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Wednesday, May 11th, 2005Note to anyone not named Matt Kruse or Bob Campbell: Feel free to eavesdrop on our conversation about Brian McLaren’s A New Kind of Christian and comment. MK: J, here’s my initial salvo on the book. [Caveats.] Me: You said a mouthful for an initial salvo. Can’t wait for the sequel. MK: What I liked: [...]
The Gospel according to Neo
Wednesday, May 11th, 2005Church planter Matt Kruse started a blog last month. Yesterday’s post was so “postmodern”: “We preached Jesus from a movie with guns and helicopters smashing into buildings, but everyone trusted me enough and is thinking missionally enough to go with it.” His church, Edgeworth, is also launching an innovative, web-based outreach this weekend at a [...]
“When I became a man”
Monday, May 9th, 2005Note to readers: This post starts rambling at the end and needs to be edited. Feel free to peruse it in its unfinished state or come back later for a bit more refinement. ——— Friday I fired off a quick post about needing prayer. Thanks to those who prayed. Today was an interesting day. Long [...]
Random Thought of the Day
Monday, May 9th, 2005From my friend, Pastor/DJ Kenny Mitchell of Tribe Church: “Spirit and Sound: the connection of the vertical and horizontal, where our world and God’s world become intertwined. Sonic vibrations translated into Spiritual Power. “The ancient people of God knew of this connection. The horns were played before the battle, musicians were used to calm and [...]
McLaren on being "Born Again"
Wednesday, May 4th, 2005I’ve thought long and hard about the best way to blog about ANKOC, beyond the random comments for several weeks now, and I think letting McLaren speak for himself is a good place to start. So I’m going to begin with one of his softball (sarcasm alert) notions that I have to believe riled a [...]
A new kind of Christian
Monday, May 2nd, 2005… keeps his word, unlike my promise to blog about Brian McLaren’s book of the same title when I read it last month. MK reminded me of my transgression so I’ll make an introductory comment beyond the half dozen or so brief references weeks ago. God’s timing remains ever mysterious to me. When it seems [...]
A Jamaican proverb?
Wednesday, March 30th, 2005McLaren quotes a fictionalized Jamaican grandmother as saying: If you find you-self on one mountain peak and you wanna get to anodda one, den dey is only one way up, and dat is to go down fust. (ANKOC, p. 80) If it’s not already a proverb, it should be.
From the jacket cover
Wednesday, March 30th, 2005You know the book’s deep when even the endorsements provoke. Here’s one from Dr. Leonard Sweet about A New Kind of Christian (“ANKOC” in future posts): This is a book that heightens the depths and deepens the peaks. … [I]t is not to be entered into lightly, but reverently and in the fear of a [...]
Monday, March 28th, 2005
I know I owe you a reflective post about McClaren’s book, but I have too much to say and not enough time to write it. I’m about half way through it so far, and I’m thoroughly enjoying the journey. I’m not sure I agree with all of it, but I think that’s partly the point. [...]
If Rudy’s among The Ten, where are we?
Thursday, March 10th, 2005Congrats, Rudy, on having your blog named by Worship Leader Magazine one of “Ten Emerging Blogs” (whatever that means exactly). Since you’re the brother most singularly responsible for me having a blog, where does that place mine, and Liz’s, and all the others that have been inspired by Urban Onramps? It’s great to be able [...]
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