30 Jun 2005 7

The Missionary God

Missional Thinking
1. The Missionary God
2. The Mission of God
3. A Missional Church
4. Missional Proclamation
As Southern Baptists we love the word “mission.” We cover the topic in our seminaries, host conferences about it in our churches and often talk about being “on mission.” In fact one of our magazines goes by that title. We have over [...]

29 Jun 2005 3

John Elway in the John

So I ran into John Elway tonight. Jen and I were eating at Chili’s and half way through our meal our server tells us “John Elway is here.” After five minutes of deliberation Jen and I agreed that John Elway was a sports star, and we were pretty sure he was a Superbowl quarterback. We [...]

28 Jun 2005 5

Zombie Dogs?

With the resurgence and new popularity of zombie movies, I thought I would share a somewhat related link. Kinda. Here’s a news story about a group of US scientists, aka “boffins,” who brought dogs back to life after being clinically dead for three hours.
(from news.com.au)

27 Jun 2005 5

Suck-a-Thumb

My wife grew up in Germany with an American mother and German father. Just like all German kids she was read this particular story, and similar stories. This is a scan from the actual book, accompanied by the translation.
The Story of Little Suck-a-Thumb
One day, Mamma said, “Conrad dear,
I must go out and leave you here.
But [...]

27 Jun 2005 10

Beautiful Truth

At the Younger Leaders Summit just prior to the Southern Baptist Convention, Chris Seay (pastor/author) spoke of truth. He actually spoke highly of truth and the need to communicate it, which is why I think it’s funny that his message made a few people uncomfortable. Okay, maybe they got off on the wrong foot when [...]