From the monthly archives:

April 2005

Saltwater

April 21, 2005

So I had a few meetings today, one of which was lunch with Steve McCoy. When we got to the restaurant I realized I left my phone in the car. So I walked back to get it and Steve got us a table. By the time I came back inside Steve had ordered waters for [...]

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Hotel Rwanda

April 17, 2005

"I think if people see this footage, they’ll say ‘Oh, my God, that’s horrible.’ And then they’ll go on eating their dinners."- Jack In 1994 one million people were murdered in Rwanda because they were of the wrong tribe. As it was happening the western world closed their eyes, and as Jack said, they went [...]

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Confessional

April 15, 2005

While our young churches are working to be missional, incarnational, relational etc. it’s important for us to remember that the church has always been/must always remain confessional. Being confessional means that our community of faith is united around commonly held beliefs that serve to identify who and what we are by explaining what we believe [...]

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Southernizing

April 12, 2005

Yesterday Steve and I drove to Southern Seminary. I haven’t been here in 5 years, so this is bringing back some great memories. While here we’ll be talking with potential church planters for our association, seminary professors, some friends and hopefully some local pastors. Steve’s driving, so pray for us.

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Presbyterian Pastor

April 7, 2005

Tim is one of the guys I have been closest to in my life as a Christian. We were converted around the same time, went to Moody together, and entered the pastorate at the same time (though on opposite ends of the continent). He sent me this picture today showing off the newest addition to [...]

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Future Churches

April 5, 2005

Mark Driscoll writes that churches tomorrow will be much like the churches of yesterday and today. He says, Churches that embrace their traditions over their children will die slow and painful deaths. Churches that embrace cultural relevance over biblical faithfulness will in time become heretics like Hymenaeus. The majority of small and struggling churches will [...]

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The Emerging Church II

April 5, 2005

I want to share another thought on this topic since there was so much conversation on the last post, and a number of you told me that exchange was helpful. I was talking with some friends this morning about the "emerging church" (ec) and explained that neatly categorizing the conversation is more difficult than some [...]

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