Now what?

A mishmash of thoughts on religion, life, technology, and whatnot.

I need a vacation

I'm sort of at a strange place right now. Work is good, but unrelenting since the start of August. I've worked quite a few nights and weekends since August and stand to do a few more before this year is done. I have 2 magazines to layout this month, and ...

Love Feast

My latest announcements loop promo movie to run at Heartsong on Sunday morning promoting the Door. (wow, was that ever a bad sentence). The Door - Love Feast This week we're exploring the tradition of a Love Feast or an Agape Meal, a concept that I wasn't really familiar with. Was something ...

The Door – Who Do You Say I Am?

As promised, here is the flowsheet from last night's Door: Who Do You Say I Am (PDF) It was a bit heavy on reading and light on ritual. If I were to change anything it might be to make the stations be more visual metaphors of scriptures, but this was one of ...

The Door opens a little further

At last night's Door service we had quite a few people show up. The summer has been hard on us, to the point where we started to get discouraged, but then all of a sudden last night we had several people come. It was rejuvenating. Given the morale of some ...

Dooresque – Take Back Time

Craig Mitchell in Australia is a kindred spirit. He blogged about a service they recently did that is in the vein of what we're trying to do with The Door. Some good resources and ideas on his blog to pull from. Check out his recap of Take Back Time

The Door: Relistening to the Prodigal Story

A few weeks ago we did a service based around a great sermon I found on Steve Taylor's blog: Emergent Kiwi. The sermon was a more in-depth re-telling of the story of the prodigal son. For our service, I rewrote a few bits of it to make ...

I got the message

Today was kind of strange. I figured my next entry would be about camp but I had such a strange experience this morning, camp will have to wait. The church we go to on Sunday mornings has moved to a new location. Last time we went, it really felt odd. Ever ...

The Door – Spirit

One of the things I most enjoy about the blogdom in the emerging church is the sharing of resources. I have found all kinds of great ideas from other people's blogs. So, in the interest of giving back to blogdom, just in case someone is actually reading this who cares ...

May 27th 2010
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Apple Passes Microsoft

The New York Times posted a graph showing the stock price of Apple and Microsoft over the last 20 years. It was announced a couple of days ago that Apple's market capitalization put it ahead of Microsoft, making it America's largest tech company. I've been an Apple fan since our Elementary school ...
May 5th 2010
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The single best month for music….ever?

There's a lot of good music out this month, there's more good stuff coming out this month than usually comes out in a year. They say that in economic downturns, creativity goes up. Maybe that's what's going on, regardless... I'm listening to all of this stuff: I didn't count MGMT's new ...
April 18th 2010
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The iPad After 2 Weeks

So, it's been couple of weeks, and I've gotten used to using the iPad, and I'm addict to it. I purposely set out to only uses my iPad for home tasks when possible for the first few days. After the first couple of days of that, I don't reach for my ...
April 6th 2010
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The iPad After a Few Days

My impressions of the iPad after a couple of days of using it. First off, this thing is a little heavier than it should be. I wouldn't mind having just one battery, with the ability to add on our snap in the additional battery. I think the limitation of only having ...
February 23rd 2010
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Ron Paul 2012?

I think that the neoconservative pundits underestimated the Ron Paul Revolution's staying power. Over the weekend, while I was working at a retreat, I walked in front of a tv screen and was pleasantly surprised to see that Dr. Paul won the CPAC straw poll. Immediately, the neocons in the Hannity and ...