a different perspective from alan hartung on the emerging church, politics, faith, and life
I haven’t had internet connection for a couple days (only long enough to pop in and make sure none of my clients have a crisis). Fortunately I have techs on the server 24-7 so I can get away for a few days if I need to! Any way, I hope you all are having a [...]
I can’t imagine what pain Tony Dungy and his family must be going through right now. If you haven’t heard, the Colts head coach’s son, James Dungy, was found dead in his apartment early this morning. As someone who loves football and gets caught up in it every fall and winter, I’m reminded how there [...]
In Baja California, you can actually see the stars. That’s one thing about Los Angeles I don’t like… most of the stars are blinded out by the lights of the city. My friend Ron and I stepped out of the car last night, and I was awed by the stars. I said something, and we [...]
Tomorrow morning, I’m off to San Felipe! It will be a nice working vacation. I’ll be posting while in Mexico, but maybe not as frequently. It is a working vacation, though, as I rarely can afford to take any time completely off. But over the holidays my workload will be minimal… so plenty of time [...]
And I deserve it, because the first chance I get to dig on the donkeys, I’m going to do it. link
Bob Hyatt offers an excellent thought on why some churches are not holding worship services on Christmas day. I was surprised to hear that my parent’s smaller church was not having a worship service on Christmas day. I don’t know why, but I just expected they would have a service. The thing that bothers me [...]
I’m not sure when this happened, but Planet Emergent has changed its name to “Emerging Church Blogs.” The old URL forwards to the new one, but you might want to update your bookmarks to: http://emergingchurchblogs.info/ I like the name change a lot, as I think “Emergent” should be reserved for the organization going by that [...]
Transformation In the established church, Christians are more surprised by a transformed life than they are by the status quo. After the initial “conversion” moment, a drastic lifestyle change occurs. After that initial immersion in the Christian lifestyle (usually lasting 6-12 months), there is very little substantive change. In the first year, the new Christian [...]
My first experience with Amtrak has been a good one, thus far. I’m typing on MarsEdit as I’m offline and on the train (although I almost got connection at the Chatsworth stop…). The only thing I’m concerned about on this trip is that I think I might be in the wrong section. It was kind [...]
USATODAY.com – Looking for signs of intelligent life in Fort Wayne I swelled with pride when I found out my hometown is considered “the dumbest town in all the land” according to Men’s Health magazine. I guess this article came out about a year ago, but amazingly none of my hometown buds mentioned it to [...]