Dan Kimball on Emerging Church Stereotyping

Dan says his new post “Please Don’t Stereotype the Emerging Church” is redundant but i think its a very necessary read. Sounds like its the beginning of a response to John MacArthur’s upcoming book “The Truth War: Fighting For Certainty in An Age of Deception“. i will probably buy MacArthurs book when it comes out,…

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Whos Got Trouble with the Tulip?

Trouble with the Tulip by Frank Page. Its out of print but i need to read it. Can someone please lend it to me? This month is officially my last month as Consultant with the Baptist General Convention of Texas and I am writing up a report of my past 8 years of service in…

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Sheffield Again

Had a good meeting with the CMS folk. Lots of changes and new projects in the air. Anders Michael (who was with me in Copenhagen a few weeks ago) had breakfast with us this morning. He and Mike Breen are working on a big European project for church planting that you will hear about very…

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Christmas tree, O Christmas tree, we bow down and worship thee . . .

Just kidding. Its only a stupid tree. But there are some people in our spiritual community that feel Christmas trees are a pagan addition to an already pagan festival. Thus they will not be pulling any crackers this season and they did not turn up at our town’s Christmas Tree Lighting ceremony (pictured). Which causes…

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Sheffield and Edinburgh this week.

Tomorrow I will be in Sheffield with CMS folk – including bloggers Jonny Baker, Mark Berry and Richard White. Richard spent some time here in Orkney with me last week. Richard and I will be discussing our ideas on how we could help people start thousands of new missional communities in UK over the next…

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Any Women House Church Planters out there?

A journalist for a well known religious publication wants to know if there are just a few or a whole lot of house church planters who are female. And I already know that MOST of the church planters in China are female. But what about Western countries? And I realize its often a team thang…

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Can You Guess?

This month’s banner (above) is from a photo of me doing something yesterday. Can you guess what I was doing?

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Driscoll Protest is OFF

UPDATE: Story on Seattle Times via Religion News Blog says 25 would be protesters turned up anyway. – “Mark Driscoll” made top ten Technorati search on Saturday – Seattle Times is looking for a new religion columnist. Any takers? ORIGINAL:Paul says the protest is OFF as a result of their meeting with Mark Driscoll (read…

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Emerging church Papers

– Another paper on the Jesus movement and emerging church. This time by Anthony Stiff. [heres the PDF] – Brett Kunkle’s PDF “Essential Concerns Regarding the Emerging Church”. Roger Overton has a summary and Tony Jones has responded to Brett. – Marc Van der Woude has a collection of articles and blog posts.

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Emerging Church Timeline

The last 20 years have been a wild and interesting ride for the emerging church in UK. Louis Krog is putting together a timeline and story website called Intelligent History. It would help him [and us] out if you submit some stories. As for me, I have been in the UK for less than 3…

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World Aids Day December 1

World Aids Day today. i recently learned of another school friend who died of AIDS. There are probably many more. Everyone has been affected in some way by AIDS. Some other ways to stop AIDS that don’t get a mention on the website: – Don’t cheat on your spouse. – Pray for healing for this…

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