Following Up on Nazarenes and Emergents
There has been lots of good discussion on this post and on plenty of other blogs regarding the statement released by the Board of General Superintendents on the Emerging Church. Having had some time to really reflect on the statement and to read so many different comments on it, I [...]
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Monday are for March Madness Ramblings
March 15, 2010The Nazarenes and the Emerging Church
March 10, 2010As a Nazarene pastor and someone who has participated for the better part of the last ten years in the emerging church conversation, I was really please yesterday to read the first official statement from the Board of General Superintendents (essentially our Bishops in the Nazarene World) regarding the emerging church. This statement was put [...]
My 500th Post!
February 3, 2010Do I really have this much to say?
I started blogging on February 14, 2006 and in the almost four years since I have now written 500 blog entries. That equates out to 125 a year or one about every three days. That is more discipline and consistency that my life has usually known, so for [...]
Third Culture Living – Moving Beyond Sunday Mornings
January 19, 2010Should the hour people are in worship on Sunday morning be the best hour of the week? It is a really interesting question when you stop and think about it. The question isn’t should it be a wonderful hour, or a refreshing or renewing time in God’s presence, the question is whether or not it [...]
Bruce Lee teaches us how to be Third Culture
January 14, 2010
In Dave Gibbons’ The Monkey and the Fish he talks extensively about the idea of us being third culture Christians. I have already posted a couple of reflections on what this means for us in the church here and here.
One of the ways Dave tries to communicate the essence of third [...]
Mondays are for New Years Ramblings
January 4, 2010Time to hit the ground running fast and furious today. Here are my predictions and thoughts for 2010.
(These are almost all guaranteed to be wrong, but it is worth a shot. You know how Paul in his letters would sometimes say, now this is a word from me, God didn’t tell me this, well have [...]
Why are there so many white people in my church?
December 30, 2009** This is the 2nd post in a series on the book The Monkey and the Fish by Dave Gibbons, find the 1st post here**
That is a question I have asked myself for virtually my whole life. Why are there so many white people in my church? Growing up in the DC area we went [...]
Deep Church #4 – Have Emergents Lost the Core of the Gospel?
December 16, 2009(This is the fourth post in a series examining the thoughts of Deep Church by Jim Belcher. Jim has written this book in an effort to offer a Third Way beyond the Emerging and Traditional Churches and the increasing divide between the two)
The most frequent charge I hear against the emerging church, leveled especially at [...]
The End is Nigh – The Didache and the Apocalypse
December 6, 2009For a month at the box office John Cusack has been working to save his family from the world wide apocalypse of 2012 rightly predicted by the end of the Mayan calendar and some New Age scholars. It certainly makes for a great movie trailer with Cusack driving his RV through Yellowstone as the whole [...]
Understanding Orthodoxy
November 21, 2009For the past week or two, through out conversation about bridging the gap between emergents and traditionalists there has been a lot of talk of understanding orthodoxy. Orthodoxy is simply right belief. We are orthodox in the church if we believe the right things. The question of course is what are the right things and [...]
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