For the last few months, I have been a contributor to a website called Mere Mission. It has been a great site that gathers and shares posts from various blogs that relate to living missionally. I have met some very cool people through this site, and have found blogs that are now daily reads for… Continue reading Mere Makeover
Category: Culture
Upside-down people
I just got done spending an hour with someone who is perhaps the most upside-down person I know. This individual consistently looks at things through a kingdom of God lens, and refuses to embrace anything because it is “how things are done” or “the way it has always been”, or perhaps most significantly, “the way… Continue reading Upside-down people
Quotation of the Week
“Together, they left behind 34 children and at least a dozen grandchildren.” From Black Hawk Down, Newsweek, February 5, 2007
A lesson from the ants
We have recently started having ants come into our bathroom. I can’t figure out where they are coming from or why, and our bathroom floor is cleaner than ever, so I am at a loss for how to deal with our little intruders. They are starting to drive me crazy. This morning, as Doug was… Continue reading A lesson from the ants
Yea though I walk (or chase after small children)…
There’s this thing that happens in our neighborhood sometimes. It is as if a tangible change takes place in the air (and I’m not talking about the pollution), and suddenly the environment feels tense and toxic. I call it feeling “prickly”. It is as if my skin is sensing or reacting to something, and the… Continue reading Yea though I walk (or chase after small children)…
A God of Reversals
Will Willimon has a great post up right now called Divine Wisdom Among ‘Little Old Ladies’ where he responds to a negative comment somebody made about a specific group of churches: “There’s nobody left in the churches except for a few little old ladies.” As always he writes with warm humor and deep conviction, and… Continue reading A God of Reversals
In the news
For those interested in the recent racial violence here in L.A. that I have mentioned in previous posts, here is an overview.
And the winner is…?
Two weeks ago, Kevin Blue (one of our teaching pastors) gave an excellent message at church titled: “Malcolm, Martin, and Messiah.” Part of his message traced the histories and teaching of Malcolm X, Martin Luther King Jr., and Jesus, and asked the question: what, ultimately, was the hope or vision that these leaders pursued? He… Continue reading And the winner is…?
Old news
I often feel a bit behind in terms of what is going on in the world. Like the other day, it was my mom in Seattle who informed me that there was snow a few miles away in Malibu! We don’t have cable (and network news is really heinous here in L.A.), we don’t get… Continue reading Old news
The time is always ripe…
“I have just received a letter from a white brother in Texas. He writes: ‘All Christians know that the colored people will receive equal rights eventually, but it is possible that you are in too great a religious hurry. It has taken Christianity almost two thousand years to accomplish what it has. The teachings of… Continue reading The time is always ripe…