lifeasmission

I was listening the other day to a message given by a teaching pastor that I respect.  He was teaching on baptism, specifically whether or not aspiring members needed to share the official doctrinal stance of the church before being accepted as members.  Rather than addressing that question directly, he decided to take a round-about [...]

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I LOVE THE FALL.  There is just no two ways about it, I look forward to it all year long and it always ends far too quickly.  Today was the first day of fall and it was a great start.
For starters, I found my Tracy Chapman album (New Beginning) from college.  I played this thing [...]

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Quote from Christianity Today article, “A Deeper Relevance“…
It is precisely the point of the liturgy to take people out of their worlds and usher them into a strange, new world—to show them that, despite appearances, the last thing in the world they need is more of the world out of which they’ve come. The world [...]

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Our church community is spending three months wrestling in and through the Psalms.  It is our hope that this time would be much more than a simple sermon series, but a season of spiritual formation for us as a community.  As part of that desire, we have created a blog and various people are posting [...]

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I made me an invention today - The Ultimate Cookie.  This is going to seem really complicated to those of you who don’t cook much, but believe me, it is much easier than you might think. Just try it.
Step 1: Purchase your average store brand frosted cookie.

Step 2: Purchase Oatmeal Cream Pies

Step 3: Delicately open [...]

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Lost in ponderings of Heaven this afternoon, I had this thought…

The “Heaven” held out to us in Scripture is not a place or state where everything is finally the way I want it, but a place or state where everything is finally the way God wants it.  It is the fulfillment of all that God [...]

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I don’t really like it when a full week goes by and I don’t have a chance to blog - it’s like I get creatively constipated and then I don’t know where to begin.
Aside from just getting back into the swing of things and playing catch up since returning from Afghanistan, I have been busy [...]

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My friend Matthew beat me to it, but a few weeks ago he, his intern Ben Kaplowitz, and I traveled up to Philly together. We were there to take part if a day-long seminar on what a missional engagement of the suburbs is all about and it was a helpful discussion. Contrast of [...]

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Caught this bumper sticker on a run around midtown the other day - wish I had it.

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I could never do justice in a blog post to all that I have seen, felt, and been a part of for the last 10 days or so as I traveled with a small team of others to Kabul, Afghanistan. So, rather than giving you my journal of the trip, let me try to [...]

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