Every year, one topic comes up in the ministry I work in: changes and the future. Granted, they’re teenagers so many of them don’t have much Past to work with yet. But, they spend a huge amount of time worrying about and planning out their futures during their junior and senior years of high school. There is no explaining [...]
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18 Nov
Brownie Brainwashing- the Girls Scout kind, not the chocolate kind
My daughter is nine years old. She the youngest of our tribe, and the only girl. So, we’re doing a few things for the first time although it’s our fourth child. This year she joined Girl Scouts. The boys didn’t like Boy Scouts. They said it was too much like school. But she seems to [...]
18 Aug
God’s dreams
Does God dream? Church folks talk about His plans for them, but I can’t remember anyone talking about His dreams. Not for their lives, nor for the world. In fact, I can’t remember anyone ever saying “God dreamed….” or “in God’s dreams”. Why is that? Presumably, if we dream and we’re made in God’s image, [...]
30 Jun
When is a Frog not a Frog?
The Space trilogy by C.S. Lewis. I’ve read them before; a long time ago and had forgotten how much I like them. I’m through Out of the Silent Planet and Perelandra. I really love Perelandra, but I was talking to a friend who said he prefers Out of the Silent Planet by a longshot over [...]
29 May
things that make you go “hmmm”
“Of note in Barna’s research is that a church’s size and theology seems to be related to its use of technology. Simply put, smaller churches tend to use less tech than larger churches, and theologically liberal churches tend to use less tech than the more theologically conservative. Interesting.” from Ed Setzer.com yeah, interesting.
