I am prepping up for teaching on Missio Dei in Sheffield on Jan 20th. The event is called Resource and its a part of a year long program to teach church planting in the emerging culture. I get to kick off the weekend with this topic – the Missio Dei or mission of God. The…
Read MoreFinal Friday Fax
Friday Fax is over, after 11 years of informing millions of people about what God is doing around the world every week. More on the story here. Wolfgang Simson (right) has been a fantastic friend over the past 5 years. About a year ago, in a Zurich pub, Wolfgang told me he was going to…
Read MoreMajor Trends Ten Years On
Steve Addison is talking with Howard Synder about the ten major trends he wrote about in 1986, including: 1. The coming of online global society (Internet, etc.) 2. Economic globalization 3. The feminist revolution 4. Environment at risk—global warming, species depletion, water, etc. 5. The genetics and quantum physics revolutions (DNA, superstrings) 6. Virtual reality…
Read MorePredictions for 2006
Heres a few from me. – Yahoo.com will kick butt in 2006 with its array of social networking services. It has already purchased many of the key Web 2.0 startups and is now strategically positioned in the world of social networking with companies like Flickr, Del.icio.us, Upcoming, etc. – Tagging will be more important than…
Read More40 Days of Posterity
UPDATE: I have ended up with 40 incredible quotes from this 1970 book on emerging church. 40 seems to be the going number these days for journeys so I invite you to 40 days of Posterity for the Emerging Church at Our Daily Blog. Here is today’s meme: “The emerging Church will not choose up…
Read MoreReading the Bible All The Way
Mike from Our Daily Bible Blog said that 127 people signed up yesterday and 70 the day before. Not too late to join up and travel with us as we read the Bible all the way from cover to cover in 2006. What you may not know is the incredible amount of images that are…
Read MoreFamily at the End of 2005
Half the family is sick right now so New Years Celebrations will be a dampened celebration compared to last years loud partying on the streets of Stromness. And no . . I am not going to compete in the local New Years Ba’ like I did last year. We are renting this apartment above a…
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