lifeasmission

I received my Economic Stimulus Payment the other day and wondered what I would do with it.  As I thought and prayed, I decided to join the ranks of those who called the whole premise of the program into question.
Feel free to accuse me for oversimplifying things if you want, but bottom line, the whole [...]

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Disclaimer:  This post is not (really) about cars.
On the heels of that last post, I thought I would throw this out there and say how glad I am that most of the folks in my life seem to be those who are really trying to press into the full implications of what following Jesus means [...]

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Update: Just after I posted this, I happened to come across a few relevant posts on this subject.  Be sure to check out David Fitch’s - “The Middle In: The Unique Missional Opportunity,” and Joe Thorn’s, “I Love the Suburbs” on a brand new blog about the gospel in the suburban context, SubText.
I hear people [...]

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My friend Carrie is always up on the coolest stuff. She posted this clip the other day about a documentary, “Maxed Out.” Looks like an important piece.

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Caught this over on the blog of Pete Rollins, author of How (not) To Speak of God. It’s an “image created by Nadia Pleasner as part of her Simple Living Campaign, a campaign designed to raise awareness of the Genocide in Darfur.” Hundreds of thousands of people have been killed in the last [...]

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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 caught wind of this from my friend Wess, and he has a teaser to offer, but I am happy to offer you, my loyal readership, the whole shabang!  If you have 20 minutes to spare… Eh, check that, you need to crave out 20 minutes to watch this video.  It is an informative and [...]

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This is a bit old by now, but I am just running across it.  Taken from the 2004 Emergent Theolgical Conversation, these are 19 theses from Dr. Walter Brueggemann which, in concise fashion, sum up the grand scope of the “cultural problem” for the church in the United States.  These 19 theses, especially number 12, [...]

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I came across this blog post today entitled, “Willow Creek Repents?” and I was immediately reminded of something I wrote a while back where I said that one characteristic of missional churches is their willingness to repent for the things they have said and done which they come to realize were off the mark. [...]

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From Leadership Blog: Out of UR
September 25, 2007
ATMs: Automatic Tithing Machines
How can you pass the plate to people who don’t carry cash? You can’t. So
the next big wave may be the “Giving Kiosk” in your church’s lobby.
“A lot of people no longer carry cash or a checkbook,” says Marty
Baker, pastor of Stevens Creek Church in [...]

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