From the monthly archives:

October 2008

A quote I wrote in May of 2001 popped up again on Christianity Today’s Out of Ur. Here’s what I said.

“Conversion in the U.S. seems to mean we’ve exchanged some of our shopping at Wal-Mart, Blockbuster, and Borders for the Christian Bookstore down the street. We’ve taken our lack of purchasing control to God’s store, where we buy our office supplies in Jesus’ name.”

Here’s the original post. Give me some grace, it was 2001.. yes and parts that talk about authority make me cringe. I don’t think I’ve actually said that again since 2001, but maybe I should.

Thanks to Skye to hanging on to that little quote for so long. Skye if you read this, we’re both speaking at the NPC in San Diego in Feb. let’s have a conversation. I’m interested to read Skye’s book that he’s writing on consumerism.

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Come Hang with me in Tulsa in April

October 30, 2008

April 27-29th my friend Jonathon Reitz (of the Leadershed fame) will be hosting a Leading Church B conference in Tulsa. So much of leadership presented by publishers, conferences and speakers is based on a leadership style few people actually have. This is Leadership for the rest of us. This is NOT for everyone. Everyone is [...]

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Band name meme

October 30, 2008

Bevan has an entertaining game to come up with your hypothetical Band’s name, album title and cover art for your first album. You do that by: 1. Band Name: Random Wikipeda Link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random 2. Album Title: Random quote generator (take the last four words from the quote) Link: http://www.quotationspage.com/random.php3 3. Album Art: Flickr Interesting Photo: [...]

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Who am I going to be for Halloween? Hint number 1

October 29, 2008

Bevan and Evie can’t guess.

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Crickets

October 29, 2008

When a person says something uncomfortable or awkward the resulting silence is referred to as “Hearing crickets”. What is it called when a crickets says something uncomfortable or awkward?

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Riffing on Commitment

October 27, 2008

This morning I visited a message board of some youth worker friends and saw a conversation about commitment. I thought I’d riff on it for a bit on the message board, then I wondered what the readers of my blog might think. What do you think? i think this is often about community as well. [...]

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Stuff I’ve read recently

October 27, 2008

Jimmy asks, “If I call Myself a Christian, Does it Associate me with this…?” I was wondering myself, actually. Too bad he missed this little beauty. Michael Toy wrote a very good poem. I’m not a poem guy, but this spoke to me. The LA Times says that Robert Schuller ousts his son for the [...]

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I can’t get enough Bill Mallonee

October 25, 2008

One of the greatest songwriters of our day, who is by and large unknown. The genius isn’t in his guitar playing, but in his lyrics. He writes lyrics you think with my friends. Unfortunately, folks who love him are also crappy videographers. The youtube footage of this guy is tough to come by and often [...]

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Classic Dave Grohl

October 23, 2008

Foo Fighters on Craig Kilborne. just good old fun. Dave Grohl hits the solo just about note for note. This is mostly just fun,not beauty. Stairway to heaven Then there’s this with Will Ferrell. (warning: a bit of language)

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Eikon, a quote and the voices in my head

October 21, 2008

As a person leading a local community hoping to live I have a lot of voices (from the outside) telling me to do things differently than I am. It seems to me, that leadership has something to do with distinguishing between the right and wrong voices echoing with my grey matter and what to do [...]

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