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Archive for August, 2009
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Prone To Wander
Posted on 2009/08/31 | No CommentsToday’s post is an audio reflection flowing from Isaiah 44-45. You can download the mp3 of Prone to Wander here (PC users right click and save as). Hymn quote in... -
Ecclesiology Wrap: August 22 to August 28
Posted on 2009/08/30 | No CommentsNew Book About Church as Family: Alan Knox looks forward to Joe Hellerman’s book, When the Church was Family. I had the privilege of taking a class from Joe while... -
Insight: Philosophy of Education via Peterson’s With All Your Mind
Posted on 2009/08/29 | No Comments…truth itself may be more fairly treated when diverse opinions are allowed to flourish. With All Your Mind: A Christian Philosophy of Education Michael L. Peterson University of Notre Dame... -
Reflection on “Moving Back into the Neighborhood”
Posted on 2009/08/26 | 2 CommentsThis reflection uses “Moving Back into the Neighborhood” by Alan Roxburgh as a catalyst for pondering embodiment in the neighborhood. In this short article, Roxburgh reflects on the August, 2009,... -
The Value of Ordinary Life: Worship as Perspective and Treasure
Posted on 2009/08/25 | No CommentsThis post continues the discussion of topics informing a network of neighborhoods. In the initial post, Becoming a Network of Neighborhoods, I pondered some informing concepts and arrived at provisional... -
Disagreeing to the Glory of God
Posted on 2009/08/24 | 1 CommentEvery church has at least few issues: some more than others. But what do you do when you’ve been called to a church where the very structure is non-biblical and... -
Chosen, Called, and Loved–but Stubborn
Posted on 2009/08/23 | No Comments1 Now this is what the Lord says. He created you, people of Jacob; he formed you, people of Israel. He says, “Don’t be afraid, because I have saved you.... -
Ecclesiology Wrap August 15 – August 21
Posted on 2009/08/22 | No CommentsBrother Maynard: To Clarify This Journey: Paul Wilkinson reposts Brother Maynard’s emergingchurch.info article from 03.05. Back when it was first posted, the concepts resonated, but now even more so. It... -
Insight: Spiritual Formation via Issler’s Wasting Time With God
Posted on 2009/08/21 | No CommentsNeighborly love is a love of hospitality to others and is a broad, catchall category of love, which includes (a) those for whom there may be a limited expectation of... -
Neighborhood: Built by Love and Shared in Worship
Posted on 2009/08/19 | No CommentsIn the previous post in this series, I thought through three concepts underlying a network of neighborhoods and arrived at provisional definitions of each concept: Neighborhood: a love-formed relational space,...
