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Read MoreGiving our children a happy place
So this afternoon we interviewed Ajith Fernando, well known minister and Director of Youth for Christ in Sri Lanka for over 30 years. I was in Prague today and I didnt have my watch but I suspected I was running LATE and I had to walk up a really STEEP HILL with my backpack STUFFED with…
Read MoreInterviewing Ajith Fernando today
Today I am interviewing Ajith Fernando on Skype along with a few other Lausanne Bloggers. Ajith is a spiritual leader in Sri Lanka and I have quoted him before in some of my articles. We were both part of the Christian Vision Project a few years ago. I will ask him some questions about what…
Read MoreWater for Pilgrims (Blog a Koran Day)
Today is September 11 and as I promised, I am blogging a verse from the Koran which I hope will help create understanding and respect between Muslims and Christians. List of Bloggers for Blog A Koran Day: Relirel Randy Olds HarrysTravels Jeremy at HackingChristianity Paul Berthe Scot Andrew Parle Joel Brian Eddie Gonzalez Wolfgang Fernandez…
Read MoreBlog A Koran Day [Sep 11]
Hey bloggers! Join me on September 11 to BLOG A KORAN and help me create some understanding with our Muslim neighbors. I think what Terry Jones is doing by suggesting a Burn The Koran Day is ABSOLUTELY AWFUL and SHAMEFUL and HARMFUL to Christians overseas. In that last category I include myself and my family…
Read MoreTallskinnykiwi in North America: Rough Schedule
The schedule is taking shape for us in USA/Canada starting in a few weeks. A lot of you are asking me about coming to speak or having a party with the family and friends, etc. Fantastic. Its gonna be a great tour and we look forward to seeing you F2F. Here’s how it looks right…
Read MoreThe Nines is upon us. Speaker List here.
The Nines Conference happens on the 9th. Should be a fun day. Hope your partner doesn't yell at you for spending too much time on the computer. But hey – 100 speakers, 6 minutes each. That's a lot of eyeballing. Here's the order of speakers so you can organize your toilet breaks. Hey – there's…
Read More5 Christian T-shirts you won’t see in the Bible Belt
I saw a few T-shirts at the European Christian festivals this year that will probably never make it to the Bible belt of America. Here are 5 of them:1. Alles geht in Arsch. Jesus bleibt A rough German translation, and you will have to excuse my awful almost non-existent German, is . . . …
Read MoreMy birthday today
Yes its my birthday today and I am taking it slow. The family is making dinner tonight and I will have an apple strudel instead of a cake (I dont like cakes . . too dry) because we are in GERMANY right now. About a hundred Facebook messages saying “Happy Birthday”. Thanks everyone. Thats a…
Read MoreThe Skinny on Hipster Christianity
There’s a video on Facebook making the rounds called Hipster Church Movement: The Lisbon – New Delhi Connection. Its uncool and unhip in a hilarious way. Especially the dancing cat and the WWJD t-shirt. The video is made my two good friends of mine and I know their stories quite well so here is a…
Read More5 Game Changers that didnt make my video for The Nines
On Sep 9 you can watch my video and ridicule it via Twitter at the Nines Online Conference. I chose just a single “game changer” in my ministry to focus on . . which one I will not reveal just yet. But there were many other game changers, strategic moves, decisions, mid-way corrections, that didn’t…
Read MoreWe are coming to USA: Need your help!
Big news! Our family is returning to USA for a coast to coast tour, starting late September in New York and going down, then westward through Texas, up to Oregon and down the West Coast. Why now? Well, it is kinda sudden, isn’t it? One of the biggest reasons is because we were denied a…
Read MoreHow Many People Attended the ‘Restoring Honor’ Rally?
Thousands of people gathering around a large vertical object to discuss plans of posterity. NO, I am not talking about the Tower of Babel. I’m talking about Glenn Beck’s Restoring Honor rally at Washington DC last weekend. The event was described as a “church picnic with a buzz” and the “Waterworld of white self-pity”. The…
Read MoreThe People Formerly Known as the Congregation
A 2007 blog post from Bill Kinnon impacts one homeschooling mother who brings it back to life for the St Louis Post-Dispatch in a post entitled Giving Thanks for the Emerging Church. This quote from Bill’s post, called The People Formerly Known as The Congregation, struck me as being powerful. “We grew weary from your…
Read MoreThe Theology of Dr Seuss
A blog post on The Sneetches made me think of Dr Seuss’s books and the theology behind it. I left this comment on the blog: “I love Dr Seuss. The first sermon I ever preached at one of the churches I pastored [North Beach Baptist Church, Perth, West Australia] started with a reading from Green…
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