Building vs. Planting, Part 4

Alrighty! Are you ready to tackle the next couple of reasons why churches choose NOT to start new churches (planting)? This has been an ongoing blog entry which began with a discussion about why churches choose to continue growing their…

Da Vinci Dialogue, Part 2

You won’t read a better commentary from an informed Christian perspective than Brian McLaren’s. The interview has been preserved at Justin’s site here. Make sure you check it out. I couldn’t have said it better myself… And before any of…

Music Survey…

Got this tag from Becca’s blog… Great gal! Here goes. Instructions: + Put your music player on shuffle. + Press forward for each question. + Use the song title as the answer to the question. + No cheating! + If…

I think I’m Scott Adams…

Apart from the fact that he’s fabulously wealthy from drawing a cartoon and I’m a poor, bivocational graphic designer/pastor, I think Scott Adams, creator of Dilbert, and I have a lot in common. Now I just taught Sunday on how…

More words… $(*&#@

Let me fire another salvo at the whole power-of-words commentary… It started here. Last weekend I was doing nine hours of penance in the Drew Central Auditorium for my sins over the last year… Ok, actually I was filming Kim’s…

Da Vinci Doubts..

I’ve gotten email and had conversations with lots of folks about the upcoming Da Vinci Code movie. Mostly, it seems that Christians in general are worried about this film perhaps swaying people… Interesting. I don’t believe it will. Here’s an…

Believing vs. Seeing

A friend sent this to me yesterday. Amazing. Try it. If your eyes follow the movement of the rotating pink dot, you will only see one color, pink. However if you stare at the black”+” in the center, the moving…

Building vs. Planting, Part 3

We’re examining reasons that churches choose NOT to plant new churches… Selfish reasons… Elaboration on this particular point could go on and on and cross over into the other reasons that churches choose not to plant, so I’m going to…

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