lj – emerging theologian 2

Tonight, LJ is haveing a hard time falling back to sleep so we are looking for a picture of Jesus with a blue sash on the internet. We find one, but it’s not exactly the one we are looking for. Then LJ explains his theology of salvation…
That Jesus is my savior…he’s my favorite one…he’s my [...]

NPC – CCC#4 – Leron Shults

It seems it is taking me quite a while to work through a lot of my thoughts that developed at the National Pastors Convention. That’s good – dang good – because my church fronted dolla’s (that’s rap for a bunch of cash) to send us. So, of course, they hope it’s somehow worth it.

The fourth [...]

Harambee this summer

Through a wildly God-ordained series of events, our high school group is following God’s lead on a summer missions trip to Harambee Ministries in Pasedena, to serve God in the greater LA region.
It’s so funny how, no matter how hard I seem to try, God gets His way and always has a GOOD way. So, [...]

NPC – CCC#3

Doug Pagitt, an early leader in the emerging movement, presented third at the seminar. He opened with some nice remarks that I thought were humble, about how this isn’t the “new cool thing” that should make all pastors feel guilty because they don’t know what is going on. Also, Doug’s presentation was the most informal [...]

Free for All

I’m on a new keyboard today and it’s rather noisy…yesterday I baptized my keyboard with a Frapachino that a student bought me. That was frustrating.
Tonight, at youth group, we are having a Free for All (much like everyother youth pastor who is enamored with Rob Bell…Aaron Swank is partly right about me…). We are going [...]

NPC – CCC#2

Ryan Bolger, (on the left; Gibbs on the right) a professor at Fuller, has recently published a new book, with Eddie Gibbs, called Emerging Churches. It is a scholastic survey of emerging movements around the US and the world that gives some definition to the movement and shows some of the areas that the church [...]

MTV saved my life

For various reasons, MTV has saved my life. Most recently, it is the advent of the broadband online channel called MTV Overdrive. I have an insaitable desire for Coldplay songs right now, and Overdirve allows me to get all the music I want and save my allowance at the same time!!
God bless MTV!
ps. comments that [...]

NPC – CCC#1

National Pastors Convention – Critical Concerns Course #1
I attended 8 hours worth of a critical concerns course on the emerging movement as published by Zondervan (all the panel was Zondervan authors…sounds fishy…) called The Emerging Church: Theology and Practice, Multiple Perspectives on the Issues with Ryan Bolger, John Burke, Tony Jones, Dan Kimball, Scot McKnight, [...]

National Pastors Convention

SO…at the end of February I went to the national pastor’s convention in San Diego. I am going to post a bunch of my notes, seminars and such, and thoughts from the various things – but as individual posts, so that converstaions can be made about them individually…so go ahead and comment on the things [...]

Ya Think!

I am just walking to get my coffee this morning and I wonder…how does it feel to muslims when we hold “crusades” and get all excited about them and gather together and all.
I bet it would feel the same as if an islamic organization was holding an event at the local arena and called it [...]