This book looks like one I want to get a hold of. The excerpt is pretty good stuff. I wonder, what would it mean to UnLearn church for my local congregation? Hmmm....I need to ponder this....UnLearn Chu...
Socrates said, "An unexamined life is not worth living." This is my feeble attempt at examining my life.
Wednesday, August 27, 2008
Sunday, August 24, 2008
>We've moved!
>The Graceworks blog has moved to the Grace Chapel website. Go to www.graceepc.org to read new blog entries, download podcasts of the Sunday messages, and to find out what's happening at Grace Chapel. Join us for our fall kick off barbeque Wednesday, August 27 at 5:30pm.Everyone is welco...
Saturday, August 23, 2008
Blue Parakeet...
The next grand installment is coming to Church Remix. Zondervan was offering about 100 free copies of Scot McKnight's new book, Blue Parakeet, to bloggers. I am excited to announce that my copy is on its way and as soon as it does the posts will be rolling in.I am also thinking that I will be posting thoughts, random or otherwise, from my Older Testament class this semester. I think that there...
Wednesday, August 20, 2008
>This One's for the Ladies
>Every word I believed intill I felt it in my own heartin the deepest partthe healing came -Sara GrovesPosted by Robin Schmidt on August 20th, 2008 There are women in our lives that intimidate us. We are awed by their beauty or their gifts or their strength or their popularity and we pull back. We are afraid to approach. We are afraid of rejection. "She doesn't want to talk to me," we think.Last...
Thursday, August 7, 2008
Communion...now this is good...
My son and I were worshipping together on Sunday and being the first Sunday of the month we partook in Communion. As the elements came to us, he smiled at me and we had the following conversation:Ethan: Do I get some of that?Me: No son. We need to make sure that you truly follow Jesus by faith and that you believe that he is your Lord and that he has forgiven you.Ethan: I do Dad.Me: Well,...
Wednesday, August 6, 2008
We built it, but they don't come, what's up with that?
I read this article tonight and it blew my mind. I think it's precise, well said, and poigna...
Tuesday, August 5, 2008
Baptism 2 - It's importance now...
Today's culture is adrfit. There is no longer an oppressive meta-narrative keeping everyone in check. Everything changes, and everything changes fast. If you have to wait more than a couple of minutes for your fast food you get upset. If the lines at the self-checkout are long you can't understand why they don't have more. People change their relationships almost as often as they...