Organic Church: Growing Faith Where Life Happens by Neil Cole
My review
rating: 4 of 5 stars
I loved this book. Cole’s ideas about the church being an organic living entity rather than a mechanical machine really ring true. His ideas about the simplicity of sharing one’s faith and “doing church” really resonated with me [...]
The Shaping of Things to Come: Innovation and Mission for the 21 Century Church by Michael Frost
My review
rating: 4 of 5 stars
This was an exciting, encouraging, frustrating and difficult book to read. It left me excited but having no real way to work out what I would like to (not the books fault). If [...]
The Great Emergence: How Christianity is Changing and Why by Phyllis Tickle
My review
rating: 4 of 5 stars
Whether you like Emerging/Emergent church stuff this book makes a very clear case exactly where it has come from historically, theologically, and sociologically. It makes a very clear and fairly fact based argument that we shouldn’t be [...]
Well, I’ve teased it for a while now on Facebook, Twitter, and various other media (strangely enough they are a part of what got me into this predicament) so I guess it’s now time to parlez the tale of the mysterious visitor . . . also known as the story of the lady who called [...]
It’s been said that children are the future, but what at what point does the future have to finally become the present? This past Sunday night Swift Current held it’s annual ecumenical prayer service, and this year it just happened to be held at our church. It’s supposed to be a time when people from [...]
Well, my friend Brad has a hankering for depth and seriousness, so I hope this will help to satiate his hunger for a while. This post has been brewing in my life and mind for months now and I just haven’t made the time to put it all into words. I’m sure this post won’t [...]
There are a lot of animals in the bible. Bulls, and goats, and pigeons, oh my! But for the first time ever a couple weeks ago we came across a squirrel during the youth bible study. One of the kids was reading James 4:1 for us and it read as such, “What causes fights and [...]
Previous to this date in recorded history all of my sermons have only been available for worldwide distribution on my blog through the medium of word document files, however, I have recently acquired a technology that will allow me to turn the sermons on cassette into mp3’s for your auditory pleasure. If you go to [...]
I guess making an allusion like this may show my age a bit, but old men like me are allowed to wax poetic about the good old days once in a while; after all I did turn 28 today. Don’t you all wish that you had a place like Cheers to go to? Even if [...]
So, it’s about that time again, when it’s my turn to preach again, and I’m looking for input again, so I don’t get accused of heresy. This is a job posting in the sense that I’m looking for people’s input on what they think of the sermon, and it’s a job posting in another way [...]
