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 ...

January 5th 2009
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iPhone EDGE users getting hosed?

AT&T screwing its EDGE iPhone users? | 9 to 5 Mac.   When I was in the Shoals area visiting over the holidays, I did notice that EDGE was way slower there than I remember it being when I was having to use it when I had the original iPhone. I could ...
January 3rd 2009
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Winter Geocaching

Scenes from around the Wolf River as we were out geocaching yesterday: [gallery] Because of the great weather we've had over the break, I've had the chance to get in some geocache hunts. Today we hit a couple of the easier park and grab ones while out for lunch, but the main ...
January 2nd 2009
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Great Stuff from the App Store

It's amazing how many apps are released in 1 week for the iPhone. Since the App Store was launched, I've followed the RSS feed from PinchMedia that lists all the apps that get added, and there are easily 500 per week. Most are useless, or lousy, but out of 500 ...
December 31st 2008
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Weightbot for iPhone

Click to Read: Lifehacker: Weightbot Tracks Your Weight with Pretty Graphs, Friendly Interface. Weightbot has been getting a lot of press here lately. I'll echo the praise, it's a great iPhone app to go along with all those New Year's Resolutions to lose weight. It's got an outstanding UI, really makes ...
December 28th 2008
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Hey Ladies - The Best Music of 2008

Why Hey Ladies? There's a significant trend this year with a record number of female voices in my choices for this year's mix—half of the songs. Last year, it was two. The other big trend was that this was the year of the male/female duo, most of them married couples. ...