lifeasmission

Immediately after I finished my taxes this morning and submitted them online, I caught this video over on Josh’s blog and wanted to repost it.  Of course there are all sorts of issues bound up with a video like this and I don’t mean to oversimplify it, but I find it incredibly convicting in terms of how [...]

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Had an interesting experience last night. There is a local church which hosts a basketball game once a week as an outreach. Christians from the church and the area (if they have a “membership”) have the opportunity to bring their friends to play basketball and to hear a short devotional. Enter the [...]

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I haven’t had time yet to take my own shots, but here’s a great one of downtown Memphis that I found.

(ht: piwojasne)
I made it down to Memphis this past [...]

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I turned 29 this past Sunday. I had the opportunity to visit my family in California right at the end of February and got to celebrate with them. Then, this past week my brother Alex came in from NYC to see me, or maybe it had something to do with his girlfriend down [...]

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I got an email today from Sojourners Magazine. It was asking me to sign a “statement calling on the U.S. church to repent for the war and to commit ourselves to a new path toward peace.”
I couldn’t wait to do so and am throwing this out there in the hopes that others may want to [...]

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Although I haven’t had a chance to pick up the book yet, I did just finish reading the first chapter of Tony Jones’ new book, The New Christians.  You can check out his blog, the book, and read the first  chapter here. 
Tony and Emergent Village have come under some serious fire from all sorts [...]

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I can’t ever remember seeing something like this as long as I have lived in Ohio. My guess… There’s gonna be a lot of babies born in about 9 months!
 

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In his most recent book, Surprised by hope: Rethinking Heaven the Resurrection, and the Mission of the Church, N.T. Wright says this about the gospel,
…the gospel, in the New Testament, is the good news that God (the world’s creator) is at last becoming king and that Jesus, whom this God raised from the dead, is [...]

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