Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Calvary Chapel, church, deceived, heresy, leadership, Purpose Driven, purpose driven life, Ray Yungen, Warren Smith, Xavier Ries on July 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
There will be a leadership conference with online access for listening.
Here’s the link:
http://www.calvarychapeljoco.com/index2.htm
P.A.L. (Pastor’s and Leader’s) Conference
Location: Calvary Chapel Johnson County
Dates: Thursday, August 7th, 6:30-9:00pm
Friday, August 8th, 8am-8pm, with breakfast, lunch, and dinner
Saturday, August 9th, 7am-1pm, with breakfast and lunch
Sunday June 10th, 10am Service
Speaker & Author: Ray Yungen ‘A Time of Departing’
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I realize leaving our church would seem the right thing to do given we have children. We have enough children that we cannot be in all their classes. However, we can be involved with the ones that are younger while training the older ones in discernment. We have decided to not have our children in [...]
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Metanarrative, God’s Story, Your Story, emergent, emerging, missional (and I REALLY like missions but recognize this phrase now as used too often to mean something else), our faith journey, bible police, authenticity, plugged in (okay, this can be used anywhere to mean getting involved, but I’m sick of it), small group (whatever happened to bible [...]
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Posted in Uncategorized, tagged agenda, aids, environment, human rights, issues, mccain, national stage, obama, politics, poverty, saddleback, warrenties on July 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Rick Warren’s Saddleback church will be hosting a forum between Obama and McCain mid-August. I’m on an email list from FRC Action which reports the ” ‘main areas of focus’-AIDS, poverty, human rights and the environment.” Huh, not gay marriage, not abortion, not faith based initiatives, not abstinence education? I agree, we should care about those [...]
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Posted in Uncategorized, tagged 40 Days of Purpose, focus, not about me, pastor, purpose, Purpose Driven, sick, turn your eyes upon Jesus, UGH, Warrenites on July 15, 2008 | 12 Comments »
Heard another pastor on the radio this week, and he was speaking about having a “purpose driven life.” Ugh. You know what, I am about sick of this theme! I think it’s all backwards. Instead of trying to figure out our gifts, plug in to a small group, and figure out God’s purpose for us [...]
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It’s a race across America, a prize awaits at the end. You have trained for this race, others have more preparation ahead of time, and all have the same destination but some have started closer to the end. This is not seen as a bad thing, it’s just to be expected in the race. You [...]
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Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Christianity, church, emergent, fruit, fruit of the spirit, mysticism, self feeders, silence, small groups, thirsty, works on July 9, 2008 | 2 Comments »
I think people would say numbers at church are good, that this might be a fruit of labor. Also, it might be programs, yes, our church has many programs to meet the needs. It might also be how much outreach we do. If we’re in India, Mexico, New Orleans, Africa, and in the other regions [...]
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Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Brian McLaren, church, emergent, emergent youth, emerging, grief, i love my church, living in an emergent church, loss, Rick Warren on July 9, 2008 | 6 Comments »
A few things are very difficult in this time as our family looks into the shift our church. First of all, there’s the grief because ministers and people we love are buying this. Though I did have some things bother me, and I recall having a few crystal clear moments of “what the heck is [...]
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Our church has planted several churches, a few in our local area and some overseas. I have noticed that some of the people leaving our church just go to one of the church plants. We attended one of them yesterday partially because we were running late and it is closer to our home. It’s also [...]
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Posted in Uncategorized, tagged church, emergent, emerging, error, Hybels, Mclaren, missional, money, saddleback, spiritual formation, transformation, willow creek on July 4, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Every time we have a campaign in our church to go through another book, each person in the small groups buys a book. If we cannot afford a book, someone else will buy it for us. Most of these campaigns are for the teaching impaired, and therefore, there has to be a DVD purchased for [...]
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