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Entries from January 2009
The bean’s effect on the BEAN!
January 29th, 2009 · No Comments
Tags: Common Place
Dreams dashed and heart challenged
January 29th, 2009 · No Comments
My childhood dream of being a sports announcer took another hit today as ESPN announced a hiring freeze!
While practicing the discipline of solitude, I was confronted with/by the thought, “Do I practice spiritual disciplines to get more spiritual or to connect with the One True God, my Father in heaven?”
Tags: Things that make you think
The Danger of Presuming Omniscience
January 28th, 2009 · No Comments
Unless you have “all” perspectives your conclusions could be pathetically wrong!
Tags: Common Place
Intriguing Quote
January 27th, 2009 · No Comments
“If you don’t like change, you’re going to like irrelevance even less”.
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Tags: Quotes
Where do Christians and Pagans find common ground?
January 26th, 2009 · 1 Comment
Dar Williams sings her holiday classic “The Christians and The Pagans.” From her upcoming live DVD, “Live at the Bearsville Theater.”
lyrics to Dar Williams, “The Christians and The Pagans”
Amber called her uncle, said “We’re up here for the holiday,
Jane and I were having Solstice, now we need a place to stay.”
And her Christ-loving uncle [...]
Tags: Common Place
Does Africa need God? Atheist says, “YES!”
January 25th, 2009 · 2 Comments
As an atheist, I truly believe Africa needs God
Missionaries, not aid money, are the solution to Africa’s biggest problem – the crushing passivity of the people’s mindset
Matthew Parris
from Times Online December 29, 2008 (http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/matthew_parris/article5400568.ece)
Before Christmas I returned, after 45 years, to the country that as a boy I knew as Nyasaland. Today it’s Malawi, [...]
Tags: Common Place · Shoal Creek
Creating a Ripple
January 24th, 2009 · No Comments
Tim Sanders at Catalyst on creating a Ripple. Oh for followers of Christ who saw it their life’s mission to create a ripple in the classroom, office place, neighborhood, family, across town, across the sea!
Tags: Common Place
Money Saving Ideas continued
January 23rd, 2009 · No Comments
From Renee Seba
I will confirm Richard and Tracy’s post on cash. When our first child was born 10 years ago, I quit work to stay home. We took the household budget to cash in envelopes. We have bascially been on that system ever since (with a few expensive breaks). Alongside [...]
Tags: Common Place
Shoal Creek’s Internship Announces International Partner
January 20th, 2009 · No Comments
Shoal Creek’s newly renamed summer internship, The Foundry is pleased to announce a partnership with Jabulani African Ministries.
JAM is a movement dedicated to the youth of Africa. We believe now is the time for big change in Africa. The “dark continent” is ready to come into the light. JAM aims to bring together youth from [...]
Tags: Common Place
Missional, emergent, Baptist, Charismatic, what’s the deal!
January 16th, 2009 · 2 Comments
Ed Stetzer from a recent Catalyst newsletter.
“We worry too much about reaching people,” explained a recent “missional” convert. He explained that he had read my book and a few others and he wanted to be more about the mission of God and less about nickels, noses, and numbers. “We have to show the love of [...]
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