Today I am in my favorite city – London. At 3:30 pm I will be having a coffee at Scooterworks – join me if you like. Jonny Baker is. Off to Zurich tomorrow .
Read MoreNothing Will Stop Them
“Hi Andrew …more then 200 people are meeting weekly to pray for the nation…what about that…from different denominations 🙂 no barriers…nothing will stop them… O.K., I´m going. PEACE Barbara,” NOTE: Barbara is one of the key people at the beginning stages of a movement in Portugal that some of us think will be HUGE! She…
Read More‘Podcast’ – Word of The Year
“Podcast” has been awarded the word of the year by the New Oxford English Dictionary. I personally think the revolution in podcasting is overhyped. Its just audio – there is no way to search through it like you can do with text. I believe the revolution in video blogging over the past 6 months, especially…
Read MorePetra Retires
Ohhhhh gosh. Petra. Retiring. This month. DANG! After 33 years! I have to admit that I haven’t liked their music since the 80’s. But back then . . . . they totally rocked!!! I discovered them in 1985 on a mission ship called M.V. Logos. I played the albums all the time. LOUD! There were…
Read MoreIn Switzerland This Week
This week I am in Zurich, Switzerland for 4 days of strategic meetings related to DAWN Europe – getting serious, drinking coffee, talking shop, throwing snowballs, looking at counties on powerpoint presentations, drinking more coffee, thinking about one million new churches for Europe, wondering where the funds will come from, drinking coffee, getting hit by…
Read MoreHammett on Emerging Church 6.0 (final)
Dr Hammett Thank you for the email that was sent to Emerging Church leaders. It was helpful to hear from you. I am writing this as an open post – not because you need to respond to it [you dont] but because my apology to you should be public and i want to honor those…
Read More25 Years Away from NZ
Our family left New Zealand on December 5, 1980. Mum and Dad were together then, and we kids were 4 teenagers. None of us had ever left NZ. We flew across to Perth, West Australia to settle in a place with more sun and a new life. VERY exciting. Everything was new. I still remember…
Read MorePurgatorio and Upcoming Blogs
Purgatorio – Marc Heinrich’s blog is only a few months old and today he got more hits than I did. His “you might be emerging if . . . post” that i mentioned last week is already legendary. Challies made him King For a Week, and I am making him Skinny for a Week. If…
Read MoreDont Pigeon Hole Me
Thanks for taking the poll yesterday. Sorry for pigeon-holing you into a modern construct – squeezy and cheezy and painful to try it on but sometimes you have to do your best to communicate to people who live in different worlds. Speaking of pigeon-holing, here’s a passionate apologetic called Emerging Church – A Response To…
Read MoreRemembering Lottie
The Southern Baptist Churches are remembering Lottie this morning and giving out towards the Lottie Moon Christmas Offering. Lottie was an incredible woman and she was short . . . really short . . I saw a lifesize figure of Lottie in Virginia this year – she comes up to my WAIST! But, hey, I…
Read MoreHammett on Emerging Church 5.0
Intro, 1, 2, 3, 4, and now . . . I need your help on this one. Dr John Hammett brings a challenge to the emerging church. Its a valid question and deserves an answer. If you have tracked this series up to this point, perhaps you could help us out by giving your response…
Read MoreFamily Update
This is Hannah and Tamara in our town of Stromness. Oh – there’s Deb. – We are all well. – Weather has turned cold but – Our little apartment over the restaurant is cozy.
Read MoreECM Has Embraced Postmodernity . . .
The Emerging Church Movement has embraced postmodernity, they don’t believe the Bible has any value (see Brian McLaren quote) . . . and other reasons why Michael Lee is not emergent. Hilarious! Technorati Tags: church, Emergent, emerging church
Read MoreHammett on Emerging Church 4.1
Intro, 1,2, 3 and now . . . I feel with many critics, the talking and arguing goes on and we keep missing each other because of the words we use and the different meanings behind them. Conversations can sound a lot like this . . . church? emerging church! ahhh . . . no…
Read MoreFundy-Spike and Balloon Image.
I’m getting way more hits on the blog today (but not unique visits) which means there are a lot of fundy-bloggers and conservatives taking a look at the Emerging Church Hammering posts and data-mining my blog for fodder. Welcome to you all! Peace, in the name of John Calvin! I may not be interacting much…
Read MoreThe Ajax Love of God
I had an idea for an article yesterday but it was too late to submit it to Charlie at Next-Wave. He says he will publish it on the Jan issue. Here’s the thought : The Ajax love of God. Londoner Rev. Mark Fletcher started me thinking about this a few days ago on my post…
Read MoreHammett on Emerging Church 3.1
Must Our Churches Deal with Postmodernism? Further discussion on John Hammett’s critique of emerging church. From Intro, 1.0 and 2.0 Ahhh the postmodern thang. . . Can I make a prediction? Ten years from now there will be a wave of books criticizing the new forms of church for not dealing adequately with the challenges…
Read MoreAdvent 2005
Its Dec 1. Let the Christmas season begin! If you have some ideas for 2005, its about time to get the word out. As far as I know, there is no blog project lined up for this year. Some of us who participated in the world’s first GridBlog followed it up with an Advent ::…
Read MoreHammett on Emerging Church 2.1
[From Intro and 1.0] Jason Clark has some good thoughts regarding the criticisms of Dr John Hammett. Assessment of the Emerging Church : John Hammett I brings into question the primary source material – a book by Dr. D.A. Carson Assessment of the Emerging Church : John Hammett II is pleasant to read and informative.…
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