Heres a movie I feel compelled to highlight on my tall skinny kiwi blog. Its called Kiwi! and it was created by Dony Permedi (2006). Technorati Tags: kiwi, kiwi!, video
Read MoreIt Isnt Easy Being Green
Kermit was right. It isnt easy for my wife to sail. I do a lot better than she. Pray us today. Weather has been rotten here and our ferry from Aberdeen was cancelled last night due to gale force 10 winds and big waves. They are allowing today’s sailing to go ahead but Debbie asks…
Read MoreEdinburgh with a wee beautiful pict
I am in Edinburgh Friday (today) hanging with a few Scots. Paul Thompson [wee beautiful pict] is a scream and you haf tae reed his blog wit a sco’ish accent. Paul and his mates have been pulling some young people together for Network Edinburgh. The last Dreamday is Dec 2. I think Dreamdays are getting…
Read MoreRichard Twiss and Missio Dei
Great to see First Nations leaders teaching on the mission of God. My friend Richard Twiss is heading up a conference right now in Tennessee. Its called the Missio Dei – The Mission of God for the Next Generation. Nov 9-11
Read MoreWolfgang Simson’s book delayed
Wolfgang called me last night and we had a long chat. He has delayed the online release of his new book at the request of ministry leaders around the world. It should come out in December and I will be tracking it here. In the meantime, download his previous book, Houses That Change the World…
Read MoreOut and About in November
Heres my travel schedule for this month and the cities i will be in. 10 Edinburgh 11 Aberdeen 22-24 Copenhagen, Denmark (DAWN) 25 Oxford (Fusion National Gathering) 26 Oxford (CMS, Family Blah/nu-monasticism) 27 London
Read MoreCarrying Your Dad’s Dumbbell
Just thinking about the kids of Ted and Gayle Haggard today . . . and offering up a little prayer. Its being noted that the Haggard children were in the back of the car during that interview, when news of their dad’s moral failure had become public property. Someone in the comments here on American…
Read MoreLonnie Frisbee and Ted Haggard
The Lonnie Frisbee story has some obvious parallels with that Ted Haggard. David Di Sabatino, creator of the movie “Frisbee: The Life and Death of a Hippie Preacher” reminds me in an email this morning of Lonnie Frisbee, key prophetic figure of the Jesus Movement – who gave his life to Jesus while high on…
Read More10 Uses for a Stove
Remember that Truburn all-fuel stove I installed early this year? Well its been running well and keeping our house warm with coal. Actually, last week I was using it for 10 things all at the same time: 1. Heating the house 2. Heating the hot water 3. Drying the clothes hung up in the room…
Read MoreLeith Anderson in the Search Engines
Mark Driscoll’s latest blog post on how churches should respond to pastoral crises of falling leaders (ie . . Haggard) has made me think about how churches and their web sites should also be geared to BLESS their rising leaders (ie . . . Anderson). Yesterday I did a search for NAE Interim President Leith…
Read MoreThe fat lazy blog-post that has let itself go.
UPDATE: Check out Mark’s latest blog-post where he has time to spell out some advice on how churches can respond with this kind of scandal. Hear the guy out. Lets not take one or two words from Mark’s previous post and run a cross country marathon with them. Huh??? And when you are done, jump…
Read MoreGayle Haggard – an excellent woman who can find?
I really like Gayle’s letter to the women at New Life Church yesterday. She is committed to her husband and to God and to church. An excellent woman who can find? Click to enlarge it or read the whole PDF Related: Alan: Thoughts on Ted Haggard TSK: Ted Haggard. The Video Meth Was a Bad…
Read MoreThe Church Under The Cross, J.B. Phillips (1956)
This book just turned 50 but its totally worth a read if you can find it. Phillips wrote it at the request of the Church Missionary Society as a response to reports from the “Younger Churches” around the world. Today, we would call them emerging churches. Very insightful, especially his take on the African churches.…
Read MoreLeith Anderson Chosen as Interim President of NEA
After the resignation of Ted Haggard, Dr Leith Anderson has been chosen to be Interim President of the National Association of Evangelicals. [Press Release – PDF] I respect Leith Anderson a great deal. His books have been been an inspiration for a long time and I once heard him give a hugely memorable talk on…
Read MoreMy Wife in Houston
20 years ago I found an excellent woman. Debbie. My wife could use some prayer today. She flew into Houston last night and today she will be giving a short presentation to local pastors on the global emerging church and the new opportunities for training that are found in the latest crop of monastic houses,…
Read MoreMeth Was a Bad Choice
This image is my contribution to the conversation this morning – Ron Burgundy giving Ted Haggard a telling off. I am assuming you have memorized the various Ron Burgundy lines from Anchorman. If not, Ron’s line was actually “Milk was a bad choice”. You may have read that Ted confessed to his church yesterday through…
Read MoreHaggard and the Hazzard of Hotels
Since we are all talking about Ted Haggard [without cementing the accusations] and pastors with a little common sense are examining pot-holes and booby-traps in their own lives, I want to throw a little thought out into the blogosphere that might be of some help to traveling preachers, missionaries and executives. Not because i am…
Read MoreTed Haggard. The Video.
Update: More video with Mike Jones and Ted Haggard. Update: Ted Haggard is now number one and two on Technorati. Here’s the video where Ted Haggard fesses up to buying meth and tossing it. I am reposting this blog post with a few updates after noticing that i am the Number 1 google search result…
Read MoreFillet Steak at a Potluck
Today I weirded out some church people at the local Baptist church. It was harvest festival time and a special pot-luck meal was brought by the parishioners. I brought an eye-fillet steak, sliced thinly on a bed of garlic potatoes. I snuck it in so that no body would see who put it there. Interesting…
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