A little book that teaches you when to quit! What a wonderful concept because we are told over and over again that we should not quit. I mean really we have all seen the picture of the frog in the birds mouth with it’s hands on the birds neck with the line “Never Quit!” IsContinue reading “the dip by Seth Godin”
Category Archives: Missional Community
Consuming Fire by Third Day
What’s so uncool about cool churches?
Originally posted on the gospel side:
Unintended Consequences: How the “relevant” church and segregating youth is killing Christianity. I recently spent six-months doing a rotation as a hospital chaplain. One day I received a page (Yes, hospitals actually still use pagers). Chaplains are generally called to the rooms of people who look ill: People gray…
The Gift of Being Yourself by David G. Benner
“Spiritual transformation does not result from fixing our problems. It results from turning to God in the midst of them and meeting God just as we are.” (page 67) David G. Benner opens up a topic most Christian think is taboo to show us it is the one thing we truly need to embrace toContinue reading “The Gift of Being Yourself by David G. Benner”
If the Church Were Christian By Philip Gulley
What if the church took following the example Christ gave us to be in the world was actually the way the church was? If we would take seriously the way Jesus lived and follow the example He gave us would we be able to contain the people seeking after God in the confines of theContinue reading “If the Church Were Christian By Philip Gulley”
A Good Neighbor: Benedict’s Guide to Community by Robert Benson
‘”Honor everyone, and never do to another what you would not want done to yourself,” we read in the Rule. “Love your neighbor as yourself,” we read in the Gospel.’ This quote from page 84 of A Good Neighbor is a summery of what it is to live in community. To be a neighbor, toContinue reading “A Good Neighbor: Benedict’s Guide to Community by Robert Benson”
God in the Alley by Greg Paul
“However, these stories of my friends reveal a peculiar paradox: I am more likely to find Jesus revealed to me and through me in weakness than in strength, sinfulness than in purity, or doubt than in perfect faithfulness.” Greg Paul takes you on a ride through the streets of Toronto to meet and see Jesus.Continue reading “God in the Alley by Greg Paul”
Fairy tales…
“Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.” – C. K. Chesterton
Are There Limits on Diversity?
Originally posted on The Company of the Eudaimon:
Diversity. Good word. I’m a progressive, so I use the word a lot. But I’m wondering about the limits of diversity. We progressives prefer not to think about the fact that—as much as we like to think so in theory—in practice there’s no way to include everybody.…
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