tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-56533622012-01-23T18:33:31.485-08:00'I must be an acrobat, to talk like this and act like that...' -Actung Baby,U2 I am Jacob Bailey. I have been writing here for a while now. I am 27 years old, on the brink of moving to Spain. I love my wife and two beautiful children. Glad you stopped by - please let me know you were here by posting a comment.Jacob B.http://www.blogger.com/profile/00726585961917489257noreply@blogger.comBlogger2971100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5653362.post-1122140432369552912005-07-23T10:37:00.000-07:002005-07-23T10:45:09.010-07:00

Hey, that's all. That's a wrap here. I am moving over to www.4peregrinos.com. It's been fun. Blogger has been absolutely solid and totally free. What can I say? I would love to hear from at the new site! Peace.---Jafro(jacob)---

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I think a blog, i mean this place rigth here can be on of the loneliest spaces to "occupy". It must be something like living in a large city but knowing and interacting with no one. It must be that kind of loneliness - surrounded by so many but connecting with so few. That's internet blogging at it worst. I have been there. Here are the warning signs: You ruthlessly check and recheck you blog

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The one campaign is up and running, it is looking stong. Tania and I are in. Please come along. Pray, write, buy the wristband do everything to stand with a growing number of people who care about Africans. I am. I will. Go to www.one.org

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Coldplay nails it again with their new x&y album. Excellleeennnttt!!!I have been reading this= http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1573223093/104-0943000-6574365?v=glance. Here's cool quote by the guy who just wont go away...he's unreal. I wish it were different. I expect less but he comes with more and keeps showing up everywhere....in my life. "Right now there is the biggest pandemic

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http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/news/061105_nw_tracygay.htmlIt just so happened that Tania's cousin Jarod was graduating from West High (Tracy) yesterday which become one of two targeted demonstrations by the group from Kansas - self titled "God hates fags." See their website http://www.godhatesfags.com/main/index.html. We (me and Rob - Tania's brother in law) went outl looking for them yesterday

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I know. I know. It's been dead air here. Dead space. I am sorry. I am way too busy to even waste my time here describing it. Anyway. I am reading a great book (3 books) by Robert Farrar Capon and another great book called Bono - which is the documented on going conversation with the dude. Way...cool. Both are different yet equally stimulating...For the flat details about our move toward spain see

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Love you guys!

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We're just packing and trying to pick up and land in Spain in a couple of months...see more at www.thebaileycrew.com/ministryjournal.asp

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A number of times over the past couple of months I have felt uncomfortable in my own Americo/Caucasian skin. I am a player in the most powerful nation/system the world has ever known. I am an American. I hail strongly from the United States whatever that means. I wonder why? This “land of the free” this home of “the brave” I am not so proud of. The more I learn about where we have been, and the

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ThismeansScottnow has ourtickets in hand!Aug 14 - Lisbon...it's gonig to be awild one!

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I found my printed copy of Dwight's eight pages of questions today and it made me laugh. I love it though. If we really engaged even a few of these questions we (the church/the Christ-followers) would find ourselves in a better place.Here is the essay/questions: I have to ask - by Dwight Friesen

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As things heat up with DA Carson's new book BECOMING CONVERSANT/EMERGING CHURCH : Understanding a Movement and Its Implications and Andrew Jones leads the emergent bloggers response I am totally tuned in.It is so crazy to be in Kentucky right now. Within days two very high profile events are playing out. The first is the Worship-Art-Liturgy-Preaching Conference and the second is this:James Dobson

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Back in 2000 sometime I wrote out this dark prayer...I just rediscovered it today. It kind of surprized me. I mean...I didn't know that back then (5 years ago) I was asking these questions...anyway. I think today my questions are more open and I let them come out...back then I would have never shared this with anyone. But I thought I should capture it here in it's raw, unfriendly state. I hope

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What do you do when the Jesus freak whostarted your church dies from AIDS?Simple. Erase him from history. I will see this film...when it becomes available after the festival. Will you?

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Thinking about Rahab today. I found a link to here story in James 2:24ff...but anyway. Who is this lady who goes down with the cloud of witnesses in the biblical text (Heb. 11) as one of the "faithful." I mean I thought she held out on her own people, was a traitor, and not to mention a whore, not to mention a liar, and not to mention she made a deal with God's people that worked out in her favor

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Lou Nemeth and I spent all of yesterday with Alan Hirsch and Michael Frost at a their "Shaping of Things to Come" conference in Tacoma.This conference was inspired by their book on Missional Communities/Missional Church. Below are some their thoughts (bold) and my reponse (italics) to those ideas.The four pillars around which a missional community circles (Frost AM):1) Proximity - to the people

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Rogier: What, in your eyes, are key-essentials for churches that desire to reach postmodern people? Dr. Grenz: The ultimate key is "community." The best apologetic we have in the postmodern context is the vibrant, local community of disciples who are loyal to Christ, that is, a community in which the power of the Spirit is transforming relationships. As many of my friends in IVCF tell me,

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I am writing from Kelso WA - our hotel room. First entry from wireless! Awesome...plug and play piece of cake thanks to the front desk. Free too! Anyway...we are on the road with some friends talking about Spain at different churches inviting others to join us.I am enjoying thoughts by Now and Ever on the passing of the pope...and how he connects it to Christ and the war between conservatives and

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download video here

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Hummer hybrid a slightly less socially irresponsible status symbolWith the introduction of its new gas/electric hybrid, Hummer hopes to reach the niche market of motorists who want to appear concerned about the environment, but for whom the popular Toyota Prius just doesn't turn enough heads with its sedan body and measly $20,000 MSRP. The $60,000 Hummer Laverde (a contraction of the Spanish

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I am attracted to a conversation taking place over at:www.dwightfriesen.comGo check it out under an entry called Emerging Orthodox v2.o and follow the comments link to alot of good stuff. It is all about the Eastern Orthodox expression of faith. With broad strokes and articulate (although sometimes inaccessable) language these guys are painting mysterious pictures of the inherent beauty of what

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Our new (little) car! Honey I shrunk the car (and painted it green!). This baby is waiting for us when we get to Spain in July.

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what do you do when the cross seems empty to you?And the empty tomb doesn't mean anything doesn't do anything for you?Why do I feel so unattached to these sacred symbols? Why do I feel guilty for saying so?Who robbed me of their meaning? Should I call it up or let it lie?Why have they been drained of all their supposed stirring power? Or am simply refusing to do the stirring?Why do the words I

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Doug and Ruthie were with Tania and in Chicago for the immersion weekend. They can both be seen in the videos linked by the previous post. Doug's thoughtful response is below. I vote with him saying "me too Doug!"----------------------------------------------------------Ruthie and I recently spent some time in Chicago with our partner organization, International Teams. During our time away, we

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my video response to our weekend in Chicago is on line now at our other site. Go here to view the video in pieces. In some sense it captures alot of the "feelings" of the weekend which was amazing...I am still reeling for all the things I stumbled on to. Wow! See Doug's poem below...Hoping to go to this conference before I leave: The Eyes of the Heart June 21-23.----------------------------------

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there's always too much to say, too much to think through, too much to see, too much to take in. Sometimes it's more than I can bear. Life is just so deep, so illusive, so other, so fluid. I try to grap it - take it - hold it - understand it - for just a moment, less then a second even, but even there it's gone...I almost have it...then just as I close my hand. Gone.Like I wish I could sit here

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Me and the "Fam" are enjoying a nice lazy Saturday afternoon. I have been...well...not so lazy i guess. 75% of the editing for a short film about our trip to Chicago last week is done. I am really excited about it...it is like the best stuff I have ever worked on...should be fun to slap altogether in the end into a DVD. anway...Still at IT in Elgin. I got a little stir crazy so I walked down here

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Spent four days in Chicago with ITeams folk. This was our "immersion" weekend. We met up with Mark Soderquist (and family) who live in Lawndale (one of the poorest communities in Chicago). The Soderquists have been living their among the primarily African American community for 15 years. They are serving the church down their and have paid some dues for racial reconcilliation. Our time with Mark

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Here is a video we put together from last week's training at IT. It's just so much fun...I just, I just can't stop!!View here - BTW, once it downloads you might want to drop the size of your media player screen down to about 50% of full screen. The video quality will improve the smaller you make it.Chris Warren shot all the clips and I edited them...there may be some "opportunities" within ITeams

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I have enjoyed getting to know a handful of others who are ITeams this week with me. Many of them will be leaving tomorrow. It is so encouraging to be able walk alongside such committed and dynamic young Christ followers who are thinking forward and giving their young lives to the King and his Kingdom in new ways. You're the MAN Dema! Chris Warren will be off for a year in Moscow of youth minitry

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We uploaded a video of our family having fun the first couple of days at ITeams...we'll be here through March 20th. You can see how cold it is for us "Pacific Northwesterners."You can also see a little bit of our fat apartment that I am writing from write now. It's really nice!Download it here.

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But for the grace of God we are crushed under the weight of his holiness. I wonder if that is true? I think it's true. It sounds good. It kind of makes sense. I know I wish it was true. I know I hope that it is true. I know that tomorrow, in order to survive, I will have to live at though it were true. It is my truth right now. It may change...it may prove to be untruth altogether, but right now

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hola from IT. Spending all day in classes learning about IT and their whole game for sending people out. This has been good for Tania and I, we are out of our Olympia circle and connecting with new folks. There is cool group of younger folks who are going to be serving as "interns" for IT over the next few months in different places in the world...each one going somewhere different.I sat with a

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Tania and I arrived here at IT headquarters today...it was like a strange dream like one of those where you know what's going on but something is just strange and you can't figure it out. Anyway...I realize we are in the middle (or starting point?) of a huge transition...arriving here to Chicago was really getting the chapter started...I mean really getting into what's next for us...I know we are

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You're in the mudIn the maze of her imaginationYou love this townEven if that doesn't ring trueYou've been all overAnd it's been all over youIt's a beautiful dayts a beautiful day"as we move toward Spain you can track with us here: the road to Santiago

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if I can't be grateful for this I must not know God!

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I've been thinking today about my faith journey...partly because I have to (for IT - it's part of the training piece coming up Friday) and partly cause I am just curious. These thoughts led be to explore my own blog a little bit a look and reflect. I went back to August 2003.That was pretty awesome...becaue it is all there. I remember when I wrote this or that...when I felt this or that and

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where bright streams once flowed unendingnow only a dusty dry stones remain.It's a place you don't dare stay or you might dieit's movement that matters sometimes morethan substance or concrete forms in which you find yourself.My life is not static or stable but this is my faith journey.

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scott's quick action has got us tracking with the August 14 / Lisbon, Portugal * show. That's right we are throwing a hail mary to try and land tickets for the final show of the Vertigo tour. I would appreciate your sincere prayers about this, intercede for me as we try and get close to u2 in 2005 (or at least cross your fingers).

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vertigo. U2!

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Ueh dos!

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I may be down, but I am not out. 11:01am Saturday me and Jord were online competing for general admission access to U2 at Key Arena in Seattle, April 24. We saw two tickets (upper tier) but didn't get them because we needed 4. We tried again. Timed out. Tried again. Timed out. 7X later we were in the car to tickmaster at the local Fred Meyer. Line of 25. All on the phone with significant others

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if you haven't read the CNN transcripts of Larry King's show with Brian McClaren and others then you can do it here. McClaren's voice of compassion and wisdom, the moves out of the dichotmistic past is refreshing. Dwight writes kind words about him here and A. Jones writes about him here. The LaHayes' responses seem so freakin odd to me. What are they thinking? These conclusions can only be held

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i think maybe that on this side of post-modernity (post-post moderninty, emerging something or other, next, what-ever-you-want-to-call-it-make-up-your-own-words-if-you-like land) the landscape i one of cynicism and deconstructiong but also deep optimism, but not joy. i wonder if maybe when EmergentMan (symbolic figure representing the Jesus' bride today or tomorrow) emerges completely he/she

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our web site is up and running...follow the link at the top of the menu list on the right and check it out. Thanks goes to Jesse R. who put in the hours for me on this thing...

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I have been really focused in the inate power of story this week. To speak of life and our experiences and the experiences of all humans for that matter in terms of story is refreshing. Story is helpful in that is translates up and down and through the middle. We can speak of story in terms of the large metanarritives that man people subscibe to, we can speak of story in terms of the story of

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I have been climbing again. Olympia opened a new gym called Warehouse Rock Gym. I have waited a full 5 years for this place to finally arrive. We bought a 90 day membership...I have been down there to boulder now probably 6 times since. I love it. I just bought new shoes. You can see them here. So last night I laid in bed from 10:30 to midnight remembering...I thought back to those early days in

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chameleon...my new shoes...it's amazing what a shoe can do. It's a little known secret that in rock climbing it is all about how you use feet not your arms.

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man I wish i could keep up with this thing linking it to my life. But I can't (really). I mean this is an attempt but it'll fall short I am sure...anyway... do I recap or rant? recap or rant? hmmm.... life is moving along so fast...we are on par for making the move to spain a reality . People keep giving to make this thing happen...and we are trying hard to do our part. I am fearful and

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I am in a suspicious mode of easy answerism…for too often too many times us church people have given real people dumb answers to their deep questions and dumb solutions to there deep problems…I am more inspired by Christ to join people in the pain and help them out of it that to yell down to people to climb up to where I am at…go figure…the incarnation…that had something do with God coming down

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my beauty queen, my wife!

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this journal now co-exists with a new one for Tania and I (found here or linked on the right). I don't know how I feel about keeping two spinning...this one is not "open." I say that regretfully...yes I am still hiding myself from some people. Why do I enjoy this relatively "safe" space...I don't know. It isn't right though. I long for the day when I can let the chaos of who i am unfold freely

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our website is coming...

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So...I am back again. In my study this past week I latched onto a theological ride with NT Wright (Tom Wright - Anglican Bishop of Duram). That has been beautiful. Go here to his home page for loads of resources to explore or go here to his converstation with Emergent. Both of these places have mp3's to download. His content is great plus the added benefit of UK accent and humor makes his

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Okay it's not new years day....and I didn't even spin New Year's Day (by U2) on new years day this year...all though it was going through my head all day! So much to say - so much to convey (Tracy Chapman). Yesderday (according to my wife) I started singing a Dave Matthews song from the pulpit!? I was speaking about the kingdom of God and I said something like "right now we live in between...in

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This is the link into the conversation that Walter Bruegemann had with Emergent. I am listening in right now...discussion on certitude vs. fidelity...ummhhmmm...good stuff for me. Brueg is lifting fidelity for us to consider over the predominate notion that certitude is the goal. I with the F guys having lost my C.

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Awe...hope today...in the form of helpful thoughts by Walter Brueggemann. He says about Genesis' proclamation: "The news is that God and God's creation are bound in a relation that is assured but at the same time is delicate and precarious." Oh...that's spacious...and realistic...and at the same time optimistic. I feel better. That may sound strange, but it is true. WB moves in new directions

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By about 3:28pm I finally had had enough. What was it. Something must have gotten stuck in my sweater during the wash. It itched at the bottom of my neck right in front. It couldn't be...that would be stupid. Did I actually have it on backwards? Yep. Dunce. Why didn't they tell me? That's a dumb question. Maybe they didn't know. Oh, well. All I have to do is turn it around. There that's much

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Sometimes I find myself totally lost in the "Emergent" conversation or matrix of different thoughts. Sometimes I don't care much...cause it is all so confusing...where does the "common Jon Doe Christian" find their place? What is essential? What info do we act on? Where do we draw lines? Where do we erase some? Who do we stay connected to? Who do we leave behind? How do we chose one author over

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transition

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This article was supposed to go through Rolling Stone, but lost out to something else and ended up here. So I have sent words back and forth to Jonah for a while...he's is one of the dudes mentioned. I can appreciate what these folks are attempting for God...actually back in 99' Tania and I were part of a team from our college that spent a week in Cancun doing something similiar. But the short

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This is the commercial that is stirring alot of pots right now. So what do I think? Well...it's good. I don't know about the values of the CCC...or recent beliefs...but I like the commercial. I think it's funny that it couldnt be aired. But you know I would never fight that fact. I am reminded by a recent article in Sojo magazine, by David Batstone I am not called to join the culture war but

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I apppologize I couldn't restrain myself...I told you I was freaking out...no I swear it isn't a demon it is just a digital camera trick...

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If this went away I would not have given it attention. But here it is again. BBC is shedding light on how young Japanese people are finding community a source of strength to end it all. See the article called Japan's internet 'suicide clubs' Sometimes we speak of "community" as if we in the church created the word, or as if it is a "Biblical" word that comes from scripture...and yet in this

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I am reading a book this morning called For the Beauty of the Earth...below the auther quotes a stimulating piece from Sierra, "Having created God in man's own image, Western religion has adopted an anthropocentric mythology that separtates God from Creation, soul from body, and man from Earth. It is this dualism that prevents us from relating not only to the natural world, but to ourselves."

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spent some time editing things here this morning...sorry the comments thing has been limited. Well I changed that so it should be open to all who wish to comment. Here's a link to me and Tania's new ministry jounral called the Bridge. This will be a connection for us with folks at home and a place where people are invited to interact with us and pray... It's different than this one in that both

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Is all of life is less like a test and more like an ivitation? Is it not so much about if we are passing or failing as much as it is about how we are responding?

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had a wonderful evening last night with our friends the Warnkes. They just kept dumping blessing on us. First they hosted us in their beautiful home (Dash Point) that overlooks the sounds. Second they fed us (oh yeah and Jeff shared his home brew too! Good stuff!). Third they let their children entertain ours. Fourth they shared some of the the people they are growing to love with us by inviting

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"Every idea of Him, must in mercy shatter." -C.S. Lewis on prayer

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Here are 5 quotes from C.S. Lewis on Post-Christian Europe (from The Quotable Lewis c. 1962. Thanks JP) – 1Christians and Pagans had much more in common with each other than either has with a post-Christian. 2The gap between those who worship different gods is not so wide as that between those who worship and those who do not… 3...many men of our time have lost not only the supernatural light but

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sometimes life sucks. And sin crouches at the door and we let it burst in and tear up the interior of our heart. And sometimes we get "stuck in a moment." And yet life goes on. And grace arrives much like a sandwhich given by one buddy to another who forgot his own (or in my case miscalculated his - thanks J.Smith!). And grace moves us on. I find myself today having a keen knew perspective on my

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Andrew Jones wrote today about 3 stages of the emerging church. I find his explaining here encouraging it captures some themes I have been experiencing in my life especially the first two: 1) Barn burning (my experience over the past year and a half) 2) Dumpster diving (so experiences lately have really echoed this for me - example: celtic and catholic discoveries and much more) The third (lego

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so I posted something yesterday that was so rediculous that I ejected it hopefully before any one was able to read and then conclude that I had finally lost the cheese on my cracker and cracked. What was I thinking? Well...a whole lost of stuff that I can't articulate well at this point. And that is the point: WHY ARE WE ALWAYS TRYING TO ARTICULATE WHAT IS SO FAR BEYOND US? Why don't we settle

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after

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before

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Barna Update-11/9/04 A bi-weekly e-mail from George Barna Last week’s election focused much attention on the “values voters.” People with strong religious convictions were said to be a major reason for President Bush’s re-election. Again, I have strong "religious convictions" (evangelical too) that led me to vote for the Senator. As if people who did note vote for Bush do not have values? That's

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This isn't me. I am not with these guys. My roots are evangelical and my values, I hope emerge from the Bible...more specifically from what we see of Christ in the gospels...I am a "values voter" too, but I voted the other way. It is sad to see a such a huge majority of the "chrisitian" population be so easily and arrogantly swung in one direction. There is so much more to the story than just

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"This little injured boy lost his father to US bombing, hospital officials said." -BBC

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As our US forces enter Falluja today and begin a major offensive battle (of this level not encountered since Vietnam - according to CBS) I can't help but connect dots to Bushes re-election and re-vamp of force and dominance. What are we doing? How many will be lost? And for what purpose? I fear until the violence comes home again we will continue to act in this manner confusing freedom with

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The sun still rose today. It's november 3, 2004 the day after. The election is over but the nation stands defeated. What will the days ahead hold for us as americans who try and live our lives in a divided nation? I can only speak for myself. I find myself in a precarious position, stretched out in crucifix posture, holding the tension of both sides. The polarization is haunting as both sides

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abandoned ship by Congdon

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I have recently discovered the life/work of William Congdon. I am totally captured by this man and what he has left behind. Below are some of his words toward the end of his life. I am so very grateful today for the left brained people who call us deeply toward the Imanent One who stands strongly veiled behind history and creation....here are Congdon own words: "I started painting again a month

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I find it slightly ironic that page 35 in the latest Christianity Today issue is a (Zondervan) advertisement for the Purpose Driven Life book ("It's not just a book. It's a movement" off hand comment - yah how convienient for Zondervan and Rick Warren) and page 36 begins the article called "The Emergent Mystique" in which Andy Crouch critiques the emerging church. Oh, the watershed. I read it, I

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Check the project for a new american century here. what do we do with this? This kind of thinking for four more years could be so destructive to mankind around the globe...Has anyone else heard of PNAC? Any perspectives?

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thinking about Lectio Divina (in community) and dreaming about "club like" worship services where the rythms of lectio are used to pace a Christ centered worship experience. The four rythms of lectio...(1)listening for God's word to me right now, (2)meditating on God's word or phrase, (3)offering that back to Him as prayer, (4)resting in his presence...seem to lead us into his presence...how do

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just soaking in a cup of afternoon coffee, and the internet, and tech tunes. I lumped all my tunes that I have uploaded to my computer into helpful play lists called "All Rock," "All Tech," and "All Smooth." Very nice I am sitting here letting my PC take me on a tour of my own tunes we are somewhere in All Tech rolling through some Moby funk I think...sick. Brewing is this discussion with my

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I just began The Younger Evangelicals by Robert Webber. And now I am in a real delima. What do I do with all of it? It's like reading along and I'm saying "yah, yah, yah, it all makes sense. Sure that's my world...I mean you don't have it to a "T" but hey, I give you props Webber, your pretty close to the target." But now what...? I mean know I got this book not so much for me...I mean I hope it

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Had a great evening last night with Andy and Joy. Tania and I went to school with Andy at Simpson and then met Joy up here in the Pacific Northwest District (CMA) - she is a children's pastor at Lighthouse Church in north of here. They met and got married and make a wonderful pair. We really enjoy our time with them. It is interesting to live in such different worlds and yet the same one too. We

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"Economic policy and abortion are not separate issues; they form one moral imperative. Rhetoric is hollow, mere tinkling brass, without healthcare, health insurance, jobs, childcare, and a living wage. Pro-life in deed, not merely in word, means we need a president who will do something about jobs and health insurance and support for prospective mothers." - (Glen Stassen is the Lewis B. Smedes

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wondering about leadership today? has it got you scratching your head? Here are some helpful thoughts about it from John O'Keefe.

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ahhh... that so much...better. No, I don't feel black and blue right now. Gray? Yes, I hope always things are a bit gray...but black and blue...not right now. May this outward projection always reflect my inward posture.

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what if we let go of agendas (personal) for the sake of relationship (other)? what if relationship was our only agenda? but what about places where survival is necessarily the only agenda? how can the "us" in these places possibly let go of survival for the sake of relationship? or could it be possible that in embracing relationship we survive?

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what if the best way to love people... what if the best way to love the church... what if the best way to love Christ... was to offer myself in relationship? In as much as I am who I am right in the moment and express what I feel and discern and think...in as much as I bring that to the table and enter into relationship with others... I mean don't we simply amuse ourselves or hide? Those are

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alongside the film City of God, under special features, is an amzaing documentary on life in the slums of Rio de Janeiro. I stand amazed and changed after watching the film twice yesterday. The on going war between the police and dealers in completely heartwrenching. The injustice the accompanies both sides and all who are caught in the middle is inhumane. What might you see if view this

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just added Scott to bloggers out left...he's my man in Spain with IT and Cafe Terra Nova in Santiago. Only time will tell if we get to be better mates in the future. I am prayin the rosary if you know what i mean!? added Jonah too. He is in Sevilla with 24-7 prayer...check him out in an upcoming Rolling Stone magazine working Ibiza for Christ....cool.

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to see through is to look beyond the criticism of the single, mid 30s woman and see her heart felt cry for community and someone who cares. (see someone in my life) to see through is to look beyond the harsh words and vulgarity pouring through the lyrics of Eminem and realize there is a wounded child behind the strong façade wishing better for other boys like him. (see album the Eminem Show

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fighting off a cold today so my body feels a bit like I am floating around in the clouds. (thanks to theraflu...!) what to say...what to say...what to say... often I like to write what I feel. But...relecting on feelings is so...well, impulsive and out of balance. Up and down, left and right...all over the place really. I desire to write from the heart. Yah, but what does that mean? "the heart"

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It's too often all about power. Positioning for power...lately I have been thinking about this and what it means when it comes to "ministry" or "sharing Christ" or whatever we call it. I love power - it taps my sinbent heart. As a minister that's so dangerous. Call me a son of hell rightly so, but it's true. Usually someone is in need and "we the ministers" are called in to spiritually meet that

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