Archive for November, 2007
Friday, November 30th, 2007
Justin Baeder’s asking some very interesting church structure questions and coming up with some great ideas. Basically, he’s proposing a “church” community where there’s not a central organization but Christians in an area meet in various forms, at various times, doing various things, without a central location and organization holding them all together. “Elders, [...]
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Thursday, November 29th, 2007
Andrew Jones asks about the emerging church label because “using the term is problematic for some Seminaries and ministries. What do you think? Is the term helpful to you or a hindrance?
For me, since most of my conversations now fall outside of the Evangelical world, the use of the term has been quite handy. It’s [...]
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Wednesday, November 28th, 2007
I’m going to be writing on a few subjects over the coming weeks. One of which is the relationship of faith and works.
Occasionally, I enjoy doing a google blog search or using other blog search engines to find content. Frequently, blogs which are not currently on my radar screen for one reason or another come [...]
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Monday, November 26th, 2007
I just received a couple copies of Out of The Ooze, a collection of articles from www.theooze.com.
My article, “Church Restructure” appears on page 153. This is the first time I’ve been published in book form, though I’m close to completing a proposal which should get accepted rather quickly.
Of course, you could scour The Ooze on [...]
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Sunday, November 25th, 2007
How Evangelicals Became Over-Committed to the Bible and What Can Be Done About It by J.P. Moreland
Roger over at the A-Team Blog has posted on J.P. Moreland’s recent paper on evangelical over-commitment to the bible. Roger states firmly, “The vast majority of Christians desperately need to be more committed to the Bible, not less.”
I believe [...]
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Tuesday, November 20th, 2007
Take, for example, a disagreement between spouses about spending money on entertainment. There may be no fundamental effect on the marriage if both spouses disagree and decide to compromise at a halfway point between their two positions. But there may be a significant effect on the marriage if one spouse’s reservations or concerns are completely [...]
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Friday, November 16th, 2007
If you are powering your blog via WordPress, there’s a new plug-in developed by my friend, Scott Allen at Hybrid 6 Studios, which eliminates almost all the automated comment spam.
I’ve tried it out, and it works great. Try it, and even if you’re using Akismet, you’ll notice you don’t have the tons of Akismet spam [...]
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Wednesday, November 14th, 2007
Just had a Vegas trip totally suck due to the flu. I could barely think yesterday. Now, at least, my mind is clear. Still very achy, though. Probably won’t hear much from me for a couple of days…
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Monday, November 5th, 2007
I upgraded to WordPress 2.3.1, and all of a sudden all of my posts, categories and archives are showing as not found when you click on the links. Working on it…
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Saturday, November 3rd, 2007
And that scares me.
The Pack is 6-1 and facing a Kansas City team, albeit in first place of the diminished AFC West, which is in a rebuilding season.
I’m afraid my boys are going to go down against the greatest quarterback currently playing the game. In my humble opinion, any way!
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