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Sunday, October 31, 2010
Saturday, October 30, 2010
Image by Vicki's Nature via Flickr25-26"If you decide for God, living a life of God-worship, it follows that you don't fuss about what's on the table at mealtimes or whether the clothes in your closet are in fashion. There is far more to your life than the food you put in your stomach, more to your outer appearance than the clothes you hang on your body. Look at the birds, free and unfettered,...
Friday, October 29, 2010
Image by wallyg via Flickr D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones in Preaching & Preachers;What is the chief end of preaching? I like to think it is this. It is to give men and women a sense of God and His presence…I can forgive a man for a bad sermon, I can forgive the preacher almost anything if he gives me a sense of God, if he gives me something for my soul, if he gives me the sense that, though he is...
Thursday, October 28, 2010
Jeremy, who planned this Twitter Feed, has posted some results from the exercise to show what pastors do on a pretty random, non-Sunday day.First, when all of the Tweets were made into a Wordle and this is what came out:That's cool.Also, the following is Jeremy's comments on this:Meetings are one of the top words pastors used. Whether it is meeting with a student, parent, committee, teacher, youth…we...
Worked out to be about 8.5 - 9 hours of church-related work...plus the whole "community involvement" time spent in two different play practices. You can see the whole Twitter Feed from the #pastors24 experiment on Twitter. What this worked out to be is a time-tracking exercise via Twitter and I think it was good for me to see the various things I do throughout the day...but also to see just how...
Image via WikipediaHere in Alaska we have a hotly contested battle for a Senate seat with three candidates in the race running just about even. But each of them has their problems.The Democrat, Scott McAdams suffers from...well...being a Democrat in a very Republican state...that and a lack of experience beyond being Mayor of a small town.The Republican, Tea Party-Approved candidate, Joe Miller...
Wednesday, October 27, 2010
Image via Wikipedia“Believing in a gospel that has few earthly consequences is, ironically, just the sort of state our secularist neighbors would wish us to sustain. They, too, are dualists, believing that religion may be a fine thing for people, so long as they keep it private. Their secularism isn’t threatened by Christians as long as they aren’t too ‘Incarnational.’ As long...
This is a great little video from a church in Brussels.The church isn't a "WHAT." It's a "WHO." It's a people.Or...as we've stated...it's not a NOUN but a VERB. It's not just a bunch of poeple but a bunch of people engaged in and changing the world.Or, as the kids' song says, "The church is not a building. The church is not a steeple. The church is not a resting place. The church is a people."Or...well...take...
As readers of my blog will know, I've been pastor at Girdwood Chapel for 10 years so far and much of that time has been spent working towards constructing a new church facility.This new building was a dream of the congregation's before I got here. They'd been planning for a new building since even before their last pastor, their first full-time pastor, showed up in 1996. After I got here...
Tuesday, October 26, 2010
Pastor Appreciation Month is coming to a close this week. While the consecration of our facility made me feel appreciated, nothing formal was done at Girdwood Chapel (although I did drop some hints that lattes are always appreciated). And, the important thing, regardless or any "month" is to recognize that us clergy-folk are most likely engaged in a whole lot more activity than the one...
Monday, October 25, 2010
Image via WikipediaThis is my 11th year in Girdwood. We've loved it here. The church has been challenging and fun. The construction project has been long and a valuable learning experience. I think I've grown a lot here…as a person and a pastor. We know this is the place that our kids (at least the three older ones) have grown up. I often say that, as persons grow...
Image via Wikipedia“A person will worship something – have no doubt about that. We may think our tribute is paid in secret in the dark recesses of our hearts – but it will out. That which dominates our imaginations and our thoughts will determine our lives and character. Therefore, it behooves us to be careful what we worship, for what we are worshiping, we are becoming.” – Ralph Waldo EmersonFound...
Sunday, October 24, 2010
Saturday, October 23, 2010
10On a Sabbath Jesus was teaching in one of the synagogues, 11and a woman was there who had been crippled by a spirit for eighteen years. She was bent over and could not straighten up at all. 12When Jesus saw her, he called her forward and said to her, "Woman, you are set free from your infirmity." 13Then he put his hands on her, and immediately she straightened up and praised God. 14Indignant...
Friday, October 22, 2010
Image by Armando Maynez via FlickrJamie Heredia is a missionary in Costa Rica and publishes a wonderful blog called: "Jamie The Very Worst Missionary: Innappropriate remarks, embarrassing antics, and generally lame observations about living life as a Christian Missionary in Costa Rica." And, it's everything the subheading makes it out to be. It's awesome.Just a couple of days ago...
Image via Wikipedia(The image to the right is Dan Savage, gay rights campaigner.)This is from CNN's Belief Blog:Two out of three Americans believe gay people commit suicide at least partly because of messages coming out of churches and other places of worship, a survey released Thursday found. More than four out of 10 Americans say the message coming out of churches about gay people...
Image via WikipediaIn fairness to myself, I was never really a bully in my formative years. I was a good kid. I hung out with "the computer geeks" even though only one of us had a computer as I recall. My understanding of bullying is that it involves some amount of power on the part of the bully -- physical strength, intelligence, etc. In other words, it's not the activity of the powerless. I...
Image by trix0r via FlickrIt's been month now since Rutgers student Tyler Clementi commited suicide by jumping off the George Washington Bridge. It's a horrible account. Tyler's roommate supposedly took a video of Tyler engaging in some homosexual act and posted it on the internet. Now, I'm not sure if this has been proven, but the information is out there.The following is found...
Image via WikipediaI can't help but wonder if my life would have been different if I had really been exposed to the "New Monasticism" at an earlier age--when I was young and carefree, when I didn't have kids.It seems like my life, over the past few years, but really in the last 6 months, has been been bombarded by images of these new monastics in the world. Well, I'm sure I haven't been bombarded,...
Thursday, October 21, 2010
Image via WikipediaYou know how it is with casseroles, particularly with kids? You spend a great deal of time throwing together the Shepherd's Pie or the Tuna Casserole or, in our family, the Chicken Lindsey. You follow the directions to a "T" and you put it in the oven for the prescribed time and it's served piping hot to the family. And what do the kids do, they pick and choose...
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