentecostal, Mainline, Evangelical, Good, Evil, Pagan, Christian, Tony Jones, John MacArthur, Brian McLaren, Bible Answer Man (Hank Hanegraaff), The French, The English, Black, White, Slut, Pure, In, Out, Us, Them, …And So Many More Labels!

| February 25, 2008

Share OK, so here is my vent. I fully realize that it is in our human nature to label and define and fragment just about everything into tidy boxes so we can then pass judgment, create an “in” and an “out”, an us and them. But just because I get it does not mean I [...]

Dad, We Built it Together as it Emerged

| February 11, 2008

Share Tree houses and the emerging church have a lot in common. This is a picture of my son and the tree house we built—together. It stands about 7 feet off the ground and it began with a dream. You see, we have this very large tree in our suburban backyard that ached for a [...]

Emerging’s Fluid Conversation of Grey

| December 24, 2007

Share  “There is a very good reason why it’s difficult to pin the Emerging Church down on certain issues. Simply put, the Emerging Church is an evolving movement, a fluid conversation. … The EC’s slippery nature, as some might put it, also hints at its postmodern beginnings…..Conversation is good. That’s the way many in the [...]

A New Kind of Tribe: Baptism, Communion, Money

| December 21, 2007

Share Piggy backing a little on what Jonathan Brink dreamed, I envision three aspects also being redeemed in Tribe. All three help combat our felt-need for religious control: Baptism: When someone believes and recognizes the forgiveness they have in Jesus, the entire community gathers down at the river to witness and celebrate in baptism. It [...]

The Baby and the Bath Water

| December 5, 2007

Share A good friend of mine sat down across from me as we sipped a great cup of coffee. We love getting together and just talking Jesus, life, family, soccer (our boys both play) and everything in between. This particular conversation steered in the direction of a friend of his who wants nothing to do [...]

Emerging and Brokaw

| December 3, 2007

ShareTom Brokaw, ABC Nightly News, reported on the emerging church movement…unfortunately there is a focus on politics and the “elders” opposition, but is an interesting video none-the-less… God has 4,235,843 friends on MySpace