Theological Worldview Quiz

I took a theological worldview test and came out Wesleyan. Dang. I didn’t want to be Wesleyan. I thought John Wesley was a bit of a jerk at times, despite writing lots of great songs. I always liked George Whitefield better. “You scored as Evangelical Holiness/Wesleyan. You are an evangelical in the Wesleyan tradition. You…

Read More

Blessitts web site and Orkney

“Our website visits exploded from of all places Saudi Arabia! Our site Statistics show almost 32,000 people visited our site from Saudi Arabia in one month! The huge increase in visits was from Saudi! Now get this 10%, 1 out of 10 visits to the website came from Saudi Arabia! Out of our top 10…

Read More

A Coordinator for Emergent Village

Tony Jones (the other white Jones) was selected to head up the national work of Emergent Village. Lots of discussion on that on the Emergent Village blog and Jay has a good post on why Tony is not the Anti-Christ. The initial title “Director” did not really fit Tony and will be replaced shortly with…

Read More

Revenge of the Blogger’s Wives

I remember the good old days of tap tap tap late into the night and my wife yelling at me to get off the computer and stop blogging my life away. But now I prepare breakfast for the kids while she prepares her morning blog post. Even worse, my email jams up with comments directed…

Read More

Suddenly Seminary OFF

Sorry people – I cant even get into Suddenly Seminary tonight on my dial up connection. ADSL gets here next month (July 27) and I am just gonna have to wait. Sorry about that. “Are we we are the waiting.” (Green Day)

Read More

Who is Your Church?

“He has been restoring to the body a living knowledge of what it means to be the mystical body of Christ” Amy Chapman, Who is Your Church? ::1 My wife has been hooked on this series by our dear friend Amy (the Amy who married Derek in our back yard). Well done, Amy!!!!!

Read More

Custard

I will be teaching at the Custard Factory, Birmingham (UK) on July 2nd as a part of Resource, an ongoing training year for ministry in the emerging culture. Jonny has talked about it already and has more details. Its open to anyone who would like to learn. | was thinking about the emergent behavior of…

Read More

Alliance SCP Packing Up

Really Upsetting News: The Alliance for Saturation Church Planting involved in 27 countries and based in Budapest has announced that it is closing next year. This is a real shock and cause for much grieving. Lee Behar is the team leader – a godly and enthusiastic [en-theos] man who has acheived remarkable things as head…

Read More

BLOG BREAK UNTIL TUESDAY

Not for religious reasons but technical. Phone lines are down in our house and repairman comes Monday. Please not I will NOT be blogging nor responding to comments. Nor will Debbie on her blog. Thanks. Have a great weekend.

Read More

Blog Estate Sale: Musical Equipment

The late Larry Trammel of Ablaze Ministries has left behind a lot of musical and video equipment. It would really help out his wife if those in USA would buy some, and you know how we church people love to help out widows. Scott at emerge.typepad.com has the skinny.

Read More

Bible people

Bible People crossing my path: 1. Lovely email today from Iain Mair, Executive Director of Gideons UK. I met Gideon Andrew Gray and his wife in Kirkwall yesterday where they are setting up an Orkney meeting for tonight at St Magnus Centre (7:15pm) and tomorrow morning at an internet cafe. I like Gideons – I…

Read More

Even in Aberdeen

I am putting together a small retreat for my DAWN mission colleagues in Aberdeen, Scotland at the end of the month. I stumbled across these words today from Rachel, who i met in Norway last year. “Even in Aberdeen, in these days, the heart of the granite land; I‘m going to take off something. Something…

Read More

Getting to Orkney

Hey pilgrims . . . some of you are on your way here and need suggestions. Here are the best ways to get to us. – Fly to Inverness, catch the bus or train to Thurso, and take the short ferry (90 minutes) which goes 3x a day straight to our little town of Stromness.…

Read More

End of Week Links

– Postmodern Ministry Takes Us Back To The Bible, a good article by David Posthuma. Thanks Debra Watkins (from my home church Austin First Baptist) – “Church growth conference helps pastors feel like miserable failures” (Link) – Dan Phillips is blogging from the Thomas Merton Retreat this weekend – Embracing the Gift, CIVA conference June…

Read More

My Bio

I have updated my official biography. Those who wish to link or quote from it may do so freely. “Kerk-zijn in de postmoderne cultuur. Speciaal voor voorgangers en gemeenteleiders organiseert de Werkgroep Gemeentestichting van de VPE (Verenigde Pinkster- en Evangeliegemeenten) op zaterdagochtend 12 april een bijeenkomst in Den Haag over kerk-zijn in deze postmoderne cultuur.…

Read More

Introducing . . . emRG

Let me welcome officially a new group. emRG stands for European Missions Research Group, a “a collaborative learning network for missions researchers to jointly gather and effectively communicate accurate, relevant research in order to catalyze the multiplication of believing fellowships throughout Europe” emRG is the official research network of Hope For Europe, and one of…

Read More

Steve Collins: An Ecology of Relationships

“. . . church isn’t an organization. maybe it’s an ecology of relationships. there’s a story to live by, not a checklist. and the canonical story stops before anything gets to be an institution – maybe to save us. it’s interesting to imagine, if all forms of church were extinguished [though not belief] and we…

Read More

Emerging Missional Conference Down Under

This will be a good one to attend. July 1-3 in Melbourne. Thanks Hamo for the link. I have met most of these guys in my trips down to Australia and can say that they are not all behind other countries but actually are giving leadership to the global scene. In fact, the RE:Source meeting…

Read More

PSP Hacking

Its a month old and we are already talking about the evolution of the world of PSP hacking that traces its history way back to May 5. Now thats a fast world. And what do the hackers do? They make programs for old black and white Game-Boys, giving them a new reason to live. Viva…

Read More

The Church in Our House

Tonight! We have invited the Stromness Baptist Church to bring their mid-week service/Bible study into our house for the next two Wednesdays. Really nice people. We need to do some cleaning and cooking. And i need to get all our musical instruments in order. And everyone gets to meet our cats. This one is Squeaks.

Read More