Heres a picture taken from my front yard last week in Stromness, at exactly 9am, on Oct 23rd, 2004 AD, a moment that some would call significant. The photo was uploaded here on Flicker using a free beta client for Mac called 1001. The software is great. It streams recent photos from my Flickr account…
Read MoreThoughts from Aberdeen
My 2 hour meeting with Steve Steele went well. Steve flew up to see me on his way to Cairo, and I took a ferry over to see him in Aberdeen. Long rough ride, though. And now i am home again but i cant sleep. Steve had a lot of wisdom and good advice for…
Read MoreUpdate: oct 27
Here’s an update on whats up with us: – Internet access is sporadic right now – I apologize for the comment spammers and their porno sites – they have been very active but i have deleted them all. The worst thing about not having regular access to my site is the time it takes to…
Read MoreAbderdeen
Off tonight to Aberdeen for a meeting tomorrow with Steve Steele, who used to head up DAWN Ministries. We will be discussing emerging culture ministries around the world and will be figuring out how to save the world on a budget. I will take the ferry across for £13 There is a possibility that i…
Read MoreAll is well
Our house is great!!!! bigger than we thought. Just right for us. And it overlooks the harbour. Debbie and I get a bedroom to ourselves for the first time in over a year. It even has more than one toilet which is a bonus. We are unpacking and making sense of the furniture. Its a…
Read MoreBooks: Sweet and McNeal
2 new books that look worth buying. No Skinny review here, because THE PUBLISHERS DID NOT SEND ME ANY FREE COPIES OF THEM (HINT) but here they are anyway . . . Out of the Question by Len Sweet. Check out the tasteful website for this book. And Coop is raving about Reggie McNeal’s The…
Read MoreIn the Beginning
In the beginning God created . . . I just had to say that, at exactly 9am, because 9am on 23rd of October, 4004 BC, the world was apparently created by God who kept a very tight schedule. “Dr. John Lightfoot, (1602 – 1675), an Anglican clergyman, rabbinical scholar, and Vice-Chancellor of the University of…
Read MoreMoving to Orkney (updated)
UPDATE: ahhhhhhhh . . .we be here . . . at last. what a long and exhausting trip!!! Thanks for your prayers and thoughts – we felt God’s covering the whole time. We couldnt get back in the country at the border. They told us to go to Lille, France and apply there for a…
Read MoreSleepless in London
Cant sleep. Wife is at the hospital for another night with Abigail. The house is not as packed up as it should be, for a family moving tomorrow and having to squeeze in a family drive to FRANCE this afternoon. Maybe i should drink some Olvatine or something.
Read More100 Worship Tricks
Jonny Baker has exceeded himself with his absolutely incredible collection of worship experiences (he calls them tricks but i dont like that word much). Check out Jonny’s Worship Tricks when you need some inspiration for Sunday’s worship, or if you are just curious what worship looks like at alt. worship emerging churches in UK and…
Read MoreAnti-MacDonlds Day
Anti-MacDonlds Day today. Big protest downtown in London.
Read MoreAbigail recovering
Our 9 year old daughter Abigail is being kept in the hospital longer so we are delaying our trip to France this weekend to get the visa. Abigail? Diabetics have a much harder time when they get the flu, and Abigail got really dehydrated. She is recovering at the hospital and will be let out…
Read MoreSoftware: 2 Cheap and 5 Free
CHEAP 1. Skype for VOP internet calling. People are raving about Skype. Jordon Cooper is using it and Brad Smith sent me an email this morning with a recommendation to save BIG dollars on overseas calls using internet instead of your phone. 2. Ecto is my blogging editor of choice. I use it daily. If…
Read MoreBusy busy . . BUSY
3 days before we leave for Orkney. We are packing up our £150 caravan with clothes and toys and things, cleaning the house, and working on admin stuff: Visas – i pick up an application for missionary visa tomorrow and we have to drive to France and back on Saturday to get our visa renewed.…
Read MoreSocial Action
2 ways the UK churches are making a difference: Protest4.com has a meeting in London Oct 29-31. Blurb: “Phil Lane, an international expert on human trafficking, will be there to help us explore human trafficking, by presenting the issues and facilitating discussion for action.” This is something set up by the emerging churches/ alt. worship…
Read MoreEmergent the Gathering
Oct 18-21. Emergent Gathering is one of my favourite Emergent events. It costs nothing, there are no superheros on the stage, you get to hang out with everyone. i wish i could be there but cannot come this year. But i do HIGHLY recommend going. It was Glorieta New Mexico where we held the New…
Read MoreBilly Graham on being “SAVED”
Billy Graham speaks out on getting “Saved“: “We have domestic problems; our homes are breaking up. We have business problems, health problems, family problems. Sometimes we want to scream at life. We want to escape. We try to escape the reality of everyday living by using drugs or alcohol, or even by trying suicide. We…
Read MoreThanks to Luke Halls
Big thanks to video artist Luke Halls, motion graphics guru, for lending us one of his many Mac computers during our time in London. Luke is a video artist who has worked with some of my favourite artists, including David Grey and (so I heard) U2. I am clearing off my data and junk from…
Read MoreQuantum Servanthood
“Whether we like it or not we have moved from “Ozzie to Ozzy;” we have moved from the Nelsons to the Osbournes; from Harriet to Sharon, from Ricky to Kelly. We have moved from the modern to the postmodern/emerging; from the linier/absolute to the non-linier/subjective; from science/evidence to spirit/feelings; from intellect/truth to experience/real; from order/dictated…
Read MoreRivertribe in the house
The Aussie band Rivertribe is rocking up to our house tonight and will stay until Saturday. A few of them are starting to blog now (I talked to them about blogging a few weeks ago in Portugal). Jono is already here, and we are waiting for Mike and 5 of his kids. Yes, another traveling…
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