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paid clergy // missional living

Wrestling with a lot and rediscovering my blog at the same time. Here’s a question that I ran across today. Because there are paid/ordained clergy, do you think unintentionally/intentionally people assume there is no need to serve or live missionally? I.e. Why should I, that guy is paid to do it? It intrigued me because [...]

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!

By love // do they know me

I’ve been meditating on this phrase this morning, “you will know them by their love.” I wonder if that phrase rings true for me basically. I can run around telling people all day long that I love people, but the line does not say, “you’ll be able to inform people that you love them,” but [...]

What a difference a day makes // pettines, pfffff

Yesterday just sucked as I allowed myself to be drawn into pettiness. But today was an amazingly productive day, not only for me personally, but I would venture to say the Kingdom as I was reaffirmed in remembering the Kingdom is about people and is not in things.
Today was not special because of me. It [...]