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Sunday Should Be The Most Dangerous Day Of The Week

March 3rd, 2010 · 2 Comments

“There is no way we could ever pull that off.”
That’s a direct quote from a pastor friend of mine when he heard about our current series Sacred Rituals. He saw our trailer for the series and when he heard that we played that music while we shared communion as a church two [...]

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Tags: leadership · spiritual formation · theological ramblings

Sacred Rituals Trailer

February 4th, 2010 · 12 Comments

I completely stole this idea of the sermon series from Mark Batterson over at NCC. Here’s the trailer for the series we will start on February 21st. Come experience it with us.
Rick Stones said that if we got 20 comments on this post, he’ll sing a Gregorian Chant for us during [...]

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Tags: sermon series · spiritual formation · theological ramblings

Origins: earth

January 16th, 2010 · 1 Comment

And it was good…
All good theology starts with Genesis 1. That is, I think all good theology starts with the concept that God existed before the beginning and He created and what He created was good. Why?
Because God is good and the creation has His fingerprints all over it. It [...]

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Tags: spiritual formation · theological ramblings

25 Hours of Seeing God Work

August 3rd, 2009 · No Comments

Sunday, August 2
9.00 am
I’ve been up at the church for almost an hour now, listening to the worship team practice, smelling the eggs and sausage from the men’s breakfast. I didn’t go to the breakfast this morning. I normally do but today is going to be a long but an awesome day. [...]

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Tags: church & emergent musings · journal of a new lead pastor · spiritual formation

Silence

May 11th, 2009 · Comments Off

Yesterday we took a pretty big risk. Well…it felt like a risk at the time. It played out.
Instead of preaching/teaching on the discipline of silence, we just did it. We sat in silence for a little over 13 minutes. Afterwards, I kind of gave some pointers of how to [...]

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Tags: church & emergent musings · journal of a new lead pastor · leadership