Holy Rule 8 – of Divine Office during the NIght

With the vast majority of the credit going to emergents, new monasticism is very sexy right now. However, this does not seem to be a case of bringing sexy back – monasticism was never meant to be this sexy.
Chapter 8 of St. Benedict’s rule gives direction for the nighttime and daybreak observances of the [...]

Worship Journal 6

I just finished listening to a podcast from Mars Hill Michigan where the teacher made connections between worship service and service as worship. I liked it a bunch because I like to see when people put real actions into their words. I guess I think talk is cheap, but when I see Christianity [...]

Worship Journal 5

I’ve been reading the Tozer book. He sure has some strong things to say about worship. It’s kind of interesting to see someone saying the things he said, back when he said them. I appreciate his assessment of the leaders of the church and a consideration of their influence in leadership according to [...]

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Planting Missional Churches 3

The third chapter of Stetzer’s book is the token chapter on biblical basis. These chapters in every textbook drive me crazy. It’s like every person has a biblical basis for their own slant on whatever. It’s like treating the Bible like a horoscope.
That being said, this chapter isn’t horrible, but it’s not [...]

Worship Journal 4

4. October 16, 2007
Worship this weekend was alright. The sermon was excellent for me, the singing kind of regular – it didn’t really go anywhere for me. I didn’t really go anywhere either. I know that’s not supposed to be the point of worship, it’s supposed to be like is God honored [...]

Book Nut

What Kind of Reader Are You?
Your Result: Obsessive-Compulsive Bookworm

You’re probably in the final stages of a Ph.D. or otherwise finding a way to make your living out of reading. You are one of the literati. Other people’s grammatical mistakes make you insane.

Dedicated Reader

Book Snob

Literate Good Citizen

Non-Reader

Fad Reader

What Kind of [...]

Sex God 5

The fifth chapter of Sex God goes after the relationship between risk and love. It draws the two closely together showing how great risk potentializes great love. This is used as the descriptor of the incarnation – God’s great risk because of his great love.
p.101 “As we read the Gospels, we find Jesus’ [...]

Planting Missional Churches 2

Chapter 2 of Stetzer’s book is on Redeveloping a Missional Mind-set for North America. I loved it from the get-go because he admitted that there is a great big country right about USAmerica. The one that most consumer oriented Christian writers ignore because there’s just not enough Christians there to support the Christian [...]

Sex God 4

The fourth chapter in Rob Bell’s book is on lust. It’s a great centerpiece for this book as Bell disects what makes people sin – continually. It isn’t the lust, either – it’s the willingness to accept what one is told (by your mind, desire, the devil, etc.) as truth coupled by the [...]