Now what?

A mishmash of thoughts on religion, life, technology, and whatnot.
October 10th 2005
Tags: Emerging Church, The Door

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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 ...
August 6th 2005
Tags: The Door

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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 ...
July 27th 2005
Tags: Emerging Church, The Door

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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 ...
July 27th 2005
Tags: The Door

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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 ...
July 24th 2005
Tags: Emerging Church, The Door

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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
July 14th 2005
Tags: Emerging Church, The Door

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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 ...
June 26th 2005
Tags: Emerging Church, The Door

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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 ...
June 1st 2005
Tags: Emerging Church, The Door

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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 ...

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trying to follow Christ, husband of Jamie, father of Anna, a senior designer who does web and print work, an alumnus of the University of Alabama, interested in the emerging church, a Mac fan, a Camp Sumatanga junkie, a program coordinator for high school camps in the United Methodist Church, a music snob, a budding oenophile, too busy to update his resume/portfolio, debt-free*, a geek

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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 ...
February 15th 2010
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America has an Empire Problem

At its height, the Roman Empire had 47 major military bases scattered throughout the lands under its control. When the British were running their empire, they had 36 bases. What happened to these empires? The cost of maintaining them bankrupted them. They were unsustainable. We don't like to call ourselves an empire, ...
February 13th 2010
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Critical Success, Commercial Failure – Cops: Sumatanga

For the last few years, I've come up with a camp rules video for Summer camps. After a couple of years of milking the Turkey Vulture video (part two was never uploaded, I need to find that one), we stole a concept from another camp and went crazy with it. I ...
January 28th 2010
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Delusional Alabama Fans

From August 2007 MSNBC.com article Alabama gaga over overrated Saban: Crimson Tide pinning national title dreams on good — not great — coach by By Cary Estes The Crimson Tide went 6-7 last season and has not won a national championship in 15 years. Yet a number of Alabama fans truly ...
January 27th 2010
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A Landmark Day in Technology?

I love how some people are mocking the Apple tablet buildup, point out that Microsoft has had tablets out for years. Yes, and there were mp3 players before the iPod, but which one is considering the ultimate version of the technology that caused it to take root? And there were smartphones before ...

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