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Back From Kenya…some funny stories to help me get writing

There’s a lot to say and still more to process.  But I wanted to begin putting things down.  So here goes. I’ll start with the light and humorous things first.

Some interesting and unexpected things that happened on this trip:

1.) I ate the BEST Korean Kimchi (pickled cabbage) in my entire life at a Japanese restaurant in [...]

A crisis misconstrued… is this recession good for the church?

I’m in London-Heathrow airport with 10 minutes of pre-paid wi-fi time, so I thought I would send an update and post a draft I had finished before leaving.

The team is well.  And I had the pleasure of finishing tony and felicity dale’s book, the rabbit and the elephant, on the way.  As usual, very readable.  Very [...]

Musings on organic spirituality: what this world needs is more people who are passionately in love

I first got my ear bent to this idea when in conversation with my friend, Dezi B@ker (Mr. Organic Spirituality himself).  But as I have pondered this more in my preparation for what I want to share with some Kenyan refugees this week, I think there is something deeply profound and directional in there.

I am not [...]

Mary Magdalene: the power of her tears

Around Easter I was struck by Mary Magdalene and her encounter with Jesus, the resurrected Christ. The funny thing about this encounter is that I don’t think she really understood what was going on and what the resurrection meant about Jesus’ identity as the Messiah, the Risen Christ, the Almighty Son of God. Maybe [...]

Spirituality without additives (a.k.a. “Organic Spirituality)

As I prepare for church planting training, a theme keeps coming up.  It’s paralleled my and my simple church planter friends’ journey so far.   It’s this: before we can talk about church planting movements and organic churches, we need to go further back; then, back some more. My friend, Lyle, had a fantastic analogy to [...]

Calling out the malaise of western cultural Christianity and the heresy of blessing

One of the blogs I follow is that of Guy Muse, an American Southern Baptist simple church planter in Ecuador who is more of a cultural outsider as a missionary kid born in South America and longtime missionary to Ecuador. This causes him to be quite a provocateur for the North American branch of the SBC [...]

Discipleship – two great posts on it and some personal musings

Here are two great posts by Ed Waken and Alan Knox on discipleship.

Both come to a similar conclusion: discipleship is LIFE-ON-LIFE journeying with people towards Christ-likeness.

Here are some excerpts:

From Ed: Taking a long walk in the same direction (towards Jesus) with good friends is a good way to describe discipleship. For too long discipleship has been [...]

The Rabbit and the Elephant – Is small the new big? I wish it were but it isn’t yet.

I picked up a new book written by our friends, Tony and Felicity Dale, called The Rabbit and the Elephant. And I wanted to put a plug in for it, and take a moment to discuss the analogy.  The book begins with them telling a story to a crowded Indian church planter training time (one that [...]