Just Thinking

So, this morning my friend Robin sent me a link to a cartoonist’s blog name Jon Birch.  I spent a few minutes looking over some of his past posts; chuckling at times, thinking at times, and even getting a little irritated.  His work is definitely thought provoking and very difficult to dismiss.  You should check it out!

One of his cartoons caught my eye and made me think about a conversation I had with my friend Tim a few weeks ago. Read more…

Never Stop Learning

I’m in Eagle, Idaho this weekend to speak at a retreat on Contemplative Prayer, and I’ve been enjoying the chance to hangout with my good friend, Robin and his family.   One of the things I enjoy the most about Robin is that even after years of ministry and life experience and a doctorate in ministry he still approaches life with a learner’s heart.  Every time I visit Robin and spend time looking around his library, I always go home with a big list of books I’d like to get from Amazon, and an even longer list of questions I need to ponder.

So what do you do to keep learning?   Read more…

Hey there,

The Tangible Kingdom

I have been enjoying my friend, Robin’s, chapter summaries of “The Tangible Kingdom” by Hugh Halter and Matt Smay, so I thought I would point my readers to his blog as well.  He’s done such a nice job of capturing the essence of each chapter that I thought others would enjoy it, and hopefully it will encourage you to get a copy of this book for yourself.

So head over to Robin’s blog, Spiritual Regurgitation’s to read the summaries.

Blessings,

So a few weeks ago I was down in the states for a friends wedding.  My buddy Aaron and his fiance, Joanna, were scheduled to exchange their vows, and commit themselves to each other for the rest of their lives and they felt that I should be present to witness this occasion.

Some people would have seen my role as a legal witness, others would have seen it as a spiritual witness, but I feel that my role was to look sexy in my tux (A role I feel I accomplished completely.) Read more…

I just got an email from my friend Robin about a project he’s been involved with for a little while now.   I have been very excited for what he is trying to see happen, and I love seeing people within the church trying new ways to remove the walls that seem to keep the Kingdom locked up.   I would strongly recommend taking a few minutes to take a look at the site they’ve set up and read through some of the materials they’ve got on their site.   You never know what dreams might be ignited in your own heart to start something similar in your community?  Who knows?  Maybe it’s the start of a bigger movement than even Robin visualized?

Blessings,

Okay, so my buddy Robin Dugall got mad at me (okay, so he might just have made a comment on my facebook, but I’m overly sensitive) for not posting to my blog, so I thought I had better update my blog a bit before he unleashes a can of …  well, you know what comes in the can.

At the moment I’m down in Florida at a church planting conference.   I would tell you all the name, but I’m afraid I can’t remember it … I think it’s the exponential something or other.   So far it has been a pretty good experience.   I started the whole thing off with a seminar on creative communication led by Mark Batterson (he wrote “In a Pit With a Lion on a Snowy Day”) and it wasn’t too bad.  Today I got to listen to Erwin McManus chatting about the ways in which the church in North America has created, not only an irrelevant culture, but a way in which to make relevant people irrelevant.  I then enjoyed a presentation by Alan Hirsch that was primarily a repetition of the information I’ve already read in his books, and then a little trite information from a vineyard pastor in Boise, Idaho.