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N.T Wright // a nice challenge to my beliefs

It’s been a little while since Kristen and I have been able to get away and just relax. So this week, we’re hitting the beach for some time to refocus and recalibrate before diving back in to the second half of the year with all of it’s new responsibilities and challenges. No internet this week, [...]

letting someone down // #fail

What do you do when you let someone down? I sit there for hours at a time and I think about everything that surrounded the event…over and over and over and over and over and over and over…
I usually accomplish nothing.
Any suggestions?

He Began the Work // let Him finish it

The blog posts have not been coming as regular as they once did and as a result there are ton of thoughts swirling in the brain-housing-group, but I wanted to drop a little thought out there that is neither profound or long, but is helping me be intentional about where I’m at and what I’m [...]

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…I’m changing…its messy…what are you doing

community culture // church culture

Someone asked me this the other day. What are your thoughts?
what do you do when leading in your church culture means that you have to neglect leading the community culture

What happens when you change // explanations

What do you do when your worldview begins changing and you have to communicate that to people who are close to you and their view is still where you used to be? What do you say when your thought processes and doctrines begin to change and its antithetical to how you’ve always understood the world? [...]

The Disappearance of God // Dangerous Beliefs in the New Spiritual Openness

Here’s a quick review of Albert Mohler Jr.’s recent book “The Disappearance of God: Dangerous Beliefs in the New Spiritual Openness.”
Mohler is the president of The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, KY and writes consistently challenging works on contemporary thought and its effects on the church. I always enjoy reading books where theology [...]

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Communion // response desired

Randomly just wondering what you think about communion. How does your church experience communion together? What makes it special for you? Do you think you see it differently than most? Why?
All skate…communion.

creators // salivate on this

This is a comment from a friend and fellow creative Chris. It was a comment, but was just so good it needed to go on the front page. It’s in response to “how to be creative:
starting from nothing… immersion in the idea or the process.
if it’s about playing with a concept, kick it around and [...]

creatives // speak up

alright all you creatives out there
when you have a craving to create
what’s your method
how does it come out
how do you get going

relationships // a little help please

All Skate…
I’m lasering my focus in on relationships both vertical and horizontal, meaning I want stuff that deals with my relationship upward and His relationship downward as well as my relationship outward, and everyone else’s relationship inward toward me.
What’s the best advice you’ve heard on relationships as it applies to either of the above?
What are [...]

tension // so strange

There’s nothing so lovely and so ugly as that weird place of tension that we must all sit in at some point or another where you long to be in the “place you know God has put on your heart” while at the same time you are in the place God has put on your [...]

Continuing the Conversation // comment

Josh Agerton commented on a post that I did yesterday about being in the world, but looking different. He basically said, “think about these two statements, they’re very different aren’t they.” So I’m wondering, what do you think of the following statements. Do they seem different to you? How do they affect you?
Be in the [...]

quick post Saturday // a short post

I’ve been loving following @gapingvoid for the creativity sake and wish I’d come up with this phrase on my own because consumerism cannot survive:
Create or Die!

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