August 2004 – Tall Skinny Kiwi

hanging with john smith

im at greenbelt – john smith is standing next to me, having a coffee and talking about web sites. our worship thingy went well a few minutes ago.

Latest info on Greenbelt and Epicentre Roundtable. – Mark Pierson will be teaching on worship – I just added the times to the schedule (keep reading) – Ron Willoughby turned up at my house last night. He will be our official delegate to the Lausanne/Great Commission Roundtable event in Thailand next month. This is something…

Resonate: Canada Online

I have been waiting for this one . . . resonate.ca , and their blog, went online yesterday. This will be a significant website for the emerging church in Canada. They told me about it months ago, and its great to see it finally up and online. Next country to get their stuff together? Emergent…

WabiSabi at Greenbelt 03

Greenbelt last year: We did a thing called Wabi Sabi. It was a multi-generational worship experience with VJ Travis Reed and friends of highway video. There are pictures on the Smallfire site(Thanks Steve). German VJs are lined up to help us this year, but we dont have a lot of people lining up to help…

Sep 11 Evangelist

Sujo John called out to Jesus from the World Trade Center. Now he is telling the story of Jesus worldwide . . .

Connect Europe Gathering

The Connect Europe Gathering starts today. They invited me to Geneva to take part in this but . . I have been too busy and still am too busy to attend. What a pity! 50 really cool young leaders from all over Europe. This is one network that I expect great things from. Some of…

(WIRED) Cell Phone Users Are Finding God

WIRED NEWS: From Muslims who use their phones to point them toward Mecca, to Roman Catholics who collect text messages from the Vatican, religious observers across the globe are turning to their cell phones for aid and inspiration in practicing their faith. . . (more)

Wagners in da house

Bryce and Sam Wagner (Fuse Factory) and their family are in da house!!!. Great to have them here. They are some of the most talented and disciplined artists i know of. They train up VJ’s and DJ’s for God at their base in Lausanne. Bryce also produces the graphical publications for Mercy Ships. Great people.…

Gutter Punk

[This is something I wrote in 1998 about my experience with street kids. I found it on an old file – it never got published and i publish it now in its original form because it is also my confession of spiritual abuse. As a pastor, a minister, and a street worker, I sometimes found…

King’s Kruzin – altar call for hot rods

Ever since the Most Right.eous Paul Jackson went on sabbatical, the church members have been running things their own way. Apparently,they have jettisoned the traditional ministries and have turned Glenwood Community Church into a Hot-Rod club. Today’s Saturday Service is called “Kings Kruzin’” – I can only guess that this will be a highly ‘charged’…

The Gospel in a Post Christian Culture

Papers presented at this 2004 Evangelism Roundtable sponsored by the Billy Graham Center’s Institute of Strategic Evangelism are available for you to download and read. Brian M. and Brad K. have good papers. Especially Brian, who mentions my concept of “deep ecclesiology”. Curse my vanity!!!. Thanks Steve Knight for the tip.

A rotten, no-good, very-bad, horrible day

Last night was a bad night and today is not looking any better. – Samuel got taken to the hospital early this morning with what might be an asthmatic attack – They are diagnosing him now. – I was up all night fighting a flu – periods of shivering cold, and then hot smelly sweating.…

Orkney was incredible

Feels good to be back in london. We had a good drive last night and are all recovering and cleaning up. I have uploaded some photos at Flickr and you can see them on the sidebar. Here is one of my favourites – taken at a 1000 year old church in Orkney Islands. . .

Fringe Festival and 17th

We are winding up the trip and are almost home. we are in edinburgh today and are enjoying the Fringe Festival – lots of comedians and street performers. its the largest festival in the world – a million tickets sold last year and thousands of shows on every day. its our 17th wedding anniversary today…

Pilgrimage continues

Things are great for us up here. I met with the monks from Papay, and have been visiting other monastic sites here in Orkney. There are so many here that i will not get to all of them. BTW – we never actually made it to Iona. We were camping right off the island, and…

ChristianCounterCulture?

I was just looking at the ChristianCounterChristian.com web site. Good graphics, but it seems to be more ChristianAntiCulture than ‘counter’. By that i mean the thrust seems to be about non-patriotism, pulling out of media, withdrawing from secular agencies, rather than seeking the prosperity of our nations, while staying unstained by the world’s influences. By…