Category: misc

Resources from Church 2.0

I shared some of my notes from Church 2.0 a while back…

But just found that Gabe Smith took some time and tracked down all the resources and blogs of folks who came to the event.

There are some great resources and people listed there. Thanks Gabe.

Lessons from the storm

I spent an hour or so last night trying to grab that perfect picture of the approaching storm.

It was quite a site to see the clouds rolling in and the electrical storm happening only a few miles away.

While I didn’t get that “perfect shot” I did get a number of photos I liked a lot.

And I learned a few things along the way as well…
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Monday morning challenge

A Monday morn challenge to my peeps.

Write a haiku describing your faith/or lack thereof.

A Haiku is a simple form of poetry, with only 17 syllables in three lines. The lines are made up of 5, 7 and 5 syllables respectively.
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Nine practices of the emerging church

A couple weeks back I shared a series of posts on on what I saw as the defining characteristics of the emerging Christian movement.

And Wednesday, I found that Urban Theologian (HT @knightopia) shared nine practices of the emerging church, according to Eddie Gibbs and Ryan Bolger in their book “Remembering Our Future: Explorations in Deep Church.”

If you are unclear about what an emerging church is, Gibbs and Bolger define emerging churches as “missional communities arising from within postmodern culture and consisting of followers of Jesus who are seeking to be faithful to their place and time.” The nine “practices” are:

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Carnival Ecstasy review

As promised, here is my first report card on the two cruises we’ve taken this year (so far :-)). I’ll rank both cruises (and hopefully future cruises) on the same scale: 20 categories, scored 1-5 (5 being the highest); then total the points for the overall cruise score (out of 100 possible points).

In February 2009 we took the Carnival Ecstasy (see the Wikipedia entry) from Galveston, Texas to Progresso, Mexico and Cozumel, Mexico. The cruise was priced around $300 per person and Laurie and I traveled with two friends.
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