April 19th 2008
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I posted briefly yesterday that I have been reading a book called [The Coming of the Son of Man][1]. I decided that I'd go ahead and put my notes and thoughts down in text to help sort things out. So...this post will start things off with the setup ...
April 18th 2008
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I'm about 3/4 of the way through a book called [The Coming of the Son of Man][1] by a fellow by the name of Andrew Perriman (the editor of [opensourcetheology.net][2]). It's subtitle is *New Testament Eschatology for an Emerging Church* and it's essentially the authors reading of the apocalyptic ...
April 2nd 2008
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Some time ago I defined *missional* as:
>Any community bent on making Jesus their number one priority and because of this see themselves as a whole sent on mission for Him.
Now, from that simple definition its obvious that Jesus is to be at the heart of missional living but worked out, ...
March 27th 2008
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This past Tuesday I re-watched Pan’s Labyrinth with a special young lady who had never seen it. Besides forgetting how violent it is, one part jumped out at me: the fascist captain rationing food for the villagers. Now you wouldn’t necessarily think that something that would spring out ...
March 23rd 2008
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Tonight I had the opportunity to talk about Communion at church. With the celebration of Jesus’ resurrection, it seemed fitting to do a communion service. As to what I said, I figured I’d write the general gist for those of you who might be curious or who missed ...
March 22nd 2008
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"...it is precisely in the midst of a Holy Saturday experience that the decision to follow Christ becomes truly authentic. A faith that can only exist in the light of victory and certainty is one which really affirms the self while pretending to affirm Christ, for it only follows Jesus ...
March 19th 2008
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Amy from Zondervan commented on my first posting about Jesus for President and clued me in to a “blog tour” going on by the authors of the book. It’s an opportunity for them to promote the book (and tours accompanying it) and an opportunity for people like me to ...
March 18th 2008
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To write a little more about Jesus for President, I thought I’d go over one of the points I found quite interesting: the comparison of Gospel terminology with imperial terminology. Most of this I’d read before, but it was nice having it in the easy chart format.Basilea: Imperial: the kingdom ...
March 17th 2008
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I finished Jesus for President by Shane Claiborne and Chris Haw yesterday. It was wonderful. The first thing worth talking about (which is one of the first things you are going to notice about the book) is the design. It’s put together like no other book I’ve ...
February 3rd 2008
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I finished Serve God, Save the Planet by Matthew Sleeth tonight. My initial thoughts are good not great. It’s a practical book about creation care (Christianese for environmental activism). I’ll talk about the good first. The chapter answering typical Christian excuses for a lack of any ...
January 15th 2008
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One of the highlights of Christmas vacation not mentioned in my last long post was getting through six different books. I imagine everyone reading this already knows, but if you didn’t — I love to read. And because I was so successful over the past couple of weeks, ...
December 15th 2007
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The second chapter, titled Fear and the Moral Life, starts with the question: what does fear do to us? The answer to this question has its beginnings in the moral nature of fear as fear is a basic emotion which isn’t morally neutral (this is not to say fear ...
December 1st 2007
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After doing some freelance work this morning, I stopped by Mardel’s to see if there were any sales happening. There really weren’t any but there was a book that caught my eye: Following Jesus in a Culture of Fear by Scot Bader-Saye. As I said, the title struck ...
November 30th 2007
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Sunday night at house church we spent quite a bit of time as a group praying for trust — that we would trust in God, that we would trust in His promises and what He is doing among us. On the way home afterwards, “Quicksand” by Sleeping at Last ...
November 5th 2007
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Last night was celebration at church (the once a month meeting where EVERYONE is together). Not only was it celebration, it was also the “celebration for the nations” where focus was directed towards Norman Community’s involvement with missions. The summer trips were announced (Rome and South Africa, the ...
October 29th 2007
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In my first look at A Community Called Atonement, I described the beginnings of atonement — those places you first look when describing a broader, bigger picture. In the next section of the book, McKnight looks at the different images of atonement within various theological traditions. The focus ...
October 23rd 2007
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Today I finished the best straight up theology book I’ve read since Transforming Mission by David Bosch. It is called A Community Called Atonement by Scot McKnight and is the first in the “Living Theology” series by Abingdon Press/Emergent Village (edited by EV’s national co-ordinator — Tony Jones). ...
i'm a twenty-something starting this journey called life. i studied microbiology and chemistry in college and currently work as a systems analyst. that means i manage computers (and a lot of them at that -- linux, solaris, os x, and windows). but that's just what i do to pay the bills. less important than where i am at now is where i am going. for quite some time i've had a nagging voice whispering "mission" in my ear. thus the direction i walk. contained in these pages is a log of a bit of that journey (and everything else that i do).