Archive | February, 2009

Back to Ithaca

Just had two great days in New England with Phil Chorlian (North Jersey Vineyard) and Vineyard Pastors from Maine, New Hampshire, Massachusetts and Vermont.  We had some great discussions about planning our worship services, and seeing them as a way to reach out to those not connected to Jesus, discipling those who are folloing Jesus, [...]

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Guy Kawasaki is Following me on Twitter!

How cool is that…the original Mac evangelist…the author of some of my favorite books…oh wait, he’s following how many people? 73,025.  Never mind. Like I mentioned, I’m experimenting with twitter…so far so good…but why do people I don’t know sign up to follow me…some, like Guy, have this idea that you follow everyone who follows [...]

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if you’ve been to my facebook account recently you’ve seen that I am just about on the verge of shutting it down…it very quickly moved from a great way to keep up with contacts, find out how what’s up with people the church to noise.  there is jsut so much to sift through at this [...]

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I’ve been working through N.T. Wright’s Simply Christian, and every chapter is filled with several points where you simply say, “wow!”  This is one from today & I think a great one to start the week off with. “We have lived far too long in a world and tragically even in a church…where the wills [...]

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Thanks.

Rejoice always, pray continually, give thanks in all circumstances; for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus. (1 Thessalonians 5:16-18) Over the years I’ve heard this passage explained two different ways. The first one, which seems most common says, if you are in a bad situation, you don’t thank God for the situation, [...]

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maybe we’ve upset someone?

I’ve taken a bit of a break from blogging lately…partly because I haven’t had a ton of spare time…the past couple weeks have been pretty exhausting. Some of you are aware of the rash of weird stuff that we’ve experienced over the past few months…things breaking, getting lost…kids getting injured, or even attacked.  Well, our [...]

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