with friends at dwell i had a great time at the dwell conference in new york city. i also had the chance to meet uber blogger darryl dash who snapped these photos. darryl is an always thoughtful blogger and all around good guy except that he left early to go to the david letterman show. darryls pictures show a bit of the venue. it was an interesting space to say the least. here is abe aski...
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just a few more days before my interview with n.t. wright regarding surprised by hope. if you havent yet submitted a question and would like to email me asap. darryl dashs thoughts on together for the gospel. he has a list of things he liked and several things he wished had been part of the coference. josh harris has the inside scoop on american idols performance of shout to the lord ted olsen at ...
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since louisville is the home turf of said at southern i thought i would send a big hat tip welcome to all the bloggers registered for the band of bloggers. welcome to louisville 1. timmy brister louisville ky 2. justin taylor wheaton il 3. tim challies toronto on 4. thabiti anyabwile grand cayman cayman islands 5. mark lauterbach san diego ca 6. abraham piper minneapolis mn 7. frank turk ...
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dr. thomasblackaby has an essay up at sermoncentral.com entitled pastors be shepherds not sheep. in it he takes pastors to taskinstead of leading their people to find the heart and mind of god for their own congregations some pastors seek to copy other more successful congregations that have blown past the norm set new standards and developed innovative approaches for reaching their communities. t...
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its time to come out of the hole. start writing again nate. you have things to say. probably the thing that keeps me silent to a great degree these days is the overwhelming amount of thought that goes into trying to decide how nate fits into the world as nate. to be myself to be the man that i have been made to be that is where i want to live from. but this just so happens to be very nonstatus quo...
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reordering the cosmic powers turning the tables at the stone table metzger uses a metaphor lifted out of chronicles of narnia to illustrate the deep magic of christs atoning work which serves as the foundation stone for breaking down divisions between god and us and between us and others including consumer divisions between different races and classes and making us all one p. 68 i found this cha...
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disordered vision battling the consumer balrog in this chapter metzger explores 3 issues that have blinded the american and canadian evangelical church consumerism upward mobility and homogeneity in the church. first our consumerism has led to the treatment of people as commodities and not as persons in communion p. 46. human value is based on usefulness and likability. the same holds true for chu...
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im starting my habit of book reviews again. here we go.a a faulty order retreating battle camps and homogeneous units heres how chapter 1 begins for this book awhat did the late jerry falwell and his liberal counterparts have in common at least on the religious and cultural surface the biblebelieving soulsaving oldworld moralmandating rev. falwell and his liberal counterparts were worlds apart. ho...
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...holy spirit carries out the will of god to build the church. this is the objective truth of the pastoral ministry the church is the work of the holy spirit my ministry isnt work really. the spiriwww.d ashhouse.c om hedge fund news 15 january 2008 fintag comment sweaty palms. we are all gearing up to the earnings statements of the investment banks. it is a nervous time. jobs are on the line. the mar...
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can it really be six years since i first started blogging in that time there have been so many developments trends and changes. i still keep in touch with some of the original contacts i made in the world of blogging. a few have since stopped blogging but a remarkable number have their original blog and continue their routine of sharing their reflections and experiences with the world. as the...
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... on pagan christianity im linking to the reviews that are similar in conclusion to mine mainly to counter the idea that some namely me are taking statements out of context twisting franks words etc. this is a seriously good review by trevin wax pagan christianity if taken seriously by many christians will not lead to a renewal of the church but to ecclesial amputation as more and more disen...
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what other church is there besides institutional theres nobody who doesnt have problems with the church because theres sin in the church. but theres no other place to be a christian except the church. theres sin in the local bank. theres sin in the grocery stores. i really dont understand this naave criticism of the institution. i really dont get it. frederick von hugel said the institution of the...
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prime of place has to go to a new blogger brand spankn new peter enns professor of old testament studies at westminster seminary philadelph ia. stephe n murray has been overly gracious to me by including me in his list wow thanks im humbled by the much more important names in his top ten christian bloggers of 2007. chur chrelevanc e had some humdingers what the heck is a humdinger 10 ways to gain peop...
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this is a thoughtful and welldone piece on what christmas was what it has become and what it could be once again. what if . . . ht dashhouse ac advent conspiracy from scott andreas on vimeo.......
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i read an interesting post called napoleons secret to time management. the post stated one of the greatest military strategists who ever lived napoleon was not coincidentally a master at getting things done. like any general he had to deal with a tremendous amount of paperwork. his strategy was to stack everything on his desk in a series of six piles. he would take care of the most urgent busines...
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...th godin. the more people who play freerice the more advertising theyll sell and the more rice they can give away. the problem with church from darryl dash. now this post is a mustread. darryls blog dashhouse.com is absolutely outstanding so do subscribe you wont be disappointed. and to go along with this post i had to read bill kinons insight consumerism sucks please buy my bookand come to my conf...
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this is an extremely helpful summary on a recent message delivered by tim keller called what are the risks for evangelicals here is how dash house describes the talk...keller talks about whats happening within the evangelical movement rightnow. theres a new hostility toward evangelicals in culture andpostevangelicals the emerging church are also expressing criticisms. howshould evangelicals respo...
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...ue attention and the other necessary parts of the body dont get to play their roles. but still the myth of the extraordinary leader persists even especially in the church. read the rest here at dashhouse.com thanks b. kinnon......
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a freakin great quote. and yet the early church grew and grew and grew even without intentional evangelistic strategy or ministry. how by being the most attractive community in the roman empire. read more... this is why i love family guy. this comic is funny and true and sometimes i get frustrated having to reexplain something to someone close to me that ive already explained on my blog ...
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...oes not make sense without a large number of people who show up and do virtually nothing except sing and listen. thats the more harsh way of saying it and sometimes i try to be a lot more diplomatic. dashhouse.com has an excellent post much more kind to the current struggles of the local evangelical church called moving beyond church services. some question if we really have to choose between being ...
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kath and i can feel new stuff a foot around us.a our conversations for the past week have been full of future possibilities.a here are some things we are thinking about the evolving church conference i can say without hyperbole that this was one of the best conferences i have ever been too.a it was thrilling and engaging.a i was also fortunate enough to share the experience with kathya tha...
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...phaneia for putting the conference together. my notes are available as blog posts but theyre also available as one long html document and as a pdf document requires the free adobe reader. source dashhouse.com......
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