Archive for June, 2008
Ben Arment + New Blog
= awesome.
Ben Arment, paid me a HUGE compliment on his blog the other day. Coincidentally, the next day, LifeChurch featured Ben’s blog on their blog saying how awesome he is – so maybe I’ll get some name recognition from that. Really, he is way too kind and I’m totally humbled and encouraged by his compliments. [...]
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Francis’ Crazy Building Project
I AM INSANELY CRAZY ABOUT THIS POST.
I LOVE WHAT Cornerstone Simi is doing, and I think their project REEKS! of biblicalness and good stewardship.
Instead of building a $50 Million building, they’re saving money, building a park and amphitheatre, interacting with their community, giving away a lot of their money to help people. And they’re influencing [...]
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Evangelism ~= Telemarketing
Street evangelism is interesting. It totally doesn’t work in the US (although I think it sometimes does), but there are evangelical groups that insist on doing it, and believe that the very low rate of return is because the world’s heart is hard.
While the world’s heart may be hard, trying to reach people using street [...]
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I feel like Christians are messed-up, we’re getting it wrong, I think part of the solution is rethinking how we’re doing church. Not everyone agrees with me on this – it seems like people think we’re doing okay. Here’s a video from Scott Hodge that may change their minds.
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We think of brands as products. But the idea of branding is actually useful in many areas of study. The science of Branding is based on Psychology and how our brains work. It turns out that we associate feelings and words with specific things in our brains – this affects our image of a brand, [...]
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The Missionary Position
Growing up, I wanted to be a missionary. I read the AWESOME, amazing miracle stories about what God did overseas and I wanted in on that action. Plus, I wanted to be a top notch Christian. Growing up, it seemed like to be the best you had to be a pastor or missionary. So I [...]
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the bathroom.
My landlord is a clean freak. Super clean freak. Like, I have to use a special place mat on top of the place mat on the table, to eat. And I have to keep my room clean. (to be fair, he’s trying to sell the house), but I have to keep it clean every [...]
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In my last post I assumed we’re not very good Christians, and asked for reasons why you think that came to be. I realize many may disagree with my premise! I’ll try to state some of my argument for that belief below:
When I was in the Horizon School of Evangelism, in San Diego (I miss [...]
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My Passion is for the Church. I feel that we’ve gotten way off track. Blue Like Jazz, UnChristian (Lyons and Kinnaman), They Like Jesus but Not the Church (Dan Kimball), and many other books have convinced me of this – not to mention my own experience.
The off-trackness is: we’re nothing like Jesus. At least I’m not. I don’t love [...]
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Living in a Van Soon
So I just bought a new van. Well, new to me. It’s a 1994 dodge caravan (a picture would be nice, jesse). 128K miles (pretty good!) good tranny, small oil leak, good AC, it’s good. Also it’s bright red and a little small.
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