Archive for October, 2007
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Monday, October 8th, 20071. Judah asking me last night how to understand that God always was and never was created. 2. Two attendees at Crossroads’ newcomers lunch after church yesterday, one of whom was “born with Bible in his hands” — to borrow Rollie’s assessment from years ago — and the other of whom was a 25-year-old seeker [...]
Monday Morning MP3
Monday, October 8th, 2007Raising up a New Generation of Urban Heroes Larry Acosta, CCDA 2005 Courtesy: UrbanMinistry.org.
And so ended years of angry denials by one of the world’s most celebrated athletes.
Saturday, October 6th, 2007Barroid’s prequel? She was a liar and a cheat, she told the judge, her eyes never straying from his face. … The owner of three Olympic golds and two bronze medals, Jones came clean Friday and admitted she used steroids. She pleaded guilty to lying to federal investigators when she denied using performance-enhancing drugs, then [...]
Dr. Dobson’s Values Test
Friday, October 5th, 2007In a New York Times Op-Ed yesterday, Dr. James Dobson wrote: After two hours of deliberation, we voted on a resolution that can be summarized as follows: If neither of the two major political parties nominates an individual who pledges himself or herself to the sanctity of human life, we will join others in voting [...]
Inter-Generational Wisdom
Friday, October 5th, 2007Rev. Dr. Ray Rivera of Latino Pastoral Action Center imparts 40 years of holistic ministry wisdom and experience to New York City youth workers as part of the three-year, federally funded Transforming Youth (TY) Capacity Building Project. At a ceremony at LPAC last Friday, Rev. Ray presented grants totaling $42,000 to five TY partner agencies, [...]
Beats N Blessings
Friday, October 5th, 2007Craig Allen and the BNB crew continue to innovate youth and media development in Queens. They launched a new website today, featuring movies, podcast, blogs, and more. Check it here.
Stealing from Tony
Friday, October 5th, 2007If you aren’t regular readers of Tony Sheng’s blog, shame on you! On Wednesday, he linked to two incredible articles that I have to archive here as well. Marc Andreessen (internet revolutionary; founder of Netscape) on career planning. Among other priceless pearls: All successful CEO’s are like this. They are almost never the best product [...]
Friday Foto Finish
Friday, October 5th, 2007Honorary North Park Student for a Day Last Wednesday night, at the Chicago Boat Cruise. Photo courtesy of Stacey Ernvall. More pics like this here.
High praises for the Playbook
Thursday, October 4th, 2007Chris Brooks is wrestling through issues of contextualizing the Gospel for urban campus ministry, and in the process gives a humbling endorsement of the Playbook: A Campus Ministry Primer for Cities, which I collaborated with Student Venture NYC to publish last spring. The reason the Campus Alliance (and pretty much every other major evangelical movement [...]
Thought of the day
Thursday, October 4th, 2007The Only Thing that Counts “For in Christ Jesus… the only thing that counts is faith expressing itself through love…. “You, my brothers, were called to be free. But do not use your freedom to indulge the sinful nature; rather, serve one another in love. The entire law is summed up in a single command: [...]
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