Holy Rule 9 – How Many Psalms are to be said at the Night Office

This rule is a detailed list of how the night office is to happen. It is wildly detailed and gives a structured routine to the monks’ lives before they go to sleep. It’s kind of like how we give our kids a routine before bed. Except for our kids it’s a lot [...]

jonny depp

LJ saw the commercial for the Pirates of the Caribean online game and so we downloaded it, created our own pirate and played it.
IT IS A HORRID GAME EXPERIENCE. totally stupid.
This confirms my previous evaluation of the POTC franchise.

Conversations

I love youth ministry simply for the conversations. On any given week I get to have a whole bunch of conversations with all sorts of young people where the topics range from families to christianity to calling to sports to music to friends to youtube to whatever. In college our definition of youth [...]

Old but Sweet

Back in October I attended a long lecture with Leonard Sweet up at George Fox Seminary. He covered a few topics and it was, at least in part, in promotion of his book, the Gospel According to Starbucks. His book does not mention the gospel being overpriced, but does make some other comparisons. [...]

1 Bennett, Intentional Disciplemaking

So, I was required to read Bennett’s Intentioal Disciplemaking for this year’s mentoring course at PESM. It was okay, kind of a holiness adaptation of Coleman’s Master Plan, which I suggest you memorize.
I’m not going to give any quotes except this one:
“Spiritual generations are God’s strategy for reaching the world. Any plan that ignores the [...]

Organic Leadership

Over the last two weeks there has been no music at Kainos. A couple that is involved with our band were away as one of them was “enjoying” some surgery – so we thought it would be a good time to not sing. An organic congregation, I believe, behaves in this way. [...]