Instant Subversion...
- Saturday nights before preaching always feel like the calm before the storm. It's really weird.
- Back to the Future with the Beast. So great!
- The beast rocked his tryout for the Michigan Blue Jays this morning. #prouddad
Subversive Amps…
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I am good enough, smart enough, and…oh, never mind!
Posted on February 15, 2010 | View CommentsDo you want to know what I really hate? I really hate coming to the realization that I do not know what to do. I can not stand that feeling of helplessness that comes over me when I am out of my depths. I had... -
What is Community?
Posted on January 18, 2010 | View CommentsCommunity. It’s a buzz-word. It’s a television sit-com. It’s a longing in our hearts. But what is it? What does community mean? There have been books, long books, written on the subject. There have been many sermons preached. There have been many university seminars given.... -
Who leads this whole thing?
Posted on June 13, 2008 | View CommentsThe one questiont that I have been wrestling with in conversation with a friend and as a result of reading The Forgotten Ways is the issue of authority. What does it mean? Who is in authority? Is there leadership anymore? What does it all look... -
The Forgotten Ways, Part 8
Posted on June 5, 2008 | View CommentsIt's hard to imagine a few weeks ago when I sat down with my friend Doug at the Bean and he encouraged me to read Allelon.org's blogs about the missional church that it would have led to a month of thinking more deeply about what it means to be the church. The next day I walked into the library at Michigan Theological Seminary and grabbed a little book called The Forgotten Ways. This is post eight, the last chapter of the book: Communitas, not Community.