A few nights ago I listened to my friend Angus read some accounts of the Scottish Reformation from old books. One of the books [Fleming] was published in the 1600’s but Angus had a version from the 1800’s. He read accounts from that book and others of healings, raising from the dead, and a whole…
Read MoreLeft Behind: Eternal Forces
“The game is set in New York City after millions of Christians have been transported to heaven. Players are charged with recruiting, and converting, an army that will engage in physical and spiritual warfare with the antichrist and his evil followers.” Now Public Some say the Left Behind video game encourages prayer. Others say it…
Read MoreJesus Freaks, Emerging Church and 2007
Mirko from Jesus Freaks just sent me the NEW and FINAL DATES for Freakstock: 26th – 29th July, 2007 Did you know that there are 35 videos from Freakstock Festival on YouTube? None of them from my seminar, mind you. In case you were wondering about my talk on the emerging church history in Germany,…
Read MoreOrcadian Newspaper Today
The visit of the German ‘cult‘ to a number of Orkney’s churches made the front page in the Orcadian paper. It was good to hear other accounts and see unity emerge among Orkney’s various churches and denominations. Technorati Tags: orcadian
Read MoreEuroChurch Conference
Details are online here. Switzerland April 17-19, 2007. I will be there and I think they are going to let me speak on the web/cyberspace/blogging and its relation to the new church planting movements. Subject not confirmed yet but the theme for the conference is . . . Technorati Tags: church, dawn, mission
Read Moreteach me how to see
hey broken one hey you who hurt look at me let your eyes lock on to mine and shed the hidden secrets of your troubled journey your interrupted innocence the muddied waters of your broken memories teach me how to see teach me how to see because i am blinded by my dollar bills and…
Read MoreBaptists and the Emerging Church
This month is my last as Consultant for the Baptist General Convention of Texas. Its been a fantastic 6 years and we have accomplished a lot with a little. I am preparing a final report for the BGCT and will also submit it to the SBC, IMB and NAMB for their information. If you dont…
Read MoreMissing the Christmas Tree Farm
My biggest regret in having the family in Scotland this year instead of USA is the family custom of going Thornton’s Treeland in Vancouver WA to pick up our monstrous Christmas tree. When we were living in Portland, our kids used to get hayrides and drink hot chocolate in the barn next to the nativity…
Read MoreCults: We Gonna Expose Yo Ass!
“These people are grumblers and fault finders who go wherever their desires lead them, and they give bombastic speeches, enchanting folks for their own gain.” [Jude 1:16, Net Bible] Its Tuesday and the cult members are heading home to Germany. They tried really hard to hijack the church services this weekend to deliver their BOMBASTIC…
Read MoreAnother Colorado Pastor Steps Down
Number 3 in a short period of time. Denver Post has the story about Rev. Paul Barnes and Grace Chapel and his confession of homosexual relationships . .. and the blog chatter is beginning – not nasty this time, more compassionate and understanding. And again – real pity that pastors don’t have the freedom to…
Read MoreGerman Sect at other churches
We are still talking about our interraction with the German sect/cult. They went to a church in Orphir before “Schaffraneking” us in Stromness. They tried to disrupt the Bretheren church in the afternoon but they walked out when they say James Stockan from the Stromness church, who had gone over to warn them. And in…
Read MoreLausanne World Pulse: Paulo on Portugal
My buddy and team member Paulo Pascal has an article on Portugal in this months Lausanne World Pulse. Paulo has a lot of cred with the emerging church movement in his country and with the more established denominations and streams. He also keeps the Evangelical Alliance on the straight and narrow missional path. His attempts…
Read MoreFuseLab : media : art : stuff
– FuseLab media team (Switzerland) do the Mini event. They are good friends of ours and have helped us with a number of worship installations. They are also involved big time in the corporate scene. – 24/7 Prayer Vision Mix – Yusuf Islam’s (Cat Stevens) new CD reviewed on Bloggedyblog – Arts as New Creation…
Read MoreEcclesiastic Terrorism
[Video was taken by Brian Standerfer and is posted on his blog as “Schaffranek’d” and on YouTube.] It happened! The church I was preaching at this morning got Schaffraneked. Horst Shaffranek’s German cult that I told you about yesterday, sent followers around the UK to infiltrate churches and create a disturbance in order to deliver…
Read Morealways easter but never christmas
This is part of my message this morning at the local Baptist church. Other Christian traditions bring stronger attention to the incarnation (Eastern Orthodox, RCC) or the Ascension and Second Coming (Adventist . . . and Chuck Smith). We Protestants place a lot of importance on the death, burial and resurrection of Christ. Sometimes we…
Read MoreA Cult? Horst Schaffranek’s disciples
Some German believers are in town this weekend. The group they represent has a reputation for strong divisive words as well as disrupting church services, as they did 20 years ago in this town and around Europe. (read this report where the Evangelical Times called them a “Cult“) But some people here are thinking about…
Read MoreTornado in London
Interesting. A tornado tore through London on Thursday [BBC] One report said winds of 136 MPH blew out windows and broke trees in half.
Read MoreMy wife’s Knit-work is spreading.
Bea Marshall was in the paper last week in Sheffield, she told me when i was there for dinner. And my wife Debbie got a mention as “the friend who knits for her five children” and the one who inspired Bea to start knitting again. The influence of my wife precedes me . .. Click…
Read MoreThe Truth War: John MacArthur and Emerging Church
UPDATE: Reviewing the Book Part ONE – Is the Emerging Church Really the new skid on the block? ORIGINAL: Call me a romantic optimist blinded by love if you like but I think John MacArthur’s upcoming book on The The Truth War will not be a destructive atomic fundy-bomb dropped on the emerging church. I…
Read MoreBloggers and friends in Scandinavia
This is me and the DAWN European team at the Strategic Consultation in Copenhagen 2 weeks ago. The good looking guy on the far right [with the hat] is me. Our conference – in partnership with SALT, took place at this Pentecostal church. They made the best lunch buffet I have EVER eaten, including 8…
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