Month: April 2004
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Standing With Others In Painful Reality
Spent the evening with a friend who was involved in a tragic car accident. He escaped with little injury but one of the occupants of the other vehicle was killed. What’s worse, my friend may have been responsible for the accident. It was, in fact, an accident but a mistake may have been made. A…
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Authority Comes From Compassion
Is there true spiritual authority? Obviously, yes! The question is, “What does it look like?” Henri Nouwen does a masterful job describing true authority in a short piece article entitled, “The Authority of Compassion.” This is worth a read: Mostly we think of people with great authority as higher up, far away, hard to reach.…
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Belated Easter Greeting
I couldn’t resist passing on this Easter greeting (a little late) that I found posted over at Kingfisher Cove.
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Regional Conference
I don’t think I’ve mentioned that there is a regional House2House conference in Southern California this coming weekend. In case anyone is in that part of the world, the information can be found at: http://www.house2house.tv/index.pl/events/h2hreg-sw
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Character Is Essential
The problem with writing about church, emerging church, house church, simple church, traditional church is that we can get focused on structure or lack-of-structure or whatever and still miss the one thing that is essential regardless of how we “do church”: the character of those involved. I would rather hang out with one person of…
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Next Wave: Creech
I love what Alan Creech has written on the Next-Wave site: –It’s not about being a postmodern church, it’s about the church just being “the church.” –Liturgy is good. –Transformation happens in the context of community. –It’s not about the Pastor. –Lay your time tables down. Read the whole article.
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Diary of a House Church Plant – Pt. A
Two weeks ago my wife and were having lunch with Aaron and Cindy, a young couple, when they said they wanted to talk about starting a new church. The surprise was that, only days before, we had written their names down as people who would most likely be ready to “sprout” off from one of…
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Home Schooling and Home Churching
John White has written an excellent article describing parallels between the home school movement and what is taking place today with home churches. He comments: My thoughts? I think we are seeing the beginning of a movement toward “home churching” that will parallel the “home schooling” movement. Some will be called to stay within the…
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House That Change People
WaterCarriers has a wonderful post that details the many, awesome things that took place in houses as recorded by Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. Take a look.
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Not Knowing Is Essential
After two weekend church gatherings, I’m always amazed at how God surprises us. There is no way to ever predict what He will do as we gather to focus on Him, let Him have His way, and simply worship. The one essential that we seem to bring, other than hearts seeking, is the willingness to…