Archive for the ‘Church’ Category

Our Church Web Site

Friday, March 28th, 2008

Growing up with MTV will resume next Friday. In the meantime, I need your insight, advice and input. I have been working on our church website and would love some feedback. Take a look at it and give me your thoughts. http://agapeponcacity.com/

Attractional Vs. Missional

Wednesday, February 27th, 2008

I'm down with the Missional scene. I really am. We own candles. We have friends on our street. I have the cover art for "The Shaping of Things To Come" as a tattoo on my right shoulder-blade. Heck, I've been emergent since November. I have as much missional ...

Pagan Christianity

Wednesday, January 23rd, 2008

(I know commonly held opinion is that I should give The Eagles' "Hotel California" 5 stars. But I just can't. I'm being generous giving that level of pompous fluff 4 stars. But I digress.) You may notice on my sidebar that I have been reading the book "Pagan ...

The Church Has A Problem

Friday, January 18th, 2008

People don't like us very much. In the new book UnChristian the research indicates that the unchurched primarily view us as judgmental, arrogant, homophobic, too political, insensitive and hypocritical. The question that emerges for us is: what do we do about it? I've come into contact far too often ...

Being Missional

Thursday, January 10th, 2008

I am hard at work on this series of classes that I will begin next Wednesday night. I'm still having a difficult time coming up with an adequate title. I've rejected this one: "Constantine Invaded My Church and All I Got Was This Lousy Enlightenment" My objective is to posit the ...

Finding Your Missional Context in the Postmodern Matrix

Tuesday, January 8th, 2008

That's my new Wednesday night class series. I'm not going to call it that, though. I'll call it something a little more user friendly. However, one of my objectives is to trace the development in thought from the first century to todays post-modern world. To show the shift ...

So, About This Emergent Thing

Wednesday, November 14th, 2007

I really am serious. To a great degree I am with them. I find a lot of the language and unwillingness to call things what they truly are somewhat hilarious (ie. conversation instead of movement, gathering instead of worship service, etc.) but I have to admit I believe ...

Getting Started

Monday, October 29th, 2007

Today is my first day in the office marking the true beginning of my work as minister for the Agape Church of Christ. As I sit here surrounded by boxes on my wife's laptop I can't help but feel a little bit overwhelmed. That, to me, is a great feeling. Meeting ...

Osteen

Monday, October 15th, 2007

I was able to catch this segment on 60 minutes last night featuring Joel Osteen. Wow. Just Wow.

Confession

Sunday, October 14th, 2007

I'm excessively hard on preachers. I nit-pick and can be extremely unkind in my analysis of others. Volunteer preachers, not so much. But paid guys I can be merciless. I repent of that. But I still hold to the notion that to preach well you must be theologically responsible.