An Emerging Church in Lancaster City
We are planning to hold a few sacred worship services and observances for Holy Week 2008 in Lancaster City. As most of my readers know, I’m part of a young church planting team in Lancaster, PA. The plant is called Inner Metro Green. Ours is an emerging church, absolutely dedicated to simplicity and missional living in our context. We are equally focused upon Sunday morning and incarnational house churches. We are dedicated to our city and her transformation. Everyone - and we do mean everyone - is welcome to join us as we all journey and grow spiritually together. So, if you are in Lancaster, and are looking for an emerging-missional church community with whom you can share Holy Week celebrations, you are welcome to share it with us! Read More »
An Authority Recreated in Gentleness is Peace
Matthew 11:27 “All things have been handed over to me by my Father, and no one knows the Son except the Father, and no one knows the Father except the Son and anyone to whom the Son chooses to reveal him. 28 Come to me, all who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. 29 Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. 30 For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.” Read More »
The Contemporary Relevance of the Anabaptist Faith 5
The following commentary addresses the fifth point as advanced by Myron S. Augsburger in “The Contemporary Relevance of the Anabaptist Faith” (Brethren in Christ History and Life, August 2000), which is: “Emphasizing Kingdom Community as a Third Way in Life.” Read More »
The Reason for God by Tim Keller
The Reason for God by Tim Keller. It looks like a great and timely book! I’ll be picking it up soon. Got it!
Switching Religious Affiliation
“Americans are switching religious affiliation in ever-greater numbers or abandoning ties to organized denominations altogether, and Protestants are on the cusp of becoming a minority, according to a survey released Monday,” according to the LA Times.
A 10-Day Cleanse and Detoxification Program
I have been inspired. I have been inspired not to preach or write, but to eat ethically and live healthily. I have been inspired by the gruesome and cruel images contained in a video showing ill creatures being abused in an inhumane attempt to usher them into the slaughter house. I’m not sure which is worse: treating sick but living creatures so awfully, or the simple but sickening thought of buying and eating diseased slaughter. The slaughter, packaging, and selling of diseased animals must happen all the time; the Hallmark Meat Packing Company in Chino, California just happened to get caught this time. Read More »
Date Farmer’s Barack Obama Poster
Swallowtail Caterpillars By Intelligent Design
Young Swallowtail Caterpillars, in a display of incredibly intelligent design and adaptation, disguise themselves as bird droppings and copies of green leafs. The early bird will have to wake much, much earlier to catch a Swallowtail Caterpillar!
A Cache of Great Christian Blogs
If you haven’t discovered The Daily Scribe yet, be sure to click over and check it out! There you will find a cache of really great Christian blogs. Each writer represented offers a fine-tuned, unique, and challenging expression of their Christian faith. Do check it out!
