Listening to Larry and Barry

Debbie and I had dinner with some friends last night. Les and Fiona Cowan have a great retro Christian record album including the full range of Larry Norman and a few Randy Stonehill and Barry McGuire records. Cool! I heard Barry when i was 11 years old and got to meet him a few years…

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Spiritual Pilgrimage Online

UPDATE: ahhhhh. . . . how rude of me to get this introduction soooo wrong. Heidi just arrived. And its Dr Heidi Campbell, having completed her PhD on internet community and theology in 2002. She now teaches new media and religion at A & M in Texas. Its her second time in Orkney and she…

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Folding Organs for Mission Work

I bought about 65 old theological books today from Scapa Books which is going out of business. They will be added to the library of Suddenly Seminary. I scored a few more hymbooks from Sankey = not sure of the age but the advertisement on the back cover is worth blogging.

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Amazing Grace released in UK

Quite a serious buzz in London about the movie Amazing Grace. I saw it all over the buses during my time here, as my little video clip below will show. Hope it does well. Technorati Tags: amazing grace

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In London

In London again. Meetings all day. I have a cold and my body hurts. But its sunny.

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Fellowship Reimagined

A few of us are learning what “fellowship” means and are putting it into practice. It started a month ago when my wife told me a few people in our community wanted to go in with us in buying shares in a cow. I said, “Thats what ‘fellowship’ means. It means to have half shares…

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Emerging Church Portugal

The Portuguese crowd had a conference last weekend which went really well. Barbara, who i have mentioned before, is raising money for some land near Lisbon where many of them will live in community and have a base for ministry around Europe and among street kids in the cities. Some of us are putting a…

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The Future of the Emerging Church

Insightful article on Out of Ur called “The Future of the Emerging Church: Are we experiencing the next reformation of Christianity?”. Phyllis Tickle discusses the 500 year cycles that change the world and suggests that we might be building a post-protestant model that could last 500 years. Technorati Tags: emerging church

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London for a few days

I will be in London for a few days (Tuesday to Thursday) to discuss missional cells with CMS. We are getting ready to launch a number of initiatives and we need to get on the same page. We are still very interested in mapping out new churches and new movements and finding ways to support…

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North Wind

Huge wind last weekend and its still blowing and snowing right now. Our friend’s caravan was damaged beyond repair, despite being tied down. We lost one of our windows that got sucked out and blown away. I will be climbing on the roof later today to put another pane of glass up. Its an old…

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Mark DeVine on Emerging Church and Southern Baptist

Dr Mark DeVine has released a paper called “Fast Friends or Future Foes: The Emerging Church and Southern Baptists”. Good thoughts and well written. Not too many examples of emerging church movements within the Southern Baptist Church but maybe Mark will write more on that another time. Speaking of Southern Baptists, I am speaking three…

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Paul Hiebert Passes

UPDATE: An email was sent to me informing me of Paul Hiebert’s death on March 11. Thanks Linda. He was a great man and will be missed. I dont think I ever met him personally, despite studying at Fuller SWM. “The Rev. Dr. Paul G. Hiebert, missiologist and missionary to India, has died of cancer…

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Michael Frost: Unless a Seed Falls

I had to endure 6 audio sessions of Michael Frost. This is part of the required preparation for a camp I am teaching at in a few weeks for American IMB missionaries in UK. Frosty is a Baptist teacher that i met down in Sydney in 2002, when he invited me to speak to a…

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Bloggedyblog is no more

After 5 fantastic years of blogging, Andrew Careaga has closed down his original blog – BloggedyBlog. He will still podcast his views of music and spirituality through his BloggedyPod site. Andrew also authored a few good books on ministry through the internet – e-vangelism and e-Ministry.

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Lancaster: Emerging Church to Blame for Lent Observance

It seems a lot of us are observing Lent right now. I am not drinking caffeine and my kids have given up chocolate and sweets. During this time, I have discovered “FEAST DAYS”, those 6 occasions, normally falling on a Sunday, that allow for breaking the rules and scoffing whatever food or drink one is…

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Movies that make money . .

. . . generally have a Christian worldview, according to the findings of a 9 year study. These movies make far more money than those with explicit language and nudity. Check it out on Ric’s blog. I remember Michael Medved saying something very similar many years ago.

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Bono in the Pulpit

“God, my friends, is with the poor and God is with us if we are with them.” Bono, NAACP acceptance speech [Youtube]. We are staying at home today and doing alternative worship, alternative fellowship kinda stuff. A few young people stayed over last night. For our special meal later today [i like the word “love…

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Ars Nova and New Media Worship

“The current worship transition from old media to new media is as radical as, and in some ways similar to, the shift from “Ars Antiqua” to “Ars Nova”. From around 1300 AD, church music broke away from simple Gregorian-type chants into chords, polyphonic masses and harmonies that were not constrained by parallel movements of the…

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The Prayer of Jael

Featured Post: May 14th.2010 Jael, that famous hammer-whacking woman of the Bible, made it into #twible yesterday on my Twitter feed, unlike Eglon's stomach fat which got cut out [Jana apologized to me] so I thought it appropriate to re-post my thoughts on what Jael might have prayed. Original Post: Jael and Sisera turned up…

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