I can’t believe its been this long since my last post and last podcast. However, be brave you faithful, I’m leading an event on Becoming a Digital Missionary at St. Mark’s Lutheran Church in Bowling Green at 12:45PM. Its a day long event called CrossTraining where people from congregations around our synod share their gifts […]
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I recently received via Twitter from Leonard Sweet – an post about a Baptist professor who teaches at Oxford who is arguing for a sacramental theology for Second Life. The heart of the arguments seems to be that if one can worship virtually one should be able to received the sacraments virtually. I’m not sure […]
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Here is a new podcast I’ved called I AM, We Are – play on the the Hebrew name of of God and the nature of being a discipling community, the Church. I begin with my recent confirmation camp experience, painting a picture of the faith journey of millenials out of an exercise one of the […]
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Nothing like pacing one’s podcasts. This one is about a great podcast mediocre sound quality called Napkin Scribbles with Len Sweet. Len is often called a church futurist, prophet, or, if you like the status quo of living in a church of the 1950s, a pain in the butt. Although we have only met a […]
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Lately I have given a great deal of thought to the state of Christian music. There seems to still be the ongoing split between “traditional” and “contemporary”, although its mostly in existing congregations. The battle is largely over in new church starts, where its band over organ from day one. The problem seems to that […]
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After a week of rest and coaching down in Florida, here’s a brand new podcast for the new year. Every notice the culture shift that takes place when you walk into Disney. There’s an attitude that everyone shares that helps make it “the happiest place on earth.” Now consider the culture shift that takes place […]
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Chicago is buzzing over the abrupt announcement by controversial sportswriter Jay Marriotti that he is leaving the Chicago Sun-Times because the newspaper business is dead and doesn’t want to go down with the ship. While there is a little more to the whole thing, I think his observation of the Olympics coverage was telling. The […]
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One part of my wired wanderings that I have come to appreciate are the people who take the time to explore wired jesus to learn more about the postmodern journey of faith and my take on it. This includes some saavy call committees who have come here to get a better idea about who I […]
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Yesterday I was supply preaching at a church in Aurora, IL, a far west suburb of Chicago and the Gospel for the day was the call of Matthew to be a disciple of Jesus. Now this was a fairly traditional congregation but good folks that I enjoyed worshipping with but I would have liked to […]
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Had this podcast ready a week ago but didn’t have time to get it posted. If you haven’t had a chance to play on a Wii, you are in for a surprising treat… even if you can’t blow anything up. What I found this past Easter is that the Wii may be an emerging venue […]
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