Modern Life

I’m not sleeping thinking about computers, but I can relate over-all!  How about you?

Discipleship In Motion

 
I was reading Emerging Worship the other day and one of the paradigms that Dan Kimball was presenting is how the church is being built.  The traditional church is being built by focusing on weekend services as its foundation.  On top of the foundation is the staff and ministry team to support the weekend service, [...]

Traditional or Modern?

I was reading in Matthew 13:15 today and it is interesting to me that each person grew to deafness and then they closed their eyes! (I think this is a clear picture of what is happening within many ministries today.)
How many of us are growing deaf or have closed our eyes to what God is trying to [...]

My Life?

You may have notice the mynakedpastor.com tag on my blog.  I just heard about Troy Gramling this morning.  Troy will be on a 24-hour webcam for five weeks starting 9/9.  The thought that came to me as I read about Troy was, “what would people see in my life if I had a webcam connected to me for 24 [...]

Emerging Adventures…

I found this picture at bob.blog and thought it was too great!  I love how some of our older generation is using this time in their life as a platform to reach our younger generation.  Many of us remember the little old lady that thought our Sunday School class and made a huge impact in our lives or [...]

Motivated by???

I am in a contemplative mood this morning and I wrote some thoughts down that I’ve been thinking through in a poetic form.
 

Today I awake, but what motivation has overtaken me?
I go to the office, but the objective is another task, not the life that needs to be shown, the love of Christ.  We [...]

Emerging Love

 I’m not sure if you have seen the pomovational posters for the Emerging, but as I looked through the posters you can see the hurt, anger and frustration with life and yes even the church through the imagery and ideas communicated.  It is heart wrenching to see some of the images, but much is revealed [...]

The Bridge

I heard a story this week at camp by Doug Witherup about Hurricane Mitch that went through Honduras back in 1998.  There was a body of water and bridge in place and after the hurricane went through the river was moved and the bridge stood alone with no body of water underneath the bridge.  The [...]

My Emerging Church

1 Thessalonians 1:5 says “I came to you not simply with words, but also with power, with the Holy Spirit and with deep conviction.”  I think sometimes when we hear the words “Emerging Church” many traditional people look at it as the absence of the power of God and the focus is more on the [...]

Emerging Church and Pentecostalism

A question was posed this week…What does the emerging church look like in Pentecostalism?  I think the first think we must do is define what is emerging. 
Since emerging is to seek to engage postmodern people, especially the unchurched and post-churched, I think it clear that the emerging church and Pentecostalism is isn’t separate from [...]