lifeasmission

Well, thanks to this lovely crew (not pictured, but equally awesome are: Jon O., Greg J., and Russell M.  I managed to get all my stuff in my new home yesterday afternoon.

And the unpacking, sorting, and arranging has commenced.
I am in need of a fridge, some furniture, and some other odds and ends (Bueller, Bueller…), [...]

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This is a brief piece I wrote for the Living Hope community as we continue to explore what it means to embrace a missional identity as a church community - specifically with regard to how we understand the place of children.
The first church I served at as a pastor was very large.  We had all [...]

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God has done some kind of number on me.  In days gone by I would have described me (and I am pretty sure others would have as well) as a guy who primarily loves to talk.  While that may still be true, I am way more interested in listening these days.  Wednesday night, therefore, was [...]

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I have been sitting on this post for a while, but thought it related enough to the previous one to go ahead and throw it out there.
Recently, some friends here in Memphis have been discussing the possibility of moving towards engaging in a lifestyle of intentional community.  This is an unfamiliar topic to most, so [...]

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This blog post is part of a SynchroBlog - below you will see the names of about 50 folks who are all posting today on the question, “What is Missional?” This is an effort launched by Rick Meigs to try and help people get a handle on where others are coming from when they [...]

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Besides being a gratuitous reference to Dupree’s Self-Help spiel in “You, Me and Dupree,” it’s the best title I could come up with for a post full of randomness and fun linkages. You’ve been warned, no coherency is to be found here!
Listen to this song, it’s awesome.

I hurt my knee last week and it is [...]

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In conjunction with my previous 2 posts, I was reminded of this post which I titled, but never wrote. It is something I have been thinking about for a while and maybe now see a bit better, or feel a bit stronger, what I meant when I thought it up.
There is something in each [...]

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I’ll leave it up to you to make the final decision on how related these two thoughts I have been having are…
At Living Hope, we have been talking about and trying to get to a place where some of the practices that typically happen on a Sunday morning (baby dedications and baptisms for example), happen [...]

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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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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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