lifeasmission

I had the good fortune of receiving an advance copy of Scot McKnight’s newest book, The Blue Parakeet: Rethinking How You Read the Bible from Zondervan who asked me to post a review, which I am happy to do.
Scot begins with the following assumption:
Everyone of us adopts the Bible and (at the same time) [...]

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I am the lone single person amongst a group of folks (7 couples) trying to figure out what it means and looks like to let what it means to be the church flow from our sharing of lives together.  A couple months ago we decided that we would spend a number of weeks hashing out [...]

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Caught something about “Walkable Neighborhoods” over on Joe’s blog today.  He pointed to walkscore.com - a site that will tell you how walkable your neighborhood is.  On the site, they have this to say about walkable neighborhoods…
Walkable neighborhoods offer surprising benefits to our health, the environment, and our communities.
Better health: A study in Washington State [...]

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Hahah… NT Wright is in my opinion the most amazing New Testament scholar out there. Today, while reading his most recent book, Surprised by Hope: Rethinking Heaven, the Resurrection, and the Mission of the Church, I came across this little ditty…
Communication theorists insist that for full human communication you need not only words [...]

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A full half year ago, I caught this over on my buddy Todd’s blog - 10 Ideas for living Missionally in the Suburbs (by Chris Smith) and have been meaning to blog about it ever since.  I now have 2 great reasons to finally do so.
First, I find myself smack dab in the middle of [...]

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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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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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Apparently Eric thinks I have nothing better to do (he may be right ;), so he tagged me for a random meme (some kind of list of questions that you saw somewhere else and you decided to answer. Then someone else sees them and does them and so on and so on).
Here are the rules:

Pick [...]

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I posted the other day about Telling God’s Story: Narrative Preaching for Christian Formation by John W. Wright.  I just finished and wanted to recommend it to anyone who cares for others in a pastoral sense or anyone who really wants to think critically about the purpose and identity of the church.  There is a [...]

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Prompted by my friend Billy, I picked up a new book by John W. Wright, Telling God’s Story: Narrative Preaching for Christian Formation. A student of Hauerwas and with commendations from Ray Anderson, Marva Dawn, and James K.A. Smith, I knew I’d like the book before I even cracked it open. I am [...]

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