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Elders Part 2: Making Decisions about Making Decisions
Most of the time, when men become elders, they have very little idea of what things are going to be like. What should they expect in meetings? What’s expected from them outside of the meeting room? What kinds of questions are … Continue reading
Posted in Community, Ecclesiology, leadership, Practical Theology
Tagged church, ecclesiology, elders, elderships, leadership, meetings, shepherds
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Sojourners Calls Out the Emergent Church on Race
This friday, Sojourners will release its May issue, and it certainly has more anticipation built up than I can imagine is typical for the monthly magazine. That’s in part in great part to the cover art, which is a pretty … Continue reading
City of Refuge
Stone by stone, a community built. A city of refuge manned By the priests of God. Hebron, Where the bones of faith’s father Wait to welcome fearful children. Hebron, Where sword-wielding priests Shelter the blood-stained innocent Who in desparation Fly … Continue reading
Posted in Free Verse, Poetry
Tagged church, ecclesiology, grace, guilt, justice, preaching
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Achan Again
I was going to post on something else today, but my reading in Project 4:4 for today held another little reference to Achan, who I still had on the brain from yesterday. This bit in 22:20 really caught my ear: … Continue reading
Posted in Bible Study, Community, Devotional
Tagged Bible Study, church, Community, project 4:4, scripture
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NY Times Column on The Return of Evangelical Social Justice Efforts
Link: NY Times Column on The Return of Evangelical Social Justice Efforts Larry James posted a link to this column by Nicholas Kristof on his blog, and I thought it was a very good description of some trends I’ve been … Continue reading
Two Sermons
I’ve been trying to keep the Sermons page of the site updated whenever I preach, but there are a couple of sermons lately that I wanted to note, but hadn’t had the chance to work into the site yet, and won’t … Continue reading
Have Great Retreat: Check
Saturday morning, (with heavy hearts), we took off for our fall retreat. I love a good retreat, which gives us time to hear from the word, to get some space from our normal routines, and just play around and hang … Continue reading
We’re working on putting together promotions stuff for something we’re calling project 4:4, which is a daily bible reading project (the whole bible through in a year). Anybody have any feedback on which of these you like best? (The scripture … Continue reading